Recap - Weekend in Philly

Friday evening and Saturday, I got some quality time in with some of my best girlfriends in the world! Erica, Kelly, Sara, and Lisa were all able to make some time to come to Philly and visit while I was there which was sooo fun! :) We hung out all day on Saturday too just kind of bumming around Philly and stuff. Sarah & Eric Miller came up too and we all went over to the Expo together to get our packets and whatever free stuff we could find... I'm really wishing I had bought this:
http://thestick.com/
Scott was making fun of it last night, but OMG, I would die for it now with my legs being all sore and stuff. Though, I'm not sure I could have carried on my bag with that in there! ;)

Sunday - The Broad Street Run was faaaabulous. It was so much fun and so overwhelming I don't even know where to start... First off, to break your heart, I don't have any pictures at this time so I'll just yank some off the internet and you can pretend I'm in them.

Running through Philly: (this pic is from not this year - the sky was not that blue when we were running...)

Cool slideshow to see the crowds and winners and stuff. :)

I totally Hi-Fived PA Gov Ed Rendell at Mile 6.

We had so much fun! Nikki and Kevin, Sarah & Eric Miller and me ran, with Kevin's brother, Nik's sister Morgan and her friend Heather and one of Kev's co-workers... so we had a pretty decent sized group! Including a whopping SIX Etown HS grads... [saving this spot for the pic Mrs. Rodgers took.] We're crossing our fingers it get's chosen for the Etown Chronicle's Smile of the Week ;) .

So, we started out super early Saturday, and drove down to the finish, parking near the Phillies' stadium. Then we took the Subway to get to the start with ...23,000 strangers. It was pretty crazy. We ended up getting to the start of the race 10 min or so before the start. The sheer volume of people is something I just couldn't prepare myself for. I don't think I've ever done something with that many people at once... and it's kinda neat when you think about it that that many people can run 10 miles. It seems like sometimes all you ever hear about is how fat and lazy America is. Just sayin.

I ran with Nikki pretty much the whole time - until Mile 8 or so when I got some sort of adrenaline super-human burst...which was further fuled by the Mile 9 mark when they were playing the Rocky theme and I just had that in my head till the end. I'm not sure what my time was - they have the results up but don't have mine :( I called and she said there were a bunch of people calling in who aren't listed so the good news is it'll be up I just have to be patient. My fave pastime! :) I think it was around 1:41/1:42ish - which is prob around the same pace I had in my 10k, and that makes me really happy. A shade over a 10 min mile, which is what I was shooting for.