The first three things I learned about Nashville? 1. It's hot. 2. It's humid. 3. It's gots some hills. Holy man.
I was all nerves and smiles at the start when the sun was still waking up and it was a little overcast and a lovely 70 degrees. But then the sun woke up and it was really excited to see all the runners! I believe it hit 85 before we were done and it was so so so humid. And I don't know how they managed it, but I swear that entire course was uphill. It was really hard, but with a little help from Gu, a lot of help from the awesome people at the water/Gatorade stations, and a little walking here and there, I finished. It took me 2 hours and 36 minutes. I was shooting for 2:30, but I will gladly take a finish time 6 minutes off my goal. And they gave me this at the finish line:
I will say, it made me feel so much better on Saturday evening, whilst eavesdropping on a table next to us at dinner, to hear a woman say, "This is my 10th half marathon, and this is the first time I have ever had to walk." That took the feeling of wussiness due to walking down a couple pegs.
After all the race stuff was over, we got to hang out in Nashville for a couple days. Ummm, yeah. Why haven't I gone to Nashville before?! Every bar on Broadway Street has live music pretty much from open to close. And there are a lot of bars on Broadway Street. All the bars and restaurants and lights and music...it's kinda like a mini Honky-Tonk'd Vegas, and I pretty much never wanted to leave.
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