It’s been a while since I ran the Houston Marathon. A couple years, we ran the We Are Houston 5k and didn’t show up the next day for the marathon. However, this year, I did.
Lunchbox was a couple weeks out from a baby, so she wasn’t able to participate. Unfortunately. But she and the babies were able to come with me to the 5k and hang out. They dropped me off for the marathon and went to hang out with Grandma and Great-Grandma. Then they came back to pick me up.
The 5k was nice. Like 3000 people? I think that’s what they said. The same course that they’ve had forever. Complete with race morning packet pickup…for free!! A novel idea, in this day and age. Here’s our race video. Check out our 2023 races page for more pictures.
The marathon is a different story that, honestly, I’m too lazy to write out just now. Best to watch the video. It says most of my thoughts.
I read back to my 2018 blog about the experience. I’m surprised about my thoughts there about the expo. If that was indeed true, the expo has gone WAY down hill in the past decade. Hopefully they get their shit together and spruce it back up a bit.
I’m somewhat disappointed in myself about the race. I just couldn’t breathe and was really slow. Not to say that there’s anything wrong with 5:30, but I’m more happy with myself in the mid to low 4 hour marathons. But since having the first baby, I’m finding it hard to get motivation to train outside of races. And, with few races in December and late November, I wasn’t in a very good position for this race. There’s always next year.
But it was fun. I’m not very sore. I was a little stiff yesterday (Tuesday), but not too bad today. My next marathon is scheduled for January 29. Hopefully that one will go better and I’ll be able to come in under 5 hours. We’ll see. And hopefully Lunchbox will be able to recover and get back to being active. I know she misses it, but it’s hard to move with a 3 week old on your chest and a 18 month old running around screaming!!
As always, see the 2023 races page for more pictures and details.