Well, it’s almost show time!\u00a0 In a little over five hours my darling and I will board a redeye to Orlando for the Goofy Challenge on Saturday.\u00a0 Although my training didn’t quite go as I’d like (having been sidelined with illness and injury on a couple of occasions), I do feel ready for the race.<\/p>\n
While my ultimate goal is just to finish injury-free, of course I also have a couple of time goals in mind.\u00a0 For the half, I actually hope to PW (personal worst!) in order to keep my legs fresh for the full.\u00a0 So my goal is to keep it over 2 hours, 15 minutes.\u00a0 For the full, I’m hoping to beat my Medoc time of 5 hours, 11 minutes, and ideally I’ll finish between 4:25-4:40.\u00a0 It looks like we may get some rain, but that’s fine with me (warm Florida rain beats the cold, dreary drizzle Seattle gets this time of year).<\/p>\n
Of course, not knowing what the weather will do makes packing a bit of a challenge.\u00a0 I’ll be wearing running skirts both days, but have packed long and short-sleeved technical shirts depending on how hot it is.\u00a0 I actually bought a cute new running skirt for the trip, but since there was no way I could try it out beforehand (BRRR!), I’m going to rely on my tried-n-true zebra-print skort for the full (I am, however, taking a chance for the half by wearing my new black skort — from the same manufacturer as the zebra-print one — for the half).<\/p>\n
In case anyone is interested, you will be able to track me during each race by clicking here<\/a> for the half and here<\/a> for the full (you’ll be asked for your email address).\u00a0 I’ll be running under my “real” name, Elizabeth Rogers (hubby is Matt Hagen).\u00a0 We’re not bringing a computer with us, but rest assured you’ll get race reports as soon as possible (with pictures, natch).<\/p>\n Wish us luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, it’s almost show time!\u00a0 In a little over five hours my darling and I will board a redeye to Orlando for the Goofy Challenge on Saturday.\u00a0 Although my training didn’t quite go as I’d like (having been sidelined with illness and injury on a couple of occasions), I do feel ready for the race. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}