Day Two in Nashville: Relaxing Before the Big Race

We made a bad mistake of going to the hotel buffet. It was gross but for some reason we still ate it. Not too much of it though.

On Friday we spent a good amount of the day walking around. We went to the Tennessee Titans stadium and walked around downtown.

We were excited about picking a restaurant for dinner. I knew I wanted to eat steak the night before the race. The best long run I ever had I ate steak the night before so I knew it would give me some extra confidence.

We asked around and decided to go to Demos'. This was one of the best steaks I've ever had. Of course CC sent me a text in the middle of dinner. I gladly reported to her that I was eating my "planned" meal. Steak and broccoli. 

We ate and then went back to the hotel and watched a movie. We loved our hotel. I think we could have stayed in it the whole time. People that get to stay in "fancy" hotels often might not know how it is for us less frequent flyers when we do get to go there. If you do get to say in hotels all the time make sure you think of us that don't and really enjoy it!!

We loved it. It was also very nice knowing that our kids were in good hands and we could really relax.

We put out our running items and went to bed. I was nervous but calm. It was weird. I felt really focused. I believe I set 4 alarms. I really didn't want to oversleep.

Day 1 in Nashville: Dancing and Ice Cream

I can't believe I haven't written about our trip yet. It has been CRAZY since we got back and really I haven't been in a writing or computer mood. I've been reading. Now that I've finished my books, which I am really sad about, I am ready to write about our half marathon.

When I woke up Thursday morning for our trip to Nashville I couldn't wait to jump on the scale. In my mind I told myself I wanted to get below 160 before we left for our trip (this was a personal goal I had). The day before we left I was 160.4. I weighed myself and I was 159.6!!! I was really excited.

We left Thursday early and arrived in Nashville at 8:00 am. The plane ride was bumpy but it was nice to be going somewhere.

We dropped off our luggage at the Courtyard in downtown, which was very nice I must say, and we headed to breakfast at Union 417, which had the best breakfast. After that we got in line for the Expo to open.

We spent 3 hours at the Expo!! We had a great time. We bought a few items and enjoyed all the free stuff they had to offer.

We then went and checked in to our hotel and relaxed for a little while.

So one might think that if you are going to run a half-marathon on Saturday that you take it easy the two nights before. Well...maybe it was because it was the first night without kids for us in awhile, or maybe it was because the beer tasted so good at the Wildhorse Saloon. I don't know which one but for some reason we decided to let loose on Thursday night.

The food at the Wildhorse was amazing and the Blue Moon didn't taste so bad either. We left the Wildhorse Saloon and headed down Broadway to hear a band.

We walked in to Merchants, which wasn't crowded and fell in love with the band. Well Eric did. For some reason Eric thought it was his mission to video tape this band. I'm not sure if he thought he was going to get some type of country music video out of it or what. It was my mission to try and see how many times I could dance my way in to his video that he was trying to take. It was also my mission to get everyone in there dancing, I somewhat succeeded. It was really funny.

We danced, laughed, and stayed there most of the night. The band asked us if we wanted to go to their next gig with them. I guess they wanted groupies. We said, "yes"  and followed them to the next place. This was about 10:00. After 30 minutes of this place we were ready to go back to the hotel. Kidless or not we knew our age and limits. :)  Of course we had to get ice cream before we went to bed.

I think I ate here every day. It was soooooooooooo scrumptious.