My Magical Miles

    Happy run-iversery yet again as I start my FIFTH!!! Race season (even though technically this is already going to be my second AND THIRD races of 2019) So last year I made a big deal about how this was my first year doing the actual 5K instead of the Kashi Walk however this year I stepped up my game even farther as back in May after coming off of back to back race mornings with Star Wars Dark Side I decided to kick it up a notch and sign up for one of the Challenge events…. I chose to do the Lime Cactus Challenge which is doing the 15K Saturday morning and the 8K Sunday morning…. this would be my first time doing both these distances in a timed race event and my first time running longer then 6.2 ish miles outside of the treadmill…. So, I did a quick 5-hour shift on Friday night and then it was off toward Tampa for the Expo once again. This Expo is supposed to set the tone and get you all amped up however the tone it set made me think that this weekend was going to be a ho...

  So last year through internal emails at my moms work she had heard of a small 5K that was being run as a fund raiser of a neighboring Elementary school and so I signed up.... it was really low key and chill but hey...I somehow had managed to make it a PR (it was a non timed race so a PR by fitbit tracking standards) Again it was rather no frills at the staging area where they had a table for pre-registered runners and day of sign ups and I was rather impressed to see that this year they gave out a long sleeve technical shirt instead of the cotton t-shirt from last year....maybe all but a handful of runners were wearing the race shirt but I decided to rely on my Disgust RunDisney shirt (where I received a few complements) and a pair of LIVI leggings with a mesh skirt attached paired with my grey Fresh Foam Ashari's and my black sparkle headband (I kind of want to do OOTD's for my runs this year lol) unlike with last year they just had some music blasting (though I was zenning ...