Sara Runs the Cape

Disclaimer: I am promoting Athlinks as part of being a BibRave Pro. Learn more about becoming a BibRave Pro (ambassador), and check out BibRave.com to review or find race reviews. Being organized is something I pride myself on. If I won a million dollars, I would probably spend most of it at an office supply store buying EVERYTHING. I have 3 different planners. Yes, three. So yeah, I love when things are all in one place, organized, and easy to look at. One thing that really annoyed me when I started running was that even though I had a planner where I kept track of all of my runs, I didn’t really have a singular place to see all of my race results over the years and my PRs. Thankfully, I was introduced to Athlinks a few months ago. Athlinks is “the largest results database for competitive endurance athletes in the world.” Athlinks strives to not only provide runners, swimmers, cyclists, etc with their race results, but they hope to connect athletes in the...

"Disclaimer: I received free entry to the New Jersey(Half)Marathon as part of being a BibRave Pro. Learn more about becoming a BibRavePro (ambassador), and check out BibRave.com to review find and write race reviews!" Did someone say PR?! I still can’t quite believe that I PR’d two races in a row. And at the New Jersey (Half) Marathon, it was a pretty big one. New Jersey was a new state to cross off my list in a bid to run all of the East Coast states. I’ve had this race on my calendar since November I think and I’ve spent 18 weeks training. With that being said, I still can’t quite believe it’s over! I decided to make a long weekend out of the race, since I live about 5 hours away. I drove down on Saturday morning and promptly went to packet pick-up. I was SO impressed with the volunteers and how smoothly the pick-up was. I was in and had my bib in hand within 3 minutes. I’ve never had a packet pick-up go so quickly! Plus, everyone was so ...