Hunting for Adventure

Carmel Marathon, well Half Marathon, 2021 Marathoning is not my favorite thing. It’s a distance I had grown to love training for (as a glutton for volume), but the actual racing, at the paces I was targeting, felt vomit inducing to think about. These were my thoughts even before my race week, and wow they were foreshadowing.  Still living in a pandemic world, races definitely were far and few between. A few friends and I had been lucky enough to race a tune-up half marathon in February in Greenville, SC, but really, most in person races were non-existent or very small local events. The Carmel marathon we were targeting seemed to have a good covid action plan in place, but it was constantly in my mind, and I know the mind of my teammates, that this race may get dusted like many of the other big marathons which had been cancelled.  Training started for this marathon block in early January, and actually, it had gone fairly well. I love our Rocksport group, everyone is so supportive

                                                                                          Swamp Rabbit Half Marathon, Greenville, SC                                                                                    A race… A real live race! My friends and I had anxiously been eyeing the southeastern US race calendar for months looking for something that 1- probably would happen admist Covid 2- be somewhat decent weather in February 3- have a decent course at the half marathon distance. After all, the intention of this race was to prep ultimately for the Carmel Marathon in April 2021. We settled along the Swamp Rabbit half in Greenville, SC, a city within about a 5h driving distance from Lexington. Greenville is an awesome city. If you haven’t been, it really is a cool place to check out. The downtown is so cute, the atmosphere a little hipster-ish and progressive but in a very lovable way. My husband lived in Greenville for years while attending Furman University, and he still has