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Things I Love Thursday - Basking in the Glow of Running

It's Thursday, which means tomorrow is Friday. Which not only means it's the weekend, but it's the last day to enter my giveaway for a FlipBelt!! If you haven't entered yet, click HERE for more details and to enter. I will announce the winner tomorrow afternoon, so I will be taking entries until 12:00 pm (aka noon) MST.

Now that the giveaway reminder is out of the way, I have to tell you about my running. This is a running blog after all.

Tomorrow I will finish up the fourth week of my St. George Marathon training with a little 13.1 run at night. I am very excited for this race because I have no goals or expectations, other than to have fun. I will be treating it as a training run because I have another half marathon on the 28th that I am taking more seriously. Julia is also running the Glow in the Dark Half tomorrow, which pretty much guarantees it will be fun.

I have a few glowing accessories to run with tomorrow night (the race begins at 9pm!), but I'm a little worried they will be annoying. Luckily they were all pretty cheap, so I won't hesitate to rid myself of my glowiness if chaffing becomes a problem.

Other than enjoying some great runs, I've just been making the most of the summer with my girls. Sometimes those two thing go hand in hand, like this morning when I had this cute little view during my run:


Comments

  1. seriously. running a glow in the dark race is fulfilling a huge bucketlist item for me;) it WILL be a blast!!!! CANT WAIT TO SEE YOUUUUU!!!!!!!!

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  2. a glow in the dark run sounds like so much fun! I wish I could find one on the east coast. It seems like all of the night runs are on the west coast. Have fun!

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  3. I love night races! We have many here in SA and most won't allow you to run if you don't glow in the dark :) Enjoy and have a super weekend!

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  4. When i get off the injured list, a night-glow-in-the-dark-run will be the first thing i do! Have lots of fun!

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  5. So excited for you girls to run tonight. Have so much fun!!!

    Also I wanted to comment on your blog from last week about camparisons but read it on my iphone and enver came back to comment. What I wanted to say is you are one of those people that I always thought wow Candice is so perfectly fit and gorgeous and has the perfect little family. Seriously Candice I am admire you a lot and always know that people are looking up to you.

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  6. Hope the half last night was fun! It sounds like a great race to do.

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