After leaving Love Park in Philly we headed straight for the race expo to pick up our bibs and packets. Won't lie- the expo was so underwhelming...there weren't a whole lot of booths and definitely minimal samples to try! So we pretty much picked up our stuff, did a run by, then headed back to the hotel.
We walked around Bethleham some more in search of dinner and ended up at a brick pizza place- pretty good but our pizza was super spicy andddd it was BYOB. Not a fan of all that. We were back to the hotel and asleep by 9 (well Matt and I definitely were anyway).
We were up by 6 am Saturday, got ready, then had breakfast downstairs before Matt drove us to the start. The 5k was first and went really well. It was pretty congested starting out, but we finished in 29:20 and kept a 9:13 minute pace, not too bad.
We had about an hour between the 5 and 10k, which didn't feel all that long. Thankfully it wasn't too chilly out! Our 10k was definitely more challenging with all the hills we encountered so we finished in 1:01:23, a 9:46 minute pace. Day one was done!
After the races we cleaned up then headed to a wing place to chow down and watch football. Thankfully they found the SEC network for the SC game so Matt and Hal were happy. We never could find it again for the GA game which was a huge bummer for me. After the game we drove about an hour north to check out Bushkill Falls, a popular waterfall in PA. It was so pretty! And the walk was challenging, especially wearing dressier boots and jeans. Not to mention after running two races back to back!
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