Okay okay...I know I have been remiss about blogging. What can I say? I was out having fun!
I still can't add pictures here so I will do that back in the states. I am currently sitting in the Dublin airport and really want to just get home. I don't typically say that at the end of an international trip but I have felt like complete garbage for three days and really just want to sleep. Aside from that, the trip was great fun.
Race day was picture perfect for running. Weather was in the low 60s, not too windy and generally ideal racing weather. The course, however, was brutal!! I never knew how hilly Brussels really is. Good heavens. There were moments I honestly thought about giving up. But I didn't. My brother ran with me the whole race which was cool. And, in typical runner fashion, there were runners in costumes and other crazy attire. A couple guys dressed as a lady bug and bumblebee. One guy in one of those body suits that also covers the face (it was pink), a guy running with his two dogs (which we determined was kind of cheating because they could pull him along) and other such craziness. And if you haven't seen the Facebook post, we were on the Brussels TV. After we crossed the finish line, I thought my brother was right behind me going through the line to get water and food. Apparently, though, he got stopped by the camera guy who saw his shirt and wanted to know about it. So Rob came to get me and we got interviewed. They obviously cut out a lot of the interview like explaining what the shirt was about. I guess MasterCard doesn't air the same commercials in Belgium as they do the US because he had no idea what it was about.
Anyway, then we went to Ghent and Bruges each for two days. Very different cities but each cool in some way. Ghent is very medieval and definitely a younger crowd (they have a large university there). Bruges was absolutely gorgeous as we had been told it was. And we actually had the best waffle of the whole trip in Bruges. It was right off the iron and was amazing!!!
....(a few minutes later)
Well, you are in Iuck!! I just checked my ipad photos are there are some on here!!!
The starting line before the race...
The front of our shirts...
We were at the very back of the pack which was fine with me!
Dude with his dogs
Yeah, the finish was still 1/2 of a mile away at least!!!
Post race STELLA!!!!!
Post race waffle!
Gravensteen Castle in Ghent
That's all that apparently transferred so you have to wait until I'm back in the US of A!!
Love the Castle :)
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