rock n' roll arizona's marathon and half marathon

so, my best friend, judy and i make it a point to travel somewhere together every year. we've been to london, atlanta, las vegas, etc. this year, judy suggested we train for a race, and make that our trip - wonderful idea! in her mind this is a maybe - in my mind, we're doing it!

for the months of april and may, we dedicated most of our weekend to running in local fun runs, which sparked our interest in completing a half marathon. so, we looked around, and found the p.f. chang's rock n' roll half marathon and marathon in arizona. it looks like fun, and there are a ton of reasons we should pick this one:

1.) we have a friend (krista) in grad school at asu that we could visit
2.) it supports research for hodgkin's lymphoma
3.) it's in january and the weather will be great
4.) we have loads of time to train
5.) there's live music all along the course!
6.) we would get buff
7.) it would be tons o' fun!!!!

the list could go on and on. anyhow, check out the race info at:
http://www.rnraz.com