Roadtrippin'

The time is finally here.
St Louis Roadtrip!

The top 5 reasons that I'm super excited:

1. FH time. I love my husband but I hardly get to see him enough. See also: there will never be enough. So I'm ridiculously excited about our 4 hour car ride together.

2. Blates! I'm meeting several new bloggers this weekend and hanging with some I already know. I'm beyond excited about this.

3. I'm gonna run a little race....this is not as exciting as #1 and #2.

4. I will finally have a 13.1 sticker for my car. This was a goal of mine for 2013....and since I haven't been doing great on some other goals (get skinny, get knocked up) I am happy to finally mark one off my list.

5. Out of town romance could equal bun in oven? Maybe. Cross your fingers cause nothing says romance like a hotel room.

Top 5 things that are stressing me out:

1. FH is sick-ish. Hopefully he will shake it off soon.

2. I have to work today, an entire day without leaving early. This is difficult for me on any given Friday, but really really difficult for me when a roadtrip is waiting.

3. I packed everything I own but I'm still afraid I forgot something. If I accidentally on purpose forget my tennis shoes do I get out of the race?

4. The race is super early. Which means that we have to be up super early which means we can't stay up late Saturday night. Vacations should not have bedtimes. Period.

5. I'm not going to want to leave on Sunday....there may or may not be a person sitting at my desk come Monday morning.

I'm still in denial that I'm actually running 13 miles on Sunday.
No big deal.

When I signed up for the half, I calculated my time and realized that I had to run a 14 minute mile in order to finish before the time limit of 3 hours. {I'm not sure if there is a time limit on this race, but I know some of them have it and I would DIE of embarassment if I finished after the time was up.}

I remember texting my BFF and telling her that I just have to average 14 minutes, I think I can do that.
This shows you how long I have been running.
Not. Very. Long.
Well, I've been running forever. But not consistently. And not long distances. And obvs not very fast.

Since then, I have gotten to about an average of a 10-ish minute mile.
I know this isn't super fast for many of you, but I'm okay with it.
My goal is to finish, and not die.
Honestly, I would like to finish in about 2 & 1/2 hours.
But seeing as how I haven't ran in like 3 or 4 weeks, I have no clue how I will do.
I'm also super competitive so I might just kill myself trying to finish.
I can run another half one day and then I will worry about time.
But for this one, I just want to be able to say I finished.

Make sure you follow me on Instagram (@MrsLoYoung) to get a ridiculous amount of updates. Twitter is not normally my jam, but you can follow me there too since most of my IG stuff goes on there. Same username.

I will probably be taking a nap around about mile 6 so I will have a few minutes to update my social media. And then, if my time is crappy, I can blame it on my nap and my social media addiction. I might even throw in a bathroom break just so I have plenty of excuses.

If anyone lives in or near StL and knows a shortcut for the race, please let me know. Holly and I will be looking to jump a fence or two. And because of that, I will leave you with this comment that Holly left me regarding the race....it has given me nightmares ever since.

 ........And not to scare you before Sunday, but there is a three mile HILL.

Who's excited?!

Happy Fun Friday!!!!

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