2013 Summary!

2013 has come to an end!  And if you remember from our very first post our goal for 2013 was to run one race every month.  If we doubled up one month, we still had to run one the next month.

Unfortunately we didn't hit every month, August and October ended up being very poor and busy.  We were prioritizing and budgeting as Ben likes to call it for the Disneyland Half Marathon in August, and in October was busy with football season and getting ready for #500Strong for homecoming.

We had some awesome memories however!

From our first run at Grassmere Zoo in Nashville for the Zoo Run Run then heading over and grabbing some spiked milkshakes at Burger Republic.

Starting 2013 off Right with the Zoo Run Run at Grassmere!

Then doubling up in February and doing the Royal Family 5K followed by the Princess Half Marathon!

Royal Family 5K at EPCOT

 And, while we didn't know it at the time, we were finishing half the runDisney Coast to Coast Challenge with running the Princess Half Marathon!

Princess Half Marathon in Disney World!

 While i'm not sure if it was the best idea, we certainly tested the limits running in the elements of the 2013 Charlotte Spartan Race

Then making it a family affair in March at the Color Run!

Color Run with the Famliy!

Then we headed to Georgia for the 2nd Annual Party of the Southland Adventure Weekend for Warrior Dash!

PartyOTS Adventure Weekend 2013

We brought a couple newcomers with us for Foam Fest in Nashville.  While it was our least favorite race of the year, the Banderas made it much better!

BANDERAS!

Then we all busted out our #Swag for the first Urban Obstacle Course by Muddy Buddy!

#SWAG

We learned at the Fourth of July 10K that after a 10K, 2 beers is my limit for re-hydration.  3 beers, and I feel terrible.

Sisters at the Fourth of July 10K

Then we missed our first Tennessee home game in 20 years to complete the runDisney Coast to Coast Challenge at the Disneyland Half Marathon!

After just running through the castle

We met some friends from college as they also completed their Coast to Coast Challenge.

The whole crew at the Disneyland Half Marathon!

Then we nearly froze to death at the BoroDash in Murfreesboro on Thanksgiving!

Ben and Jenn at the starting line!

And we finished it off with the Christmas Story 10K virtual Race!

It's a Major Award!

We look forward to repeating some races in 2014, trying some new ones, and continue to run in our drinking shoes!

A Christmas Story 10K - 2013

You'll shoot your eye out!  Fa Ra Ra Ra Ra, official Red Ryder carbine action two-hundred shot range model air rifles, Fuuuuuuuuuuudddddddddddddgggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeee!

Everyone loves A Christmas Story.

So when we found out that there's a run outside of Cleveland to support the A Christmas Story Museum we were definitely in.

However, our finances weren't.

Whoever said "running is cheap" hasn't booked hotels, registered for races, driven all over creation for races.  We were tapped out, fortunately for us they had a virtual run.

You sign up for it, they send you all your goodies, and you run it at home.

I signed up for the 10K.  Unfortunately, once it gets cold, if you remember, I don't run anymore.  So I was not near ready for this run.  So I knew to entice me to run, I wouldn't open my "goodie box" that came in the mail until after I had run.

I planned my route, and got out on yet another freezing cold Saturday and began to knock this thing out.

The wind was awful, it snowed part of the way, but I finished it.  AND I got to open my goodie box!

A super awesome T-shirt, complete with leg lamp down the arm, running bib, race certificate, awesome looking medal, and of course, a single packet of Ovaltine...a crummy commercial.

This run wasn't fun, I ran it alone, all alone not even strangers around, but I finished it.

And as we all know from Pinterest....I beat all the people on the couch.