Last annoying post about this (I kind of promise).
I cancelled my hotel room in D.C. earlier today. I know the hurricane is said to be moving more south, but that doesn’t stop the rain that is still forecast to fall all this week and it doesn’t stop the fact that one point of the course is already flooded. It will only cost me $12 to get my flights changed to my Marathon Weekend trip, then that will be one less thing to worry about! I can defer my race entry until next year but apparently it will be $32 to do so. I am fine with it but it still bugs me that they are really not giving two craps about this hurricane and how it is effecting people who are flying in for their race. Someone on Facebook made a valid point that not only is there flooding in D.C. right now, and the Mayor put the city in a state of emergency already, but the city is probably going to have an extra influx of people who are evacuating from the south. So yeah, I feel like I made the right decision and I am okay with it. Even though I loved that medal a lot.
Time to put some things into perspective.
While, yes this race was also going to be my PoT for WDW Marathon Weekend, it was much more than that to me. At the beginning of the year I set a goal to race a 2:20 Half Marathon, which low-key turned into a sub:2 hour HM, and then into an even lower time to lock in Corral B for the Marathon at WDW. Right now, I am sitting at 2:22:22 for my Half PR which I set back in January. I know I have gained so much strength and power in the past 8 months but I want to prove it to myself in a race. The Navy Air Force Half Marathon, in the conditions that are forecasted, was not the race to do this in. The Hurricane Half Marathon in Utah that is happening this weekend, is also not the race to do this in. So that led me back to the internet and searching for a race that was a) before the PoT deadline and b) in more ideal running conditions.
That leads me to my next race: the Oregon Women’s Half Marathon in Eugene, OR.
The race is on O̶c̶t̶o̶b̶e̶r̶ ̶6̶t̶h̶ October 7th (thank you
@SarahDisney for keeping on top of things for me) so I now have 3 more weeks of training tacked on to my already never ending training plan, haha. I am going to fly up to Portland and some friends of mine are letting me hang with them that weekend. They are going to a college football game in Corvallis and staying the night then they will drive me to my race on Sunday and we will hang out in Eugene after for the day. It should be really fun and still cheaper than going to D.C.
So that is that. Now if running could go back to being fun and not stressful that would be great.