2011 Nashville, TN Half Marathon

This weekend has been great! We made it to Nashville in 8 hours and talked the whole way...I don't know about Keisha but my throat was sore in the car from all the talking! LOL We just had a lot of catching up to do since we don't get to spend that much time together. This weekend has been a total success! The town of Nashville has been awesome and the people are so nice! Our condo was very centrally located (in the Enclave Condos right off 440) so it made it easy to get to the mall, dinners, the race, etc...all within 15 minutes from our condo...the traffic was a little heavier than we expected...but overall it was a great trip!

We got here Thursday, did a little shopping (for the kids of course), went to dinner at Cantina Laredo, got our race packets and relaxed at the condo while watching The Town. Friday we drove around a bit, went shopping (again for the kids...I see a trend here) and then met our friend Stephenie who now lives in the Nashville area (about 45 minutes from downtown Nashville) in Franklin for lunch at Genghi's Grill.

Friday night we wanted to chill since we had to get up at 4 am to leave the condo at 5 to catch a shuttle from the LP Field parking lot to the start of the race. So we got dinner at Panera Bread - a light, easy dinner since we didn't want our tummy's upset for the big run, watched the movie Taken and went to bed early. This was the biggest race I've ever been in so the crowd was a little more than we expected.

These are pics of us before the race.

This is a picture I took looking back at all the runners behind us! Crazy!

21,944 people participated overall!

And after the race...WE DID IT!

My stats:
13.1 miles in 2 hours, 21 minutes and 57 seconds!

We stayed together until mile 9 when Keisha's knee started really hurting so she told me to run ahead. That's when my competitiveness really kicked in so I bumped up the speed a bit for the last 4 miles. Probably why my knees hurt that night!
After the race we had massages and pedicures and then had a celebration dinner at Maggiano's!

I felt great during the race, but that night my knees felt like a crippled 90 year old woman! LOL Luckily the next day they were fine. My muscles were a little sore but overall my body recovered great for running 2 more miles than I had ever ran before! (my longest run to date was 11 miles the weekend before the race)

Sunday we got up picked up the condo (washed the sheets, towels, etc.) so Keisha's friend Lisa would not have to have someone come in and clean after our stay. She let us stay there for free so it was the least we could do! We left the condo around 9:30 a.m. drove through some rain on and off and made it home at 5:30 p.m.. The best part of the drive home was Keisha and I listened (and sang) to some old school songs like...Salt-N-Pepa's Whatta Man, Jay Z's Big Pimpin and Can I Get A..., J Lo's I'm Real, My Love Don't Cost a Thing, and Get Right as well as Mase' Feel So Good. That reminded us of our 'pre-kid' days of Panama City spring break trips! Good times...good times for sure!