Saturday morning I felt a lot better and my mood improved, maybe there was hope that I would actually go and breathe the air of the half marathon and support my friends and family who were participating in the event.
Before we left the house we noticed that I had not registered Ferit or Sibel yet, ooppss. The last couple of weeks had been such a turmoil that I had left the registration to the last moment and then totally forgot about it. My friend Mary Ann who was also doing the event had called and told us that there still was onsite registration. A major crisis was avoided. Can you imagine that after training for a half marathon logging those grueling miles you are told that the race was closed and because someone forgot to register you, you could not race ?
We left towards noon and picked up Z and P and arrived at the expo which was held at the Morocco Shrine at Jacksonville around 2 pm without getting lost (oh yeah we had a gps and mapquest directions.. but leave it up to me and I go in circles within 1 miles to my destination- I was the copilot responsible for naviation so there was ww3 in the car of course ) My daughter Sibel was driving from Gainsville with 3 of her friends. We met there with them and my sil and bil. The expo was nice but I somehow was expecting a lot more vendors, I picked up a pink ribbon bumper decal saying 'cancer sucks' and a pair of running glasses.. The race shirts were technical long sleeved, very cool !
We also got a lot of other goodies, the book written by Donna Hicken(who is the organizer of this race) The Good Fight, which was about her second bout with Breast Cancer., and the most delicious brownie that I ever tasted !!! Butters Brownies !! www.buttersbrownies.com I think those brownies started their lives as fudges but at the last minute decided to be brownies, but did not quite succeed ! I would not suggest looking at the nutrition facts though.
Went to the hotel to check in and then went to drive the race course, there were 2 climbs(overpasses) and then just before the 1/2 marathon turnaround the run was on sand which seemed pretty hard packed.
Was delayed to get to a restaurant we were not even able to reach the hostess table to ask the wait time at Carabbas, just as we were getting desperate we spotted Sweet Tomatoes and had our dinner there.
Went back to the hotel and I tried to give some tips/advise to the first timers. chatted a bit then went to bed around 11. Took 2 benadryls to knock me out I definitely was feeling better by now and pumped up and ready to support the crew the next morning !
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