Brief:
- Rain
- Dead fish, Chop, and Jelly fish
- Rain
- 25 min Flat tire and chain issue
- Rain
- Road flooding..with Fish
- Rain
- Bugs
- Rain
- DARK.. DARK.. DARK
- Did I mention Rain?
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
RIVERRUN 5K RUN/WALK
On Sunday, I decided that I would drive to Charlestown Maryland which is a scenic water town in northeastern Maryland so I could run the RiverRun 5K and then scoot over to Elk Neck State Park and get in some open water swimming…I am very glad I did this race… not only was the course challenging and fun but they had a festival going on and the town was alive with fun things to do. However, I could have done without the 90 some degree heat and humidity... but heck we cant get it all!
Here is my race report:
Sunday was race in Charlestown, Maryland.... took 1 hr 15 mins to get there... 11am race.. it was HOTTER THAN H-ll... thinking around 90 degrees with high humidity... got completely drenched in just the warm up...
Tried to be conservative.. felt like my head was going to blow off at mile 2...got really really dizzy...thankfully dumped water on head at aid station... course was great..really challenging with some good rollers and one really painful hill at mile 3.. but it made you honest! The heat really does me in ...
My splits were:
7.30, 15.45, 24.03.. took me almost a minute to do last .12.. which I think was because of a rather large hill at mile 3.. ended with a 25 flat.. not my best time but happy to be alive! I was 3rd overall female, first women masters.. RiverRun 5K Results
Friday, September 12, 2008
COOLEST ITEMS
NOW I do just find the COOLEST items… um...no laughing!!!… its called PaceTat…
..... what is it??? WELL>.. its a temporary Pace Chart Tattoo that you put on your arm .. you know like those cracker jack tattoos but only a lot better!!!
And so while you are racing… you can check to see if you are running at your target pace … and it comes off with baby oil.. so it's NOT PERMANENT...and oh come on.... AINT THAT THE NEATEST THING!!!!…. ??.. OK… soo go ahead and giggle .. !!!
...but you all will be crying and green with jealousy because I will have it and you wont.. and...
... .. I was debating how how to remember all the time splits for the C&D marathon ...say if I wanted to try and qualify for Boston or break 4 hours...
.. and so I was going to print up the specs and carry a piece of paper with me… but this .. is so much better… now minus the fact that I am accident prone and I don’t really need anything more to distract me.. and can you imagine me looking at my arm trying to read while running … ???
...and the fact that I couldn’t decide what one to get.. like do I want to run really hard, hard, or kinda hard.. tee…hee.. and so I got three of them.. 3.50, 4.00, and 4.30… and what do I do with three when I only have two arms.. ? SLAP one on my leg… ???? And I wonder if I should get one for Joe???
Those are MINOR details .. I just want to know how queer I am going to look! .. OH I CANT wait!
PaceTat Website Description: PaceTat has been designed to make it easy to keep track of your pace while training or racing. Simply apply to your forearm before running and you'll have a durable and easy-to-read reminder of your running goals…
..... what is it??? WELL>.. its a temporary Pace Chart Tattoo that you put on your arm .. you know like those cracker jack tattoos but only a lot better!!!
And so while you are racing… you can check to see if you are running at your target pace … and it comes off with baby oil.. so it's NOT PERMANENT...and oh come on.... AINT THAT THE NEATEST THING!!!!…. ??.. OK… soo go ahead and giggle .. !!!
...but you all will be crying and green with jealousy because I will have it and you wont.. and...
... .. I was debating how how to remember all the time splits for the C&D marathon ...say if I wanted to try and qualify for Boston or break 4 hours...
.. and so I was going to print up the specs and carry a piece of paper with me… but this .. is so much better… now minus the fact that I am accident prone and I don’t really need anything more to distract me.. and can you imagine me looking at my arm trying to read while running … ???
...and the fact that I couldn’t decide what one to get.. like do I want to run really hard, hard, or kinda hard.. tee…hee.. and so I got three of them.. 3.50, 4.00, and 4.30… and what do I do with three when I only have two arms.. ? SLAP one on my leg… ???? And I wonder if I should get one for Joe???
Those are MINOR details .. I just want to know how queer I am going to look! .. OH I CANT wait!
PaceTat Website Description: PaceTat has been designed to make it easy to keep track of your pace while training or racing. Simply apply to your forearm before running and you'll have a durable and easy-to-read reminder of your running goals…
Monday, September 8, 2008
HANDY MAN
I LOVE having a handy man as a hubby……
Not only did Joe take the time yesterday to fix my truck.. that I so.. nicely misshaped.. he also managed to fix our outside garage light that hasn’t been working for say.. a few months… adding a new fangled sensor light… HE IS SOO AWESOME!
So I am out the door this am to head to Y.. and its still very dark out.. and so I make it down our walkway and to the driveway and SHAZAAMMM!!!!.
........10,000 VOLTS OF LIGHT go screaming through my skull.. HOLY SH_T… I CANNOT see a thing.. I stagger around ...hands up in air trying to protect face.. stumble.. grrr.. I think my optic nerves are fried!!!!!… ARRRGG…
I run back inside to tell Joe.. blink .. blink… OMG I think the light is a bit much… it BEAMS ALL THE WAY INTO THE cul-de-sac…!!! and its going to wake the neighbors… [even though they are like an acre away from us]…and yikees…
And so he mumbles something about it only staying on for 10 or was that 30 seconds???? OH … yeah.. ok… back outside I go… I am still seeing spots… and its pitch black out.. and HELLO???!!! I make it to the truck and SHAZAAM!!!!!!!
10,000 SCREAMING LIGHT PARTICLE S pierce my skull again.. …..just tell them your name and serial number and they will stop!!!
I find the truck I cant imagine how this is safer than not having a light… and I think I definitely need an aspirin. AND do I sound ungrateful!??
Side note: Joe is awesome.. I am lucky to have him and he really does great handy man work. Even if he wont let me fix anything…
Not only did Joe take the time yesterday to fix my truck.. that I so.. nicely misshaped.. he also managed to fix our outside garage light that hasn’t been working for say.. a few months… adding a new fangled sensor light… HE IS SOO AWESOME!
So I am out the door this am to head to Y.. and its still very dark out.. and so I make it down our walkway and to the driveway and SHAZAAMMM!!!!.
........10,000 VOLTS OF LIGHT go screaming through my skull.. HOLY SH_T… I CANNOT see a thing.. I stagger around ...hands up in air trying to protect face.. stumble.. grrr.. I think my optic nerves are fried!!!!!… ARRRGG…
I run back inside to tell Joe.. blink .. blink… OMG I think the light is a bit much… it BEAMS ALL THE WAY INTO THE cul-de-sac…!!! and its going to wake the neighbors… [even though they are like an acre away from us]…and yikees…
And so he mumbles something about it only staying on for 10 or was that 30 seconds???? OH … yeah.. ok… back outside I go… I am still seeing spots… and its pitch black out.. and HELLO???!!! I make it to the truck and SHAZAAM!!!!!!!
10,000 SCREAMING LIGHT PARTICLE S pierce my skull again.. …..just tell them your name and serial number and they will stop!!!
I find the truck I cant imagine how this is safer than not having a light… and I think I definitely need an aspirin. AND do I sound ungrateful!??
Side note: Joe is awesome.. I am lucky to have him and he really does great handy man work. Even if he wont let me fix anything…
Sunday, September 7, 2008
SAG WAGON
On Saturday… I was the sag wagon…
Joe had to get his 18 mile run in… as did our friends Denise & Gary .. so with all good intentions I convinced them that 6:30 am on Saturday morning (amongst the monsoon of a tropical storm) would be a perfect time to meet up at a local park for the 18 miler… nice and flat… perhaps a bit moist but none the less flat..
I myself was on a taper for Chessy man… so I only had to run 8… so the thoughts were I would run out with them for 4, run back by myself 4..as they would continued on… I would get back to truck, hop on my MTB bike with a backpack full of bottled water and haul a-s to catch them.. thus provide sag support… Great stuff… right!???
Well…. when we woke on Saturday @ 5am… not only did I have double bags under my eyes the humidity was at 95%. …geez…. another swamp run! ….we scraped our tired butts out of bed and into the car.. meeting up with Denise and Gary… it was still kinda darkish and the gates for the park were still closed… didn’t think of that.. so we stood around discussing where we would park…. here.. no how about there..?? no ...how about over there???.
So I decided to move my truck from the service road over just a bit... so no one would hit it.. oh yeah... really funny .. since I took out the right corner panel of my truck.. C-R-U-N-C-H…. hitting a 6x4 cemented wood pylon!!.
NOW who puts a pylon in the middle of a service road… !!!!?????
[ok.. so I admit.. actually it really was NOT in the middle of the road… but jeez it mines of well been..] ..you would have thought I hit the thing at like 40 mph..!!!
Not only did I take out the pylon… I took out my front panel in which now you cannot even open the passenger door, and its all crumbled up and JEEZ>> JEEZ>>> JEEZ!!!!!!!
well… Joe was VERY VERY QUIET… Denise made mention, “wow he took that well”… quiet is NOT WELL!!
Alas… we start off on our run under the tone that ….well now thats outta the way... I am sure not much more can happen.. right???!
Within a mile we were all soaked… but we trudged on…. when we got to mile 4, I peeled off and ran back to get the MTB bike.. Joe, Gary, and Denise carried on..
On my return back, my pace so tanked with 2 miles left.. I was lucky to crawl back to truck… Once back to truck .. I SOO SERIOUSLY thought of not returning.. honest... I was toast... but alas they were out there and counting on me.. and most surely would kick my butt if I did not return.
SO like the good little sag wagon… I got the MTB out of truck, glancing over at damaged truck panel, shook head, put helmet and backpack on… and headed down path.. I calculated in my twisted mind that I could catch up to them around mile 11 or so if I go 20 miles an hour …..
Now the fact that I was on my MTB bike and that I had these really huge tires with only like 45 pounds of pressure in them.. and a backpack on which instantly added 15 pounds of weight... well all this should have been an indication that unless I was super girl I was NOT pulling 20 mph on this MTB bike.... I finally catch up to them and I see Denise and Joe… I stop and they refuel… Joe says I need to find more water…
I leave them and get to Gary who is only slightly behind them and he refuels and then I turn around an haul a-s to find more water for them… after going a few miles and frantically searching the surrounding areas I realize that the closest water fountain is still 4 miles down road… so I race back to tell them this….
I then go and find Gary to also tell him this… I get to Gary and realize my front tire is about to fall off… I had to stop ASAP and screw it back on.. I only stopped for one second.. and was almost done screwing it back on (mind you still on my bike) and this all takes total 10 seconds.. when an A-HOLE… guy.. on a race bike.. thinking he is all that.. .. zipping along..passes us and says, NOT A GOOD PLACE TO STOP!”
[.. WHAT THE F_!!!]…. I SCREAM…., “MY tire was about to fall off A_SHOLE… !!!!” I mean what the F_... !!
He is probably one of those people when someone’s car breaks down in the road screams at the person like they wanted it to breakdown right in front of him.. just to inconvenience him.. AND BY THE WAY.. he could have easily gone around me without any ado..
People like that soo piss me off… Who do they think they are!!!!! I ride my regular race bike on this same path and yes its hard to reduce your speed from 22 to 17 but HELLO this is not only a bike path… it’s a walking and jogging path and IT AINT yours buddy..you aint the only person in the world!!! AND DEAL with things that happen!!! AND GRRRR>>>>
So Gary unaffected by my sudden outburst and me possible putting the beat down on this guy we continue on.. I ride besides Gary as he runs… after a few miles I see Joe up ahead by himself…I haul up to him and find out he REALLY needs water so I say ok.. I will go to the next fountain… I spend the next few miles up and down path.. getting water, dispersing it to the folks and riding besides them… WHEW.. being a sag wagon is tough work!
Alas… they all got their 18 miles in.. I did 8 miles on run plus 17 on bike.. one damaged truck and one almost beat down… I think everyone went home and took naps… life of a marathoner!
Joe had to get his 18 mile run in… as did our friends Denise & Gary .. so with all good intentions I convinced them that 6:30 am on Saturday morning (amongst the monsoon of a tropical storm) would be a perfect time to meet up at a local park for the 18 miler… nice and flat… perhaps a bit moist but none the less flat..
I myself was on a taper for Chessy man… so I only had to run 8… so the thoughts were I would run out with them for 4, run back by myself 4..as they would continued on… I would get back to truck, hop on my MTB bike with a backpack full of bottled water and haul a-s to catch them.. thus provide sag support… Great stuff… right!???
Well…. when we woke on Saturday @ 5am… not only did I have double bags under my eyes the humidity was at 95%. …geez…. another swamp run! ….we scraped our tired butts out of bed and into the car.. meeting up with Denise and Gary… it was still kinda darkish and the gates for the park were still closed… didn’t think of that.. so we stood around discussing where we would park…. here.. no how about there..?? no ...how about over there???.
So I decided to move my truck from the service road over just a bit... so no one would hit it.. oh yeah... really funny .. since I took out the right corner panel of my truck.. C-R-U-N-C-H…. hitting a 6x4 cemented wood pylon!!.
NOW who puts a pylon in the middle of a service road… !!!!?????
[ok.. so I admit.. actually it really was NOT in the middle of the road… but jeez it mines of well been..] ..you would have thought I hit the thing at like 40 mph..!!!
Not only did I take out the pylon… I took out my front panel in which now you cannot even open the passenger door, and its all crumbled up and JEEZ>> JEEZ>>> JEEZ!!!!!!!
well… Joe was VERY VERY QUIET… Denise made mention, “wow he took that well”… quiet is NOT WELL!!
Alas… we start off on our run under the tone that ….well now thats outta the way... I am sure not much more can happen.. right???!
Within a mile we were all soaked… but we trudged on…. when we got to mile 4, I peeled off and ran back to get the MTB bike.. Joe, Gary, and Denise carried on..
On my return back, my pace so tanked with 2 miles left.. I was lucky to crawl back to truck… Once back to truck .. I SOO SERIOUSLY thought of not returning.. honest... I was toast... but alas they were out there and counting on me.. and most surely would kick my butt if I did not return.
SO like the good little sag wagon… I got the MTB out of truck, glancing over at damaged truck panel, shook head, put helmet and backpack on… and headed down path.. I calculated in my twisted mind that I could catch up to them around mile 11 or so if I go 20 miles an hour …..
Now the fact that I was on my MTB bike and that I had these really huge tires with only like 45 pounds of pressure in them.. and a backpack on which instantly added 15 pounds of weight... well all this should have been an indication that unless I was super girl I was NOT pulling 20 mph on this MTB bike.... I finally catch up to them and I see Denise and Joe… I stop and they refuel… Joe says I need to find more water…
I leave them and get to Gary who is only slightly behind them and he refuels and then I turn around an haul a-s to find more water for them… after going a few miles and frantically searching the surrounding areas I realize that the closest water fountain is still 4 miles down road… so I race back to tell them this….
I then go and find Gary to also tell him this… I get to Gary and realize my front tire is about to fall off… I had to stop ASAP and screw it back on.. I only stopped for one second.. and was almost done screwing it back on (mind you still on my bike) and this all takes total 10 seconds.. when an A-HOLE… guy.. on a race bike.. thinking he is all that.. .. zipping along..passes us and says, NOT A GOOD PLACE TO STOP!”
[.. WHAT THE F_!!!]…. I SCREAM…., “MY tire was about to fall off A_SHOLE… !!!!” I mean what the F_... !!
He is probably one of those people when someone’s car breaks down in the road screams at the person like they wanted it to breakdown right in front of him.. just to inconvenience him.. AND BY THE WAY.. he could have easily gone around me without any ado..
People like that soo piss me off… Who do they think they are!!!!! I ride my regular race bike on this same path and yes its hard to reduce your speed from 22 to 17 but HELLO this is not only a bike path… it’s a walking and jogging path and IT AINT yours buddy..you aint the only person in the world!!! AND DEAL with things that happen!!! AND GRRRR>>>>
So Gary unaffected by my sudden outburst and me possible putting the beat down on this guy we continue on.. I ride besides Gary as he runs… after a few miles I see Joe up ahead by himself…I haul up to him and find out he REALLY needs water so I say ok.. I will go to the next fountain… I spend the next few miles up and down path.. getting water, dispersing it to the folks and riding besides them… WHEW.. being a sag wagon is tough work!
Alas… they all got their 18 miles in.. I did 8 miles on run plus 17 on bike.. one damaged truck and one almost beat down… I think everyone went home and took naps… life of a marathoner!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
AND WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YOUR FREE TIME?
This was my last big training weekend before Chessy Man.. it was what I consider my warrior weekend… where I condense my training into a few days to see how I will fair.. ….
Friday night.. I prepped my body for a nice long swim.. after an hour and a half of pool bliss… I exited a bit moist, a bit tired.. AND A LOT OF BIT HUNGRY…..I sure hope I aint this hungry when I exit the Chessy Man swim.. .jeez…
On Saturday we wake up early to get started on our long run and I cannot move my left arm and shoulder.. huh… I think I may have thrown it out swimming.. I ice it, Bengay it.. and hoped for the best..
6am and off we go… 95% humidity...aha…I am sure LOVING THESE swamp runs… . 2 hours and 45 minutes later I put up the white flag….. ENOUGH… I ended up only doing 16 miles….. Joe proceeded to get in another mile.. covering a little over 17 miles…. My quads were toast..I am toast… I just want to lay down and die… DIE!>……
I promise Joe that since we had a long weekend, that Monday would be our sleep in day… because Sunday we had to get up early and head out for some bike work… a little more than a half century later on crappy rolling Chester County hills. .. 58 miles to be exact… we completed our weekend…
So Monday is a rest day… and what do we do… ???? GO SHOPPING… yes!!! Boy it’s great to have free time! Joe treats me to some cool fall and Halloween stuff… in which I promptly put together a Halloween Christmas Tree… !
AHHHH… LIFE IS GOOD!
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