Adios Andrea!

I kicked off my Saturday morning with a run down on the Beach Walk at North Beach in Corpus. I was picking up one of my close friends for a girls night in San Antonio at the Riverwalk so I thought it would be good to change up my locations. Plus it is so much harder running by the water. It is a good challenge considering the trail run is in Corpus in just 6 weeks. Even though Alice is only an hour away the humidity and wind are so much worse it seems. 

The Beach Walk goes along the beach (obvi) from down by the USS Lexington to a turn around point before you hit the bridge to go into Portland. It was a short run but it was brutal. If you have never been to Corpus Christi, you at least have to come once. There isn't a super bunch to do but it is a great little town. From the bay here in downtown to North Padre Island to Port Aransas. I have been in the Coastal Bend now for six years which is the longest I have ever been anywhere other than where I grew up in San Antonio. 

The crew for Saturday night....Me, Sara, Andrea, and Kelly. Andrea is moving to Montana to join her husband who has been working there for almost three months. I have only been close to her for about 6 - 8 months but I am going to miss her bunches. We met through church and just clicked. We are both oilfield wives which is nice to have that in common. Not many women understand the life of an oilfield wife. I don't have many friends and I am loosing one. But there is great hunting and fishing in Montana so we will be making a trip up to visit soon. 

Monday miles were not what they were supposed to be. My runs where all supposed to be at minimum 4 miles this week but I had a restless night of sleep and I just wasn't feeling it this morning. I got is 2.5 and abs which is better than staying in bed. 

I am going to finish June out strong! I am hoping to hit 45 miles for the month which is a new monthly record for me. I will let you know tomorrow how that goal goes!

Sunny Southern California for Christmas

I leave tomorrow morning to head to San Diego to spend Christmas and my birthday with my sister and her family. Yes I know....it is our first Christmas as husband and wife but I had made these plans with Dave's old schedule and when he switched jobs his scheduled changed. Gotta love the South Texas oilfield. 

I am looking forward to checking out San Diego and Carlsbad where they live but I am most stoked about being able to run in a different place. 

My sister is trying to get back into running now that the twins are in school two days a week so I am hoping us running together will help motivate her and I will enjoy having a buddy!

39th Armed Forces Beach to Bay Relay Run

So about a week before the big Beach to Bay run that is held every year here in Corpus Christi I was stuck in this big black boot! How come you say....well I was changing up my stride, something a CrossFit coach told me to do, since I am a heal striker. Well in doing so I started to get a stress fracture on the outside of my foot. My friend who help me through all of it is an LAT at a local high school and he also told me that the colorful Nikes I was wearing really did nothing to support my foot either. Needless to say I wore this boot everyday during the day for about three weeks and it helped so much! It enabled me to keep training and run my first 10K!

I chose to run the first leg of Beach to Bay which is.......the beach leg! Duh! It gave me a great excuse to spend some time at my first home here in Corpus Christi. I love the island. I miss the island. I miss the beach. I miss the friends I made, the bars I went to, and the lifestyle that comes with living so close to the water. 

This year the winds were roughly around 20 MPH give or take and the majority of the leg that I ran was into the wind! Ugh! But I finished. My average pace per mile wasn't that great but given the super loose sand and wind that day I will take it. 

Beach to Bay has all ready opened up registration for 2015 and I am definitely going to run it again. I think this next one I want to run the third leg. If you have never been a part of this awesome relay you definitely need to put it on your race bucket list! Plus coming to Corpus Christi is always a bonus!