I have exciting news — I’m going to San Francisco for my race! This week, my aunt told me that she won the lottery for entry to the Nike Women’s Marathon, which gives me a shot of extra motivation to raise the higher minimum. I’m looking forward to seeing all my friends and family out there, and it’s going to be a great experience running my first race with my aunt!
Of course, San Francisco has hills. So it’s appropriate that this week’s training was our first hills run. Hills in southeastern Michigan, you say? Actually, yes. Today’s run in Bloomfield Hills had 164 feet of climb! There’s a reason it’s called Bloomfield Hills. Fortunately, the Nike Women’s Marathon course has “no cable-car hills,” according to the website. But it will have enough hills that I should add a regular weekly hill run to my training.