Sunday, February 22, 2009

My Sixth Picture

It appears I have been tagged by Cathy to post the sixth picture in my sixth picture folder. My sixth picture folder is named "Family Pictures 1998-2006". Oh goody.

Now if the picture isn't of me, this will be good. But no such luck.

Here it is:



I think this photo was taken by my now 15 year old daughter. Judging from the other pictures with it, it was taken around May, 2003. Not much else to say about it.

How about I do what Cathy did and go from the bottom?

Much better. From the "scenery" folder:



Taken on an outing with my nature photography class. Brice Creek, up out of Cottage Grove. Very pretty day.

I don't know 6 people that blog, so I am not going to list 6 other people to carry on. I am such a rebel. Or (more likely, heh) a social outcast.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

5k Race

I have been wanting to enter a 5k race for a while now--just to see what time I can get. Racing a stand alone 5k is very different from a triathlon 5k, and different than just going for a run, at least for me, so I can't just go out and run 5k (3.1 miles) and record the time. That Wouldn't Work.

Well, a few weeks back we were leaving the pool after family swim time and I saw a flyer for the "Couples Classic 5k" to be held there at the park on (very appropriately) Saturday, February 14. Oh, I wished I could sign up! But it is a couples race, and even though they accept individual entries, I really didn't want to race a couples race without being part of a couple. Not to mention the t-shirt would say "couples classic". No thank you. So I lamented and sighed and whined to Daren a little bit about why can't he just run with me any way because I really don't care about his time, just mine, and I also really don't care how we would place as a couple. Really.

Nope. Not interested.

Until last Wednesday he called me up and asked if I still wanted to enter the race, and if so I had better do it that day because it was the last day to preregister (to guarantee yourself a t-shirt). Shock. Apparently, he had been running a little at work to prepare for the race--to see if he can run. Add the fact that we have been doing Crossfit together for the last 6 weeks and he felt confident enough to enter the race with me!


So we ran the race. It was fun. He was afraid of embarrassing me. ??? My time: 23:40. I was hoping for under 25 minutes, so this was good. His time: 29:42. No training, no hours on end of working out, just a few 1 mile runs and 6 weeks of weight lifting. I am so jealous. Our total time was 53:22, good for 16th place out of 31 couples in our age division. I got 98th place out of 374 entrants, men included. I think I was about 35/207 women.

Next year, we are going to try to get some of the kids involved.

Oh yeah, he is already talking about the next race we will enter. I think he may be hooked. smirk

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Yo-yoing

Yoyoing? Yoing? Yo-yos yo-yoing? Lots of that going on at my house.



I have been saying "Whoa, you almost whacked me in the head!" far too often lately. Why do my boys feel the need to play with yo-yos RIGHT NEXT TO ME??? Oh well, they are having fun. What's a little bump on the head, right?