Our family was in Virginia Beach this weekend for a wedding, so naturally we had to go on a twelve-mile destination run along the boardwalk on Saturday morning! After running on this asphalt trail for about a block, we realized that it was for bikes and we moved over to the concrete boardwalk for the remainder of our run.
It wouldn’t be a Saturday run if I didn’t take at least a few pictures along the way! Here are Bill and Julie standing in front of the King Neptune statue.
And so I wouldn’t be jealous, Julie took a picture of Bill and me! What do you think of King Neptune’s six-pack? Impressive, no? And anyone that can palm a turtle is a king in my book!
I stopped to take a picture of this old coast guard station located next to a high rise hotel. The station on the Outer Banks is out in the middle of the sand standing all alone, and it’s quite a contrast to how the city has built up around this station!
There was a porta-potty about every two blocks so I was the happiest runner on earth! AND… I didn’t even use one! There were also two public restrooms on our three-mile course, and I may or may not have stopped to use one of them!
We ran past the fishing pier and our legs begged us to run down the wooden boardwalk, but it cost eight dollars to enter. Since Julie only had four dollars with her, and Bill and I had a combined total of zero, we couldn’t go!
I took a side view picture of the pier so you could see it, and so I could annoy my legs a little more about having to run on the concrete boardwalk and not this soft wooden pier.
I wanted to rent one of these buggies, but since we would still have to work our legs pedaling it, we decided to skip it. And, there was that little issue of only having four dollars.
Vans was setting up for the 4-Star Vans Pro and Pro Junior competition on the 1st Street Jetty. It will be running in conjunction with the East Coast Surfing Championships. It starts on Monday and runs through next weekend.
Pretty cool, huh!
Labor Day weekend Virginia Beach will be hosting the Rock ‘N’ Roll Half Marathon. We ran it several years on a very hot and humid day. We got to see Hootie & the Blowfish perform after the race on the beach. It was a great destination race!
I’ve never tried stand up paddle boarding, but it’s on my bucket list. This guy was working some pretty choppy water at Rudee’s Inlet, and I’m sure his core felt it!
When we finished our out-and-back six mile run twice, our GPS showed we were still a quarter mile short of twelve miles, so we did what any good runner would do and we ran around the parking lot a few times and back down the boardwalk until we hit the magic number! While running around the parking lot, look what we found… Matt and Kari’s names on the sign!
Fast forward to the wedding, and look at this guy! Is my hubby the best or what? Wine refills all around! After running for twelve miles yesterday morning and dancing for over two hours last night, we needed to replace those calories we were burning!
Sorry, but if you usually get a Christmas card from us, either close your eyes and don’t look at this picture or forget that you saw it, because it will be coming to a mailbox near you in December!
- Questions:
- Have you ever been to Virginia Beach?
- What cool statue does your city or town have?
- Do you like weddings?
that last picture is great!! glad you guys had a good time this weekend 🙂
We were taking lots of mental notes, too! 🙂
Such a wonderful weekend recap!!! I loved reading it and wish we could relive the past couple of days – I had SO MUCH FUN!!!
It was so fun having you with us! 🙂
Ahh boardwalk running in VA Beach. That concrete sure does wear on you after awhile. I was just there for work for a week back in April and did all my running on the boardwalk. I was so envious of the paved bike path, but I’m just not a rule breaker.
My town doesn’t have a cool statue, but we do have a cool clock tower on top of the courthouse. The bell tolls every hour during the day.
I love weddings! Drinks all around! (Okay, so I may have borrowed that line from ole Captain Sparrow)
Now that you mention it, I remember you posting a picture of the sign that showed that the asphalt trail was for bikers and the concrete boardwalk was for walkers. I’ll have to go back and reread your posts about your runs. We didn’t see the sign until we got to the end of the first block, and we immediately got on the boardwalk. We wondered if we could play dumb and say the picture was of a walker, not runner, so we weren’t sure where we were supposed to be! 😉
Virginia Beach looks awesome! Thanks for the running tour!
I used to love weddings but then the year we got married we had nine and I had my fill!
Nine weddings in one year would do it to anyone! 🙂
Ah! Sounds like a great run and a super fun wedding. Great family picture, too! What a guy for bringing wine refills. I bet you needed it!
The wedding was one of the most fun I’ve ever been to! They set the bar pretty high! 🙂
Great family picture! I heard it was a terrific wedding!
It was fantastic, and I’m sure Julie told you all about it! We were like sponges soaking up ideas!
Singapore is rather famous for its “Merlion” statues (head of a lion/body of a fish). Theoretically, the fish part represents Singapore’s history as a fishing village, and the lion part comes from Singapore’s original name: Singapura, which means “Lion City” in Malay.
But now, the statues are mostly tools of the Tourism Board. 🙂 There are 3 or 4 of them around the island.
I learned something new today! Thanks!
What a great family picture! Your weather looks like ours was down in Nags Head. Don’t think I’ll ever run their RnR Half… TOO HOT!
Thanks! The rain “almost” held out until our run was over. When it started raining on us it felt very refreshing! 🙂
Looks like you guys had a blast! I’ve been to VA Beach a few times – I went to undergrad at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, so it wasn’t too far. Palming a sea turtle is indeed quite the accomplishment!
I’ve always dabbled with the idea of the VA Beach R&R half, but it always conflicted with soccer season when I lived down there, so my coach never let me, ha.
We did have a ton of fun! We enjoyed the race back when we ran it, but I probably wouldn’t do that particular Rock ‘n’ Roll again.
How fun! Love that family picture!
I don’t think I’ve been to VA Beach.
We have a ton of statues in our town. Ponce de Leon, the lions, and all kinds of things like that. We are very historical 🙂
Thanks!
Looks like you had a wonderful weekend and what a great looking family!
Thanks, and it was a blast! 🙂