Goodness, now that I think about it, I've been quite a few places. Nothing too exotic, mind you. But I have been to a LOT of random places. Why? Because of running. When in season we travel almost every weekend. This coming weekend will be my first weekend off of racing in a month. I'm SO happy for some R&R :) This past weekend we were able to go to New York, New York for a race at the Armory (a.k.a. a sweet track and facility devoted JUST for track and field. so cool :) ) We unfortunately don't really get to explore many of the places we travel because we are there to race. Luckily, we had a little extra time on our hands this trip and got to check a few things out. Here are a few (very few) pictures of what we did...
Sorry they are such bad quality. You now know why Nate is the photographer in our home...
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| Getting on the bus from the airport taking us to the Hotel. Me and Anna (and Brandy creepin in the background) |
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| It had already been a long day... had to wake up at 5:00 a.m..... |
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| Our first view of NY! On the bus en route to the Hilton. |
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| The Hilton lobby... sorry it's crooked.... |
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| In Central Park on our pre-race run :) |
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| The sweet ballroom we stumbled upon in our hotel. |
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| Checking out Times Square Saturday night after our race. |
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| M&M WORLD! My heaven on earth! |
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| SO pumped. Have I mentioned I looooove M&M's? :) |
I have another picture of my sister, Heidi's, DMR record which she still holds at the Armory! Yeah, she's fast and big time :) I'll work on putting that up once my internets are working better.
UPDATE: Here are the pictures of Heidi's National Record!
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| I believe she ran the 1200 in this... correct me if I'm wrong. |
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| The whole record wall! Nate had the 4xMile record until just last year I think. So big time :) |
All-in-all it was a way fun trip :) New York is one of a kind and somewhere you have to see for yourself. But, I don't think I'll ever want to live there. I'd take a real jungle over a concrete one any day :)
P.S. if any of you are interested, my race went... okay. Nothing amazing. I ran two seconds faster than I had the previous week (aka I ran 18:48 for the 5k). I have a LOT more in me though... stay tuned for some faster times in the future... I'm working hard and things are going to all come together. soon.
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