It slipped my mind for this entry, but I had a great time in New Orleans.  Definitely worth the trip and would recommend the visit.  The marathon was kind of blah though.

It was my first 'Rock-n-Roll' marathon and I kept a skeptical eye about the event.  I really don't like big events and this was just so commercialized that it made me even more skeptical about it.  The theme being rock-n-roll music along the way and it's a big party.  I'd say that's true for the 80% of the runners doing the Half Marathon, but once we split from the first half, the back half felt pretty neglected.

It also got really hot and the back half was almost entirely exposed with little shade.  Right around mile 20 I really started to feel the heat and took ice packs from a med tent on my head for the rest of the run.  It was the heat that eventually got to me and I had to walk a bit to keep from throwing up.  I did do some video blogging along the way (not live streaming as that turned out to be a disaster at the NYC marathon) and posted it after the race.

Bonus was having Nili run me in the last 200 yards to the finish.  Got a great photo of us together running.