Daylight savings weekend!

Daylight savings weekend is upon us! It autumn so we fall back and gain an hour; thank you, Lord.

Saturday agenda-race!

These are the races on my schedule today:

1. rnr Savannah marathon & half
2. club med 5k/10k
3. royal Caribbean 5k cruise
4. cca 5k
5. fragile X 5k

Rule out any events outside of FL; 1 & 3. #2 was the furthest within the state; strike 2. I like #4 but decided on proximity so there you are.

Although this was the first time I heard about it, it was advertised as the 4th annual walk/run. Apart from the wind, external conditions were good (cool) but sadly, internally, I was not. I turned out to be fragile, resulting in an X in the overall win category; I had to settle for 2nd best by 20 odd # of seconds. Granted, the course was twisty & turny, but this race was winnable by me but I let it get by like the Dolphins did in so many games they couldve, shouldve, would've won but didn't. Fortunately, I didn't lose out on prize money as there were none plus the plaques top 3 & master) were of the same size; age groupers got medals. Considering the time, I was blessed to get that honor. Post race was nice, especially for kids. Well, you know I'm a big kid so I did the climb.

Sunday agenda-race!

A lot more to choose from but can only do one:

a. NYC marathon
b. muddy buddy LA
c. paint the towne 5k (daytona)
d. sun capital half/5k
e. saluting veterans 5k
f. dolphins cycling challenge

Once again, rule out any events outside of FL; a & b. Next, the furthest, c. Strike out non-running events-f. I planned on e. but Tom, of Boca run club, was able to convince me to return to d., ignoring proximity (2nd furthest on my list of FL events).

With a bad taste in my mouth from the previous race, I came with the intent to redeem myself. Despite warmer weather & rolling hill course (yesterday was totally flat), this came to fruition. By the grace of God, for the first time ever there, I got the master title! Even though I (and all but the overall winner) got smoked by a woman, I shaved off nearly a minute & made the top ten  (5th) overall; another plaque to my collection. Back was the 5 star post race section, with fresh pancakes. I decided to do a tack on workout with George, since he kept talking about doing longer runs, by repeating the 5k at a slower tempo pace. I gotta keep doing that more often if I don't fit in enough halves or long runs.