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 Raleigh, Oh sweet rolling hills Raleigh. If you read last post,  Monument 10k Recap , then you are aware that the day before this race I ran a 10k with my husband. Almost immediately after the race, we showered and ate of course,  hopped in the car ad took the 2 hour drive south to the hilly Raleigh, NC. Monument 10k took place on Saturday April 1st and on April 2nd I challenged my body to keep up with my mind. I'm happy to report it did.. and did better than expected!!! Expo: The Rock and Roll Marathon series has a pretty strict no exceptions rule to their bib pick up. That is that no one is allowed to pick up your bib but you. Normally this rule wouldn't bother me as I enjoy the expo experience however with me coming from a race and driving down I was concerned I might miss the expo time on Saturday as the closed at 5 pm. Thankfully we pulled into downtown Raleigh at about 3:15 pm. We paid for parking across from the expo and walked in. The venue was huge bu

Don't shoot me .. I'm super late but you know what I almost walked away from writing again. Maybe it's my nomad nature, my Gemini free spirit, my sheer laziness, or the fact that I've started working 50 hours a week on top of training and being the best mom and wife ever! Either way I'm back with revenge lol. I've freshened up the look of the blog and well I'm ready... so here we go!!! Expo Sports backers did it again! This was my second large expo and also my second one at a Sports backers event. My husband and son picked me up from work on my lunch break and we made the drive to Richmond to attend the expo at The Arthur Ashe Center. As usual it was packed but parking was way easier than it was this past November.  We walked in and it was simple to get our bibs then we walked through to get our shirts.  It wasn't  anything too excited. We did the usual walk around, grabbed a  few freebies, found our names on the wall and I got a quick chair