By Cool J in Minneapolis
Hello from Kalamazoo! LL and I are here to run a half marathon tomorrow. Hopefully our dad will be running too, although he has been having some IT band issues (like father, like daughter I guess!) He isn’t sure if he’s going to do the 13.1 miles but if he does, LL will be sticking with him for the run. I don’t want him to hurt himself further, but I know this is something he really wants to do. Fingers crossed all goes well tomorrow!
LL and I arrived pretty late last night, so we were all happy to sleep in this morning. Eventually we got up and went for a short shakeout run in the neighborhood:
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Eventually we made our way to the race expo. It was held at the Kings Stadium (a minor league hockey team?).
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Tomorrow’s event includes a full marathon and a 5k, as well as the half marathon that we are registered to run. This is actually the first time that I have done a half marathon that is part of a full marathon event. It will be a nice change to be one of the runners turning around on the course a little early!
The full marathon starts at 8 am from the Borgess Hospital, and the half marathon starts 20 minutes later on a similar course.
Apparently, a decent number of full marathoners “earn their mittens” by running the Kenosha, Wisconsin marathon today and the Kalamazoo marathon tomorrow. Hardcore!
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The forecast is looking very favorable for us. In fact, today the sun was shining and the grass was so green! What a pleasant change from Minneapolis!
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After a relaxing day catching up with the family, we cooked up some light pasta with zucchinis and tomatoes,
…and then watched a little TV before heading to bed.
Good luck to all the runners tomorrow, wherever you’re running!