From my "Daily Mile" report:

This was a Tiarathon warm-up. I took it pretty easy to make sure I could go the whole distance. It was definitely fabulous to reach the end. Now I KNOW I can do the Disney Princess Half! Here's more of the story:

An unfortunate side-effect of the awesome trail run I had last week was that I made a big mistake and used my dryer to help the drying-out process of my shoes after removing all the mud -- so my shoes shrank a bit. Running in them last week didn't "stretch" them.

And so -- very early in this race, I felt my sock acting funny. I adjusted it. Then it happened again. I realized it was my shoes causing the problem, so it isn't surprising I have 5 blisters on the problem foot (and one on the other foot for good measure.) This is the first time I've ended up with blisters, and definitely surprising that it happened around mile 3 - so I'll be getting new shoes for the Tiarathon!

Then the other complication was that the main parking lot was filled - so I took over 20 minutes to find a suitable parking space, but it was over a mile away from the race shuttle. I walked most of the way towards the shuttle, but then one of the people conducting traffic yelled, "The last shuttle left, I think! You gotta JAM to see if it left!" And so I RAN... and caught the shuttle. But that meant I had already walked/run a mile before the race even started.

When the gun went off I was in the loo. Not a problem, for with 10,000 racers, it took awhile for everyone to filter through anyway. In a way, being late to the race meant I could jump right in without having my nerves really percolate.

On the way back from the finish, I again had to walk that mile (slowly and very painfully!) -- which means I actually walked/ran a tad over 15 miles yesterday. I earned my Superbowl food (steak and garlic mashed potatoes!)

And! Still NOT LAST! I was #484 of 505 in my age group. #5779 of 6087 overall M and F finishers. (There were 10,000 total racers - but there was a 5K, too.)