Showing posts with label nurse on the run. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nurse on the run. Show all posts

Friday, December 13, 2013

NYC Half Marathon + NYC Trip

And the lottery results are in!

Drumroll please......

I didn't get in.

Womp, womp.

Yesterday was super weird, I checked my email obsessively and then saw that people were checking their statuses on NYRR, so I did that and it said I wasn't in. Bummer. And THEN I saw that some people who had saw their statuses as "not accepted" later got their credit cards charged and flip over to "accepted." So I held out hope! Then my not accepted status changed! YIPPEE!

And then when I got home I found out it had changed BACK to not accepted, and then I got the official email. Such a bummer. I'm really not that mad that I don't get to do that particular race, but I REALLY REALLY wanted to be in NYC over St. Patty's day with my two race options falling in the middle-ish of March. I tried to swing my flight STILL to make it work to be there over the day o' green, but the flight is $130 more. Gross.

I'm really glad I had a backup plan of the All State half, or I think yesterday would've left me SUPER BUMMED.

NYC (+Susan!) I'm still comin' for ya!


^I finally let myself pick these guys up from the library this week to start perusing. 

Any must sees?
Must dos?
Must eats? (<--most important, obvs)
Must drinks?
While I'm there??


Thursday, October 31, 2013

Lottery Entry

$10/mile?  Sure..... why not.

I'm finally finalizing my graduation trip present to myself:  a trip to NYC!  I've never been before, and it's on my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days (even though I'll miss the cutoff by about 90 days).  AND I'll get to see my favesies running nurse SUSAN!!!!  I think she's been trying to get me to come to move to NYC for approximately 3+ years now.  Maybe I'll just pack the pug and make her wish come true!

Anyway, I had been looking for a race to coincide with my trip, and found two:  2014 NYC Half and the All State Life Insurance Half, both in March, on either side of St. Patty's Day.  A sign?  Surely.  So I'm throwing my name in the hat for the 2014 NYC Half to make it my most expensive half to date.  I'm not sure if I've spent that much on my races TOTAL for 2013.....



Our last (=only) run together, over 2 years ago.  Pre-fall, pre-skinned knee!