Can you feel the thrill?

I can. I did it!!!!!!!! I ran the 10K. The whole bloody thing. Good god it was great and brutal. At 6K I was ready to die and lie down in the grass. By 7K I thought maybe I could actually do this thing. Some highlights all occured between 7-8K which really made it worthwhile. The elderly lady on the corner in the bright red coat, who blew kisses at the runners and said "You go darlings, you can do it!". The handicapped guy beside me being pushed in his wheelchair by a friend, and when we started going down a tiny incline the guy in the chair said "Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" and sported a huge grin. And the otter who came out of a hedge, ran along beside us for maybe 5 feet and then ducked over the seawall into the ocean. Add in the blazing sun, the Tai Ko drummers at 9K, and my good buddy at my side, and it couldn't have been a better day. The details: my time was 77:07 minutes, and I placed 5700 out of 10,000+. How can you not like being average?


As I secretly feared, this has turned Erin and I into 'runners'. Shoot. Now we have plans to continue our 7K/3 days a week schedule, and aim for doing 10K's every weekend by June. Good lord!!!! Now there's talk of doing the half marathon (that's 21K btw) next summer. Dammit!!!! We should've just stayed on the couch.


Okay, while Hannah at 3 and a half is an impatient emotional wreck (but not in an annoying way like other people's whiny kids), man is she funny. We were sitting at the table eating dinner, and I look across to Kit and comment that Hannah is really articulate. She leans in to my right and whispers "don't forget to tell him I can undo my own seatbelt too!". Maybe you have to be here to get it, but it was too fabulous.


What can I say? Weather is great, my body is not as dead as I feared it would be, May is upon us tomorrow, and our backyard is taking shape. What more could a girl want? Okay, well, let's not get into that here.

It's a brief update, free of pics, but hey! I get it in whenever I can. Don't hassle me about it. :)

C
now know as a 'runner' don't forget. as in
"do you know Caelen?"
"oh, you mean Caelen The Runner?"
"yeah her"
"oh yeah, I know her. She's cool".
"no doubt."
:)