LI 1/2 Marathon
Waking up at 5:30am is never fun for me. BUT this was the morning of the LI half marathon. I've been running on a treadmill at a 12° incline just so I can handle the hills for weeks and weeks, today is it. I eat my peanut butter on whole wheat, banana and drink my water. I drive to Uniondale . I am meeting Rachael at Eisenhower Park. We say, "meet in the parking lot at say 7 ish ." I don't own a cell so we are winging it. After I get there I realize that Eisenhower Park has MULTIPLE parking lots and there is no way I am going to find her. I have her race number and chip and she is going to be s#!t out of luck if she doesn't find me. I pull right in front of a bathroom and low-and-behold she's already on line. We both can not believe we found each other, cause we both didn't follow the official race directions. We both parked in the Aquatic Center lot instead of the lot at the finish line. Coincidence or sisterly ESP, you decide. We walk to the start and ...