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You’ve Got a Friend In Me (Springtime Surprise recap part 2)

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It’s time for race two of the Springtime Surprise challenge … the Monsters Inc 10k…. For today's Look Book entry I drew inspiration from Monsters University dressing as a Python Nu Kappa sorority girl. Skort & Top were sewn by pattern plus pink bondi band and zombies 3 branded pompoms purchased from Spirit Halloween. For this race as well as tomorrow I was on my own and once more I was up early overestimating how long it would take to ready myself and walk to the lobby. I left the room at 1:59 and arrived in the lobby at 2:07. I already had extra time to have my breakfast in my room and nursed my water while walking so I thought I'd try to refill it at the lobby water fountain. Even the residual Watermelon flavor couldn't mask the Florida Water taste. It looked like a bus had been outside once I came back from using the restroom however in the time I took to pin my bib it had been gone. I assume it must of been an airport bus as when I stepped outside a moment later the...

Life is a Highway (Springtime Surprise recap part one)

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Yes, you read that right I’m splitting my Springtime Surprise recap into two posts because 19.3 miles of magic plus Expo ups and downs would make for a wordy blog post especially without being able to make separate cuts to skip to a desired recap… The way I plan to break things up is for this post to be run the year progress, upcoming events, expo & 5k recaps with part two being 10k & 10 Miler recaps and my current PRs With that breakdown out of the way here is my RUN THE YEAR progress 690.55/2023 miles My current "step streak" is down to just one day as I took some recovery time after the challenge Upcoming races: 5/13: Mayfair 5K 6/10 watermelon 5k ⅞:watermelon 5k 8/12 watermelon 5k 11/3: Wine & Dine 5K 11/4: Wine & Dine 10k   So once again there was a VQ situation and once again my address is just outside the bubble. On our end we tried driving but as 8:30 was fast approaching my 5K companion who lived in the bubble was able to snag us group 44. When we pi...