Monday, March 19, 2012
It's Ellerbe
So here’s the deal: I will drive approximately 6 hours to a small town near the southern border of North Carolina, west of I-95. After picking up my race packet, I will check into a hotel in a nearby city, because the marathon town has only one inn and it is full. I will try to stay focused and centered and maybe even detach myself from prerace anxiety enough to stroll around and take pictures ... maybe. Saturday morning I will drive the 12 miles back to town and join a small crowd of runners at the start of the challenge. The Challenge--hills, solitude, weather that threatens to turn too warm. And then? And then ...
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And then....you will blog all about it, complete with pictures, so that those of us who don't run the world can at least be spectators.
ReplyDeleteI like your comment Ginger. Ellerbe sounds like Preston ... only one inn. Probably any other time of the year the inn is practically empty.
ReplyDeleteAnd then ... you'll enjoy the hills, the solitude & wonder why you are doing another run in March!! ;)
Oh, wait! This is your first run in March, but it doesn't seem that long ago you ran the one in February. You've got another one scheduled fairly close to it in April.
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