My Magical Miles

  So last year I realized I never did a proper recap of one of the most problematic races I’ve done and yet I keep going back to like a bad relationship… Mayfaire… Don’t get me wrong I love running at dusk however at the same time this race just gives me so much anxiety as while they say it’s WALKER friendly being at a 14-15 minute mile like I’m at on an average day is too slow as there were only 56 finishers behind me 43 of those female and 3 in my age group a far cry from promise run aka my last PR which was a fairly similar course and yet out of my age group I finished in the top 1/3rd …. So, let me begin by saying for as strict as I was in moving while training for Dark Side I hadn’t been out running since Saturday of last week…plus I spent the week in constant fear that 1) it would rain again which I’ve still yet properly trained in the rain 2) it would be unbearably hot or 3) BOTH I DID get an email earlier in the week and I at first thought it was a heat advisory post and th...

  MAYFAIRE 2019: I SWEAR THAT EVERY YEAR I FINISH THIS RACE AND SCOFF THINKING THAT I MIGHT WANT TO SKIP IT THE FOLLOWING YEAR THOUGH WITH 2018 ADDING MEDALS AND THIS YEAR BEING AN ANNIVERSARY I KEEP COMING BACK THOUGH IDK IF SEA WORLD’S SESAME STREET RUN WAS A SUCCESS AND THEY MAKE IT AN ANNUAL EVENT ON MOTHERS DAY WEEKEND AND I KNOW ABOUT IT EARLY ENOUGH WHO KNOWS I MAY BE A CHILDLESS 36 YEAR OLD RUNNING IT BUT BACK TO MAYFAIRE…. Okay so I wasn’t as anxious about things this year (okay so when I arrived at the start line there was a birthday party ending in the parks picnic area and they were popping balloons and they sounded like gunshots) but it was HOT like my weather app saying it was 95 but feels like 98 HOT as I was leaving the house. I was smart though and dressed cool (in the Race Shirt was a white tech tank, my blue Fila tennis skort that I got way back for Wine and Dine 2016 and seriously wonder if there is a Fila outlet if they still make cute tennis skorts like these ...