Sunday November 3 2019
Becca and I flew to Kansas City, MO after work on the Friday, Ubered to Meg and Jeff’s in Lawrence and got to bed late. Meg and a friend were running the half with me, so the next day we went to packet pick up in the town’s nice little running store, then spent the day at the KU vs KSU college football game. We tailgated and had tickets for the game. We still got an early night then got up early on the Sunday to head to the race downtown, the Lawrence Half Marathon.
It was cold. I left my long sleeve at the start and ran in my free race shirt – which I discarded half way once I was running hot. There were a few hills, and we ran on some gravel on the sea bank. A frustrating wrong turn at the unmanned junction right at 12 miles meant I ended up running a little under 15 miles (!) in 1.43. My 13.1 was in 1.31, which would have been 5th in my age group. Annoying but not to worry. We had a nice Brunch with Meg’s friends after, and headed back to KC in Jeff’s self driving Tesla to fly home.
Crossing the finish line, frustrated after getting lost! –
Racing Americana 