Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Nola Half Marathon RnR RR

Last Sunday was officially the first race of my race season: the New Orleans Rock n Roll Half Marathon. With no taper and being in over my head with IM training, I had minimal expectations. But at the same time, I had hopes of dropping my some time off my PR. Despite going out way too hard and suffering through the last 3 miles, I was pleasantly surprised as I crossed the finish line over a minute faster than my PR. Official time 1:33:31. 


Without going too much into a long over detailed race report, I will share a few of my random favorite things from the weekend:

1. Ladies these are the coolest headbands ever! They make any bad hair day go away instantly and also make a quick transition post workout to work etc.... I can't tell you how many compliments I've received after just wearing them for the past week. 


 2. This is officially the best race sign ever! Although it wasn't until last week that I saw the you tube video on this one, this sign made me laugh out loud. Check out the video if you haven't yet already.
 3. I know people like to dress up for marathons but this is officially the most coordinated race costume crowd I've ever seen:
4. And well..... this picture.... I'm simply at a loss of words. While watching the half marathoners finish, I NEVER in my life have seen so many people texting, talking, and taking photos while running! Don't get me wrong, I'm all about enjoying the experience. In fact, isn't that why we are all out there? But if you have time to TEXT, CHAT, UPDATE FACEBOOK, while you are running a race you ARE NOT GOING hard enough :) Nuff said!

16 comments:

  1. Congrats on your PR!! Great way to start the season!! :-)

    ReplyDelete
  2. way to go sister! smoking fast!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Congrats on the PR - that is awesome and super fast!!

    The honey badger sign is hilarious!!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Nice job - wish I did it again this year, I loved that race!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Congrats on the PR. WOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! :)

    ReplyDelete
  6. Nice race!! Though the first thing I noticed was that there's a guy in a Supergirl costume...It's kinda hilarious

    ReplyDelete
  7. Nice race and congrats on the PR!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Congratulations on a shiny new PR! (it matches your shiny new headbands - I LOVE those things! Functional AND cute!)

    ReplyDelete
  9. Congrats Heidi! Sounds like you had an awesome race!!

    ReplyDelete
  10. Wait, I thought from the pictures that there was a whole superhero theme to the race. Wow, that is some serious commitment.

    And not too shabby of a PR on your end either!

    ReplyDelete