This weekend was filled with adventure and family. Friday night we
drove down to Mankato to pick up our packet for the Zombie Run. We had pizza at
the house with DJ and kids and Danielle. We spent the night at DJ because we
had to be at the Zombie Run in the morning.
Zombie Run Mankato
Well this race wasn’t really about time and as such I’m not even sure
what my time was. I think my pace was like 19:00 per mile and I think we did
1.25 miles. I’m not really sure. This was a challenge. The course was entirely
on grass, mud and sand. There were zombies all over that you had to dodge so you did
more side stepping then running. It was really a sprint through the zombie
field, then walk to the next one and sprint again. So I guess it was more like
a speed workout. Ha! We had to run
through 2 buildings, one had a maze and it was dark and there were zombies. The
killer was the steep hill that had no really path and we were walking sideways
trying not to slide down it. Pulling on trees to make sure we can get to the top.
Oh and through brambles. It wasn’t the best part. On top there was a water
stop. I never imagined I’d need a water stop on such a short run but it was
really hot and it was more of a workout than I had expected. We finished with
flags so we all got a corny “medal” that says we survived.
Packet Pick up!
After the Zombie Run we headed for Downtown Minneapolis to pick up our
Minneapolis Marathon Relay packet. It was a busy place. We also pick up our stuff
for Women Rock and Monster Dash. We got some stuff. I got a nice headband for
Women Rock and we got the nice gray Marathon Training tee. It was a fun time.
We drove the race course and checked out the exchange areas and our plan for
picking people up and picked up some Chinese food and meet Beth, Abbie and Abbie’s
teammate at our house. We had a fun house! We called it an early night since we
had an early walk up call. The race started at 6:30 so we had to leave the
house by 5:30 at the latest.
Minneapolis non-Marathon
I was rudely awaken at 4:15 am by the National Weather Service because
there was a flash flood warning for my location. Really? You had to call me? Where did I sign up for
this? I was mad! I tried getting back to
sleep, even though it would only be for an hour at most. But then the rain
came. And it was the type of rain that I probably would have slept through if I
was sleeping but since I was up there was no way I was getting back to sleep.
So I grabbed my nook and started surfing. At some point the marathon time was
delayed an hour. I changed the alarm clock up an hour since Eric was still
sleeping. Man he can sleep through anything! I went downstairs to let Brenda
and DJ that the race was delayed an hour. They were already ready to go so we
went to Caribou for our morning fix. It was pouring when we ran out to the car
but when we got to Caribou, which is less than 2 miles away. It was not
raining. We sat around there for a while talking about the day and I kept
checking for a cancellation. I forgot to mention we were getting a lot of
lightning too. Nothing was being updated. So we went home I put on my race gear
and got Eric up. We headed out the door and made our way to the drop off point
for the start. We wished Eric good luck and said we would see him later. We
drove to place along the route at mile 2 or so and hunkered down for the
runners. Well they never came. The course marshal said that she didn’t hear
anything about cancellation so we waited. Then there was a car that was driving
down the parkway. She stopped him and said he had to get off because there was
a race coming through very soon. The driver said there was no race and the
first water station was already taken down. Poor communication! Well we got in
our car and started driving down a different street and then we saw the hordes
of runners. Some of them decided there were going to do the course anyways. We panicked
because we didn’t think Eric would have decided to run but we were not sure. So
I jumped out of the car and ran toward the start line to see if I could find
Eric. I never saw him. HE wasn’t anywhere to be found. Thankfully Eric and DJ
share the Williams’ brain and DJ instinctively knew where he was. Very bizarre!
So we found Eric on a park bench about a half of mile down the road from the
start line. I never would have thought of that. We drove downtown to get our
medals (I earned it!), stopped at Caribou again and drove down the last part of the race route. There
were runners running it. Good for them. We drove. LOL!
Minnehaha Falls
We stopped at Minnehaha Falls. With all this rain I was figuring it was
going pretty good. It was! It was
busting its banks! Crazy!
So we got home and DJ and the kids went home. Abbie’s soccer games were
cancelled too. Eric and I just lounged on the coach watching movies the rest of
the day. I never did go for my run.
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