Today was the Zooma Half Marathon in Annapolis, MD. I ran this race two years ago and had memories of it being hilly, but a nice race. Well, if anything the hills were worse this year! (The race course was changed). It was fun because I got to run through downtown/historic Annapolis, before heading to the Severn bridge and the hill that followed. The problem, aside from my lack of training, was the weather. The hills were jointed this year by the sun (and long stretches of the course that did not have shade) and humidity. I've done the NYC half in August and I didn't think it was as bad as today's run. I did a 10k in 1:08:37, compared to 1:00:25 on 15 May in, what I thought, was a beautiful running day. I finished today in 2:33:19, compared to 2:22:32 to finish the Pacer's half marathon a month ago in cold, windy conditions. I've been bad about running in the heat, but if I want to get used to it, I will have to run in it.
In more fun baking news. In the last month, I've helped co-host two baby showers. For the first, I made some flat bread pizza, which I really enjoyed. For this last one I made three types of cupcakes: chocolate with chocolate frosting, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and a blueberry cupcake with maple frosting. I really enjoyed it and I think they were well received. The chocolate one turned out the best though because of the frosting -- I really loved it (it was the hershey recipe).
Also, the the blueberry came out really well!
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