A and Velma
Bench Bar Halloween Run
So I finally ran again!
Went and ran the Bench Bar 5 miler this morning with Su. Weather was perfect for it. Wasn't sure how I would run since I haven't raced anything short in awhile and I have only really ran twice since Columbus.
I did okay though! Second place overall and 1st in my age group. 35:46ish
This is the only size shirt they had left!
This is the costume participants. The guy on the left is the CIA leak. :) Last year he was a hanging chad!
Grover says drink your juice kids!
They had some awesome food and beverages afterwards! Cider and Donuts! Now I remember why I wanted to run this one again!
Su came second in our age group just shutting down the other girl on the finishing hill!! Woot Woot!
Here are my splits
Mile 1: 6:43
2: 6:52
3: 7:10
4: 7:48
5: 7:10
Everyone I talked to had a slow 4th mile so that one may have been mismarked a little bit. But at the time I was thinking crud I am slowing WAY down! And had to pick it up if I wanted to finish under 36. I really need to work on running an even split race. Obviously my first two miles were too fast. If I had just gone out a 7 minute mile pace I may have been able to hold on for 35 even.
Next year more track workouts and I will go back and crush the blonde lawyer girl with headphones who took first ;) (Or so B has informed me!)
At mile 2 my contact fell out so I ran the rest of the race with it in my mouth! It survived and is back in its proper place!
My legs are tight now from standing around in the cold after the race.
I have to get some work done and then I am off to go home and hang with hubby before the party tonight!
Went and ran the Bench Bar 5 miler this morning with Su. Weather was perfect for it. Wasn't sure how I would run since I haven't raced anything short in awhile and I have only really ran twice since Columbus.
I did okay though! Second place overall and 1st in my age group. 35:46ish
This is the only size shirt they had left!
This is the costume participants. The guy on the left is the CIA leak. :) Last year he was a hanging chad!
Grover says drink your juice kids!
They had some awesome food and beverages afterwards! Cider and Donuts! Now I remember why I wanted to run this one again!
Su came second in our age group just shutting down the other girl on the finishing hill!! Woot Woot!
Here are my splits
Mile 1: 6:43
2: 6:52
3: 7:10
4: 7:48
5: 7:10
Everyone I talked to had a slow 4th mile so that one may have been mismarked a little bit. But at the time I was thinking crud I am slowing WAY down! And had to pick it up if I wanted to finish under 36. I really need to work on running an even split race. Obviously my first two miles were too fast. If I had just gone out a 7 minute mile pace I may have been able to hold on for 35 even.
Next year more track workouts and I will go back and crush the blonde lawyer girl with headphones who took first ;) (Or so B has informed me!)
At mile 2 my contact fell out so I ran the rest of the race with it in my mouth! It survived and is back in its proper place!
My legs are tight now from standing around in the cold after the race.
I have to get some work done and then I am off to go home and hang with hubby before the party tonight!
Not Perfect
But it will have to do...
Warning: Do not attempt to throw together a perfect costume in a 20 minute run through JCPenney's. You WILL NOT succeed.
Note: No orange knee highs
Note: Skirt is not red
Note: Shoes are not Red (Found perfect shoes but for $40 I just couldn't do it)
Note: Glasses are not big enough
Note: Hair is red, not brown. (But I will not give in to bangs with my real do!)
Note: Sweater is more of a peach than orange.
Meh.
Can you even guess who I am supposed to be?
Tomorrow night should be better when I have hubby and props in tow.
I got Leid...
at the TNT Kickoff!
No workout today. Woke up a wee bit late and tonight was the Team in Training Kickoff.
We have a HUGE group doing the Cleveland Marathon and the Wildflower Tri has pulled in a very big group for that also.
I am exhausted.
Mentor KR is a superstar and she got all of the triathletes lei's. Coach K was nice enough to give me his so I didn't feel left out. (I am still a triathlete at heart, just can't join in on this one)
I should have lots of fun pictures coming from the next couple nights! Halloween parties galore! I still have to go get my outfit. Here's hoping I will find what I need tomorrow before the party!
No workout today. Woke up a wee bit late and tonight was the Team in Training Kickoff.
We have a HUGE group doing the Cleveland Marathon and the Wildflower Tri has pulled in a very big group for that also.
I am exhausted.
Mentor KR is a superstar and she got all of the triathletes lei's. Coach K was nice enough to give me his so I didn't feel left out. (I am still a triathlete at heart, just can't join in on this one)
I should have lots of fun pictures coming from the next couple nights! Halloween parties galore! I still have to go get my outfit. Here's hoping I will find what I need tomorrow before the party!
Tight
My calves are TIGHT! We went to the tow path tonight and ran in the rain. It had been a week so anything shy of a tornado and I would have been running. It was nice to have some crazy friends along for the ride.
We got in 6.5 miles in 57:22. Somewhere around 9 minute miles. I definitely didn't feel like I was out for a stroll but I didn't feel like I was racing a 10k either so that is good.
It was pretty cold and it got dark pretty quick so I was struggling to see towards the end. I forgot my contacts so I had to run with the glasses and I bailed on those because they were getting fogged and wet. Looked pretty ridiculous in my Tiger's visor, wind jacket, and $3 Boston shorts :)
We all went to Hoggy's afterwards for some grub. Su gave in to the dark side:
I was disappointed but I guess it will make it easier to cook for her ;)
Tried to take care of all our insurance/hospital bill woes today. My goodness the hospital billing department is incompetent. I think I solved the collection agency problems, but during the process I found two other bills that never went to insurance, as well as three claims from insurance that we never got hospital bills for. YIKES!
What is up with the word verification for posting? Does blogger think a spam bot is going to post to my blog? Is this only because I was using Hello to add pics or what? This could get annoying...
On a good note me and B2 are official 2006 Boston entrants, who's coming with us?
We got in 6.5 miles in 57:22. Somewhere around 9 minute miles. I definitely didn't feel like I was out for a stroll but I didn't feel like I was racing a 10k either so that is good.
It was pretty cold and it got dark pretty quick so I was struggling to see towards the end. I forgot my contacts so I had to run with the glasses and I bailed on those because they were getting fogged and wet. Looked pretty ridiculous in my Tiger's visor, wind jacket, and $3 Boston shorts :)
We all went to Hoggy's afterwards for some grub. Su gave in to the dark side:
I was disappointed but I guess it will make it easier to cook for her ;)
Tried to take care of all our insurance/hospital bill woes today. My goodness the hospital billing department is incompetent. I think I solved the collection agency problems, but during the process I found two other bills that never went to insurance, as well as three claims from insurance that we never got hospital bills for. YIKES!
What is up with the word verification for posting? Does blogger think a spam bot is going to post to my blog? Is this only because I was using Hello to add pics or what? This could get annoying...
On a good note me and B2 are official 2006 Boston entrants, who's coming with us?
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