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Race Review: Lexington’s Run the Bluegrass Half Marathon 2017
Once again after a destination race weekend, I’m feeling inspired and excited to be a runner, and I’m itching to share my experience from Lexington, Kentucky’s Run the Bluegrass Half Marathon! After finishing our last half marathon (the Charleston Half Marathon) in January, we were all pumped up and ready to sign up for another. I browsed race calendars looking for the perfect race at the right time and in the right location. Lexington is just around the corner for us Ohioans, and it gave us a little over two months to continue our preparation, treating the Charleston race as just another training run. After checking out the race website…
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Race Review: Asheville Half Marathon at The Biltmore
It seems an appropriate time to rehash a race we ran a year ago, The Asheville Half Marathon held entirely within the grounds of The Biltmore Estate. The race is held in mid-March each year, so this year’s race was held last weekend, and I was bummed not to be joining in! For that reason, I’m going to re-live my memories of the fun we had during our brief visit in 2016. Asheville is just close enough to Ohio to make this a driveable weekend getaway. Dan and I reached The Doubletree, the race headquarters hotel, in the late evening hours on Thursday night and stepped out of the car…
