a year in races
This is always one of my favorite recaps to write. My year started off by running - and just barely PRing - a four miler on New Year's Eve with an awesome group of girls. This is still one of my favorite races from 2012. After that race, I hunkered down for quite a few months into training, emerging untapered and with a still-healing calf in March to match my half marathon PR and cheer the poet onto a big marathon PR . April brought my first 10 miler - another fake PR run at MAF - my very first swim meet , and the first sprint triathlon I had done since my very first. I learned that I had completely forgotten how to hurt on the run (and writing this now, I realize that I still haven't remembered). May was less fun as I kicked it off by puking my way through 70.3 miles . But later the month brought a confidence-building century and easy-paced open water 5K swim to kick off an awesome training weekend with friends. I still have no idea how there are zero p