arg!!

i am training for the country music half-marathon in nashville (less than a month away now!). excitement is brewing as i see the distances i run go up and my weight go down - i've lost 14 lbs since christmas :D

part of the training is to participate in smaller distance races a couple of times before the big race, to kind of see how you do in the race environment. i did a 5k in january in -2 deg windchill. it was fun; there was snow on the ground, it wasn't currently snowing.

today is the shamrock shuffle. it's an 8k (5 miles) and the longest race i would have run before the half. 32,000 people signed up. it's a huge and fun deal.

but i woke up this morning and there is a freakin' blizzard outside! it's march 29th! arg, this would never happen in atlanta. the silver lining is that the next few days, the temperature will be high enough to melt all the snow quickly. i'm so done with winter...

** update, only about 13,000 people actually showed up to run. i don't feel so whimpy now.