Wendy Mastripolito

Added a couple of new links to home page (will keep them on side under favorite race sites): Seashore Striders : They hold races down in the Rehoboth Beach area (I dont know how I forgot to add them to my original list since I access their site all the time) http://www.seashorestriders.com/ Athlinks: This is a great tool to look up other people's specs...find out a bit about the competition or just be nosy.. http://www.athlinks.com/default.aspx Running Calculator : Cool, try it out http://www.mcmillanrunning.com/mcmillanrunningcalculator.htm

I'm on AMAZON!!!! (click on pic for link)

Whether or not my political views match that of my mother’s… the fact that she believes in something so much that she would actually jump on a bus and head to Washington, DC (a good 2+ hour drive) is admirable… although crazy… still admirable.. So how did I find this out?.. I mean it's not like she outright told me… NO..I find this out casually… talking on the phone with her yesterday after work…. Wendy to Mom: So how is everything mom? Mom To Wendy: “Great.. I got a new purse that straps across my shoulders and should be really good for when I go to Washington..” S-C-R-E-E-C-H.. HALT>>>>>> !!!!! "UM… excuse me?… what do you mean Washington???".... (thinking perhaps I may not have heard her correctly ….mom is not the traveling type).. So she says she is going to Washington DC.. I said, "For what!?" …. she said, " For the tax protest" .. .. ....."TAX PROTEST???.... What Tax Protest…!!???" (There is a website about this ...

Man…. sometimes if something looks too good to be true.. IT IS!!!!…. Yesterday during our weekly shopping excursion to the Walmart , Joe haphazardly decided to bring me along… again… not good since the last two times he brought me… well he ended up spending way over the $$’s allocated for the trip.. so this time I promised him he wouldn ’t spend as much.. I only needed to get a couple little things..one being like a cork board or something to display pics… YEAH……I am screwed… this letter says it all:. I want to write a letter and thank Mr. Corkboard Dear Mr. Corkboard , I want to thank you for the exceptional value of your product that I purchased today at the Walmart . Four pieces of corkboard plus stickies to attach each board to the wall for only $5.97, I bought two packs. I couldn ’t wait to get home and adorn my walls with your product. You made it exceptionally easy to apply the sticky stuff to each corner and within ten minutes I had eight corkboards up on my wall and had atta...

This am... Joe completed his last long run... 20miles.. SOLO... took him 3 hours and 7 minutes.. so help me if he beats me in this marathon on September 13 th I will thump him...! Hee hee .. So both of us are now done our long runs for a few weeks... very nice.. !....perhaps now we will actually get something done around the house... 20 days until Lehigh Marathon................

Just for the record... it's one thing to train to complete a marathon...it's a totally different thing to actually train to race the blasted thing for a specific time..like a qualifying time.... For those who are just signing on.. I have been training all spring and summer to qualify for the Boston Marathon... I need a 3 hrs 50 mins (8:46 per mile pace) to do so. I am racing Lehigh Marathon on September 13th as the first attempt to do so.. if I don't make it then, I have Rehoboth Marathon on November 21st. 2010 QUALIFYING STANDARDS NOW....Just for the record.... if I have to hold this pace for 26.2 miles.. my legs will fall the F- off!!!... i am MOST certain of it!!!....I just don’t know... 21 days until the Lehigh Marathon..September 13th...am I ready???.. you bet!.... but bring a stretcher...! This is how today's LAST long run panned out: Decided to run my long run today instead of tomorrow.. to get it out of the way.. kinda ticked Joe off.. because he said he needed...

SO perhaps it was not the smartest maneuver.....and perhaps this is why we don’t gamble. But when you see this warning.. YOU DON’T GO OUT.. DUH. Seems fairly simple..right!?....so what do we do when we receive this warning?..UM..go running of course.. DUH.... A severe thunderstorm warning was issued for our area around 6:45pm.... stating a severe thunderstorm with winds in excess of 70 miles per hour, large hail and ground to something lightening was heading our way, they went as far as to give us a precise time it would arrive in the Glenmoore area, 7:20pm. Like the weather people are NEVER accurate… whatever… so I rang Joe to see how close he was to home and to tell him of our impending doom. …WHATEVER… Um….it sure felt like it was going to storm… it sure “smelled” like it was going to storm… and yeah I am sure we are going to get whacked.. WHATEVER...we got to get the run in.. PERHAPS if we run fast enough we will outrun it... I am sorry when did you become an olympic 5,000 meter sp...

Joe's First Duathlon ... he did AMAZING! Not only did he NOT get stung by a bee, or hit by a dart, he went out and ran one of his fastest ever run times.. GO FIGURE!!! And that was before and AFTER a 20 mile bike..! .....THE BUBBLE BOY HAS SOME TALENT ! ............ CONGRATS JOE!

It's been F-O-R-E-V-E-R since I wrote.. I know.. but two weeks of non drama was great... here are some tid bits going back to where I left off... the 100 Mile Bike Event on July 25th.... Saturday, July 25th – Dream Lancaster Century (100 Mile Bike Ride) Joe and I had to get up at some un-godly hour like 3:45am in order to leave by 4:15am in order to get to Lancaster by 6am... talk about wow... who is stupid enough to want to do this on their day off..???.... yeah that’s us...me and the Bubble Boy... in the car we go.. me driving ...Bubble Boy in a coma.. eyes rolling around inside his head. It was REALLY foggy... like serial creepy fog..and made for some extra tricky driving.. thankfully Bubble Boy was sound asleep and not driving.. I was hoping our friend Denise (who was meeting us there) wouldn’t have any issues.... We arrive around 5:30am and started our process of getting ready for the ride, checking the bike tire pressure, filling the water bottles, preparing the fuel, you kn...