I ran with my friends Amanda and Kerri. Amanda is an overachiever who has been running for years so she ran the 15k. Kerri and I are newbies so just the 5k for us. Kerri was a great running partner - we ran a 12:11 mile and finished at 37:55 minutes.
Here is a before photo.
And after.
It was so nice of Dad and Margaret to join Greg to cheer me on. Pretty awesome of them to wake up that early.
Kerri was cleaning house recently and gave us one of their old cat trees. The Fissell kitties LOVE it!
Especially Kittie Flo. I moved it over to the front window and they haven't moved from it all day! Thanks again Kerri!
Next week is the Sprint Tri in Hampton, VA. I have been training with Chris since early this year for it. Too bad the maniac decided to break a couple fingers BMX biking last week. Hopefully he will still be able to run with me, cause that is where I will need some help. One of these days I may actually like running. I am borrowing a friends road bike for the tri - it's the kind where your feet clip into the peddles. So everyone say a little prayer that I don't eat it. I already took a spill on it and have a pretty sweet bruise on my leg, but it's not IF you fall, it's WHEN you fall - so hopefully I got that out of the way. The best part of all this - and by best, I mean for others to point and laugh, was renting a wet suit. The give you a visual of me attempting to put on a wet suit, watch the episode of Friends where Ross is trying to put on the leather pants (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRLJXhlOf1M). OMG it was a workout in itself just getting that sucker ON! But once you get it zipped up you are even more jazzed to do the tri - mostly because I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. ACK! Maybe I should step up the running a couple more days a week. Or cut out the brownie, pudding, ice cream parfaits for dessert. NEVER! More running it is. And to give you a visual of me running, watch the episode of Friends where Phebe runs. Greg loves calling me Phoebe when I go running (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_0Ta_DIWuU). I would get upset if it wasn't true. :)
Especially Kittie Flo. I moved it over to the front window and they haven't moved from it all day! Thanks again Kerri!
Next week is the Sprint Tri in Hampton, VA. I have been training with Chris since early this year for it. Too bad the maniac decided to break a couple fingers BMX biking last week. Hopefully he will still be able to run with me, cause that is where I will need some help. One of these days I may actually like running. I am borrowing a friends road bike for the tri - it's the kind where your feet clip into the peddles. So everyone say a little prayer that I don't eat it. I already took a spill on it and have a pretty sweet bruise on my leg, but it's not IF you fall, it's WHEN you fall - so hopefully I got that out of the way. The best part of all this - and by best, I mean for others to point and laugh, was renting a wet suit. The give you a visual of me attempting to put on a wet suit, watch the episode of Friends where Ross is trying to put on the leather pants (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRLJXhlOf1M). OMG it was a workout in itself just getting that sucker ON! But once you get it zipped up you are even more jazzed to do the tri - mostly because I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. ACK! Maybe I should step up the running a couple more days a week. Or cut out the brownie, pudding, ice cream parfaits for dessert. NEVER! More running it is. And to give you a visual of me running, watch the episode of Friends where Phebe runs. Greg loves calling me Phoebe when I go running (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_0Ta_DIWuU). I would get upset if it wasn't true. :)
Check back next week for pics of the Tri. If I make it out of the Bay that is.
