Indianapolis Monumental Marathon

Indianapolis has a new marathon this year on November 1. Straight from their website, "The Indianapolis Monumental Marathon Course highlights a number of great buildings and features in our beautiful and convenient Indianapolis downtown including: the Indiana State Capitol, the Arts Garden, Lucas Oil Stadium, Circle Center Mall, Monument Circle, a number of federal monuments, the Cultural trail and the Mass. Ave. District. We are also happy to showcase several interesting and lovely neighborhoods including the Old Northside, Fall Creek Place, Meridian-Kessler, Butler-Tarkington and Broad Ripple."

I ran the Chicago Marathon a few years back, and the thought of doing something that's happening for the first time is pretty cools, so I decided I'm going to give it a shot. It's pretty late to get into the training schedule (most of the shorter schedules run around 18 weeks, and there are about 16 weeks til the race), but I think I have one modified to get me ready for the race. The route map on the marathon site is super low res and sucks, but if you compare it to Google Maps, you can figure out where it's going. They also posted a video of the route, for those of you familiar with Indianapolis:


I'll do my best to stick to the program and try to update my progress here once a week or so. Anybody else wanna join me?

Race for the Cure

Katie and I ran in the Komen Race for the Cure yesterday morning. We had been training fairly religiously to make sure we didn't have any trouble finishing. After all the great weather we had lately, of course it was cool and rainy for race day. I'm sure the real, seriously runners were happy as clams about it, but most of us weren't. However, we managed to have a good time, get our run in, and see A LOT of other people in the process (something like 40,000+). The course was a nice run around White River State Park, past the zoo, some local businesses, the new Lucas Oil Stadium, and Victory Field. We both finished with pretty slow times, and I'm secretly wondering if the course was a little long, but who knows. Nike+ told me I ran about 5.5k instead of 5, but it's usually off by a little. The most important thing is that Katie and I managed to raise almost $500 toward a cure for breast cancer, thanks to many of you guys who helped out our cause. Thanks guys!

Anyway, I wish I had some photos for you, but I was a little busy and cameras don't tend to agree with rain, so you get an old one from a Google Image Search.