St. Louis Trip - Part 6 MO' Cowbell Half Marathon

Stacie fixed a good pasta dinner on October 3rd because the next morning we were getting up early to go to St. Charles and run the MO' Cowbell Half Marathon. I was really looking forward to it because it would be Stacie's first half marathon and I was hoping she would someday be able to make the time to train to run one while I was still running them. Tom and I have now done 9 together but this was the best because we were able to share the experience with Stacie. And it was an experience!

We got lucky with the weather even though it was a little cool we all just wore layers and we were comfortable. There was some wind from time to time but nothing unreasonable. As far as the course goes there was only one hill of any real significance and it wasn't steep just long and steady between miles 9 and 11. The real negative for the course was twofold. First we were hoping to run at least part of it along the river on the Katy Trail and none of it actually did that. The second and more significant was that there was too much cement that we had to run on. Even a lot of the actual streets were cement as opposed to asphalt which is much more forgiving. 

Who knows what the future brings as far as additional half marathons. I can't even say right now if I will do more halfs but I know the three of us will hopefully keep running a lot more races together. 

And how did we spend the rest of the day? Stacie took Haley to a birthday party. Tom took Chase to hockey practice where he also coaches. And me? I watched football.