This weekend I ran the Tour Des Fleurs 20K for the first time.  It was a pretty difficult race.  Started out flat for the first half and then treated us to a bunch of hills in the second half.   I happened to see a couple of girls from the DRC running club at the beginning of the race which was lucky since it was pretty crowded.  I admittedly went out too fast keeping pace with Katherene…one of the faster girls in our training program.  I slowed down significantly at the half way, but still walked away with a 20K PR at 1:39:21.  Q beat me by over 2 minutes and Katherene held her quick pace finishing 5 minutes ahead of me.  Kyle beat me by ooo ummm 13 minutes!  Race Results are here.

Being that I am once again obsessed with qualifying for Boston I plugged my 20K time into the McMillan Calc and McMillan predicts a 3:41:07 marathon in my future….ummm Mr. McMillan, I don’t mean to be rude, but I need a 3:40   Ok, so it isn’t his fault…I just need to get faster!

The other neat thing about this race is it begins and ends at the Dallas Arboretum.  There is free beer and food and free admission to the Arboretum.  Somehow I lost track of most everyone…I was in the beer area and then food area and then finish line….gave up and went back to the beer area.  A friend I had not seen in awhile found me there and after a few photo opts with some interesting folks we strolled through the arboretum and then headed out for lunch in Uptown.  Here’s a pic of her (Chae) saving a rather plump caterpillar that was on the walkway

Got home and never did get a nap, but I fell asleep at 10:30 and got a good 12 hours of sleep Saturday night