A New Thanksgiving Tradition...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! Hope you all had a wonderful and relaxing day with all of the food and traditions that you needed to make it feel like Thanksgiving to you.


Paul and I actually did something a little different than in years past, and we think we might make it a Biles Family tradition in the future.

We started by waking up at 5:45am and getting ready for a 5 mile race in Austin. We drove to Austin and joined eight to ten thousand other people that were also crazy enough to go running that morning. The weather dropped about 35 degrees on Wed, so Thursday morning it felt like 37 degrees with the windchill...which was quite a difference from the 80 degree weather we had been training in.

The Turkey Trot (put on by Thunder Cloud Subs in Austin) was a super fun 5 mile race that went up and down many hills, but because there were so many people running on the streets, the hills weren't that bad - at least we were all suffering together, right?

Apparently there were 3 water stops along the way, but I only saw the 2nd one because of the number of people around me - I was so focused on not running into someone in front of me that I hardly had time to look to the sides (where the water was).

Here's our stats according to Paul's Garmin (his GPS stopwatch): We finished in 44:06 minutes. Our first mile was at a 9:29 pace, then we got faster from there - 2nd was 8:48, 3rd was 8:59, 4th was 8:34, and the 5th mile was 8:16.

Here are our official race results sorted by age and gender. (Once you get to the page, press Ctrl + F, and then type in Biles - it's the easiest way to find our results). You can also go here to find the other categories. If you went to A&M or UT, you could get a race number with the colors of the Aggies or the Longhorns...you can view those results from that page to see which school did the best if you care...but since I'm not a Texan and didn't go to either of those schools, I really don't care. :)

Here's another picture of the turkey at the beginning of this post. Yep - it's a haybale, with spraypainted tin roofing sections as the tails. They get pretty creative out here in the country. :)