Fun in Phoenix

Jennifer, Sharmin and I partied it up this weekend! Jennifer and I decided to run the PF Chang's Rock-n-Roll half marathon in Phoenix on Sunday, 1/15 (thanks Sharm for letting us stay with you!). It was a blast! I flew in on Thursday, picked up Jennifer on Friday and chilled with Sharm. We went to a spa, did some shopping, and had some drinks at Bar Smith-Welch. :) Sharmin wasn't really drinking in the picture above, she was just mixing drinks for us!
This morning, we woke up at 6am to get ready to leave for the run. We got to the finish area at the ASU stadium where we were supposed to catch a shuttle to the start area which was 30 minutes away. The half marathon started at 8:30 and the last shuttle was scheduled to leave at 7:30. We arrived before 7am. Plenty of time right? Wrong! The line for the shuttle was wrapped around the parking lot, there must have been at least 1000 people waiting. The line was not moving at all. Everyone was wondering what the heck was going on. Finally, one of the volunteers came by and said they were doing the best they could and that traffic was causing the buses to be late. Wonderful. We finally made it to the front of the line and got on the shuttle at 8:45. We got to the start at 9:15. It was hilarious, they had started dismantling the start line. We missed out on all the elbow to elbow action which was nice, but it just wasn't the same without the crowds. It was so weird to just start running right at the start. We had to do a lot of weaving in and out of people since we didn't start with our corrale.
The run was great! It was the first time Jennifer and I ran together and we had a blast! We took a lot of pictures along the way and even got on stage with one of the bands. Even with all our goofing off we managed to finish in 2 hours and 16 minutes! I was very happy since I hardly trained and did a lot of drinking prior to the run. :) Gotta carbo-load right? Jennifer is getting married in August. I'm planning her bachelorette party - we are going to run the Rock-n-Roll San Diego (full 26.2)! I can't wait!