Fall is winding down beautifully. I ran my first race last weekend – the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. I joined up with a group of my friends from Twitter, and we formed a group called “Twitter for Titters.” Only three of us decided to run, and Bryan is a fast runner so that left me and Pete to run together at a slow & steady pace. It was a 5k, or just over three miles. The first mile was easy, the second was uphill a bit and then a nice long downhill, and the third mile was almost entirely uphill. It kicked my butt, and i ended up having to walk about half a mile. I finished at about 34 minutes. Not quite what i was aiming for, but – i ran two and a half miles! A couple of months ago i wouldn’t have DREAMED of ever running that far – or even jogging, whatever. So i’m proud of myself.
Me & Bryan, post-race
Bryan, Me & Pete
I love my flyaway hair. Speaking of which, i got a haircut. It’s pretty cute.
Nathan and i found a little wooly caterpillar later that day – a live one, surprisingly. We’ve seen lots and lots of smooshed ones lately. I’m not sure what’s going on with their population this year or why they love to crawl along sidewalks, but i’m glad i finally found a nice big live one to play with. I don’t think i’d done that since i was a little kid, back in Eugene.
We named him Steven. At first i thought i’d keep him, but then i decided that was mean so i just let him do a little mini Race for the Cure over my hands for a while before letting him go. We experimented with putting him on different trees in Nathan’s yard until we found one that we thought was good and safe.
We also carved pumpkins this weekend, but mine sucked. I tried to do the Obama logo but A. that’s really unoriginal, and B. i bought a white mini-pumpkin that turned out to actually be thicker than a normal pumpkin, so i couldn’t get it to glow like i had hoped. Nathan’s is cute though…
It was my idea to put the seeds in the eyes. At least i can take cred for that.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 3:26 pm • life
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October 29th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Yay, we’re so proud of you for running! Not just for cancer, but because you always hated running and you did it anyways. Awesome!
I LOVEEE that pumpkin. It’s so funny. Mine is cool, but it’s already melting and looking horrible. Karl’s still looks good thought. He didn’t cut into it as much though.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Great Job! I’ve never run more than a mile. I’m certain I can’t run even one now. I carved pumpkins with my mom’s school group for the conservation center’s Halloween hike. There were 160 of them. I think I must have gutted 20 pumpkins and carved 7 (all flowers and butterflies, so the little girls wouldn’t feel left out) … I’m having a hard time being motivated to carve my own now.
Are you dressing up for the festivities?
November 1st, 2008 at 4:06 am
the pumpkin looks like it is retarded. I’m just sayin. Congrats on finishing the race. I have a kick ass presentation on pre-competition nutrition in case you’re interested.
P.S. those caterpillars you remember from Eugene were probably just slugs! ;P