So, I've started to get back into running. I'm feeling much better than I did this summer. Although my grad school schedule is kicking my butt, I really enjoy running. To motivate me I signed up to run this race and I half trained for it for the month of October. There were about 3,000 runners who ran thru Hell, Michigan. There was actually a line to get into Hell, so the race start was postponed about 15 minutes. I guess everyone took the highway to Hell. It was a cold day in Hell. Hell is also quite hilly. This is probably the hilliest race I've ever ran. It was also an out and back so I knew exactly what I had to run up on the way back. So considering my general not in-shapeness and the hills, I think I did alright. The costumes were pretty neat. My favorite: Two people dressed up as trees and between them they had a clothes line with clothes pegged to it. I did not wear a costume although I wanted to dress in all gold and wear wings and be the snitch from Harry Potter. But I am not fast enough to wear that sort of costume and I doubt many people would have gotten it. I pretty much died throughout the race. My miles were a consistent 8:25 but with each hill I was being drained of pretty much everything. Even worse was that I got out-sprinted at the line by a girl much younger than me. Documentation of this can be found at: http://timeframephoto.exposuremanager.com/p/10hell-up_to_2651/10hell-finish-292_11_67_2_1 as I still really haven't figured out how to insert images quickly. I'm bib number 2254. Hell, Michigan was fun and the bad puns were limitless. After the race, my friend and I hit up the 2 local stores: Hell in a Hand Basket and Screams Ice Cream from Hell - where I bought a coffee mug.
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