Akron Blue Line Training Run

I voluntarily woke up at 4:45 am on a Saturday to run the Akron Blue Line with a couple hundred crazy runners. The Blue Line Training Run is a free event sponsored by Vertical Runner where runners can check out part of the course for the Akron Marathon and Half Marathon. Other contributors were Northeast Ohio Fit, the Towpath Turtles, YMCA Marathon 101, and New Balance. Thanks to these sponsors, runners had aid stations with water, Gatorade, and PowerBar Gels along the mapped out 12- and 20-mile routes, as well as goody bags with PowerBars. Some lucky ducks even got free socks!

I didn’t get to run this event last year because of my broken foot, but I did run the aid station for the Towpath Turtles, which you can read about here. I was so excited to run with my peeps: Joy, Mandy, Carrie, and Renee. Even the sucky weather (soooo hot and muggy) couldn’t keep us from having a great time.

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