Indy

At the beginning of the Indy Mini Marathon. It took me 12 minutes from the gun to get to the start line. Don't try to find me, I'm not in this picture.

This was Hannah's view the whole time. Matt and Hannah enjoyed some father/daughter time.

Hannah needed her diaper changed so Matt took her to the Hyatt, to the nicest changing table he's ever seen. Hannah liked it too.

It was made of marble or something.

And after my race. I ran a 1:43:08. I did not train well for this race, but I am very pleased with my time. The weather was perfect. About 55 and cloudy. When it's sunny, and we're running on the speedway around mile 6-8, it feels like the asphalt is burning holes in your shoes.

Having a child seriously cuts into my running time. I now am stuck on the treadmill in the basement walking, not even running, for 30-40 minutes a day. So to train for this, I went on three 10 mile runs in the past two months.

I've decided half marathons are 70% mental, 20% training and 10% how I feel on race day. And for some reason I felt great today. Right now, at almost 10pm, I still feel pretty good. My muscles aren't sore, but my right knee is painful. At my lateral joint line. This tells me something about my shoes. I just bought them last week and did one run in them before today. I know, bad decision. Also, after I run a race, any more then about 10 miles, my GI system is messed up for the rest of the day. I won't go into details, but I get some major intestinal pain for the next 12 hours. I've definitely googled this and found that it's somewhat normal. I haven't found anything to help it though. If someone has any suggestions, please let me know.

I've thought about doing a marathon. But I feel like it would take something that I enjoy doing and turn it into work.

Tomorrow I think we are headed to the Fort Wayne Tincaps game. I've heard some call them the Potheads, but I'll be respectful.....