Volunteering and being sick

Today was the first time I've ran since March 14th. Shocker!! What's happening to me? Well, I've been a little bit sick and really busy. I can say though, that I rode my bike to work 3/5 days last week, so that should count for something.

Wanna hear something crazy?

I knew you did.

I volunteered at a 50K race yesterday.
That's 31 miles!!
I can hardly believe I'm training for a 13.1 mile race, and these guys ran 31!!

AMAZING!! Perhaps someday in the far and distant future I will be one of them, perhaps.

Runnin' O' the Green

What a fun race! The City of Bellingham puts on a St. Patrick's Day race every year, the Saturday before St. Patty's Day. This year it fell on March 14th. One may choose to either run 2 miles or 5 miles. I was ecstatic that Jeff and Izabelle run the 2 miles while I ran the 5 miles!
Being Bellingham, and being that it was an Irish themed race, it rained.
No it poured.
No it rained cat's and dog's.
We were all soaked by the time the race was over, but in good spirits.
Unfortunatly they didn't serve beer at the aid stations, but they did have cool shirts and lots of fun prizes to give away.
Oh, and don't forget Maggie's Furry, an awesome local Irish band.
I finished in 46:52!! A 9:18 min/mile. MUCH better than I had hoped.
To see a photo click here.

Fun Run, Snow Run, Trail Run

Carl Cozier had a fun run! You could either run 2 miles or walk 1 or 2 miles. Naturally we all ran the 2 miles. It was a fun run, the name being correct. The course was 95% on trails, trails we take every day when walking or biking home from school.
The only thing is....
RIGHT when the race started....
it started to SNOW!!!

Go figure!

I bought some tickets to win a Kayak, donated by the local warehouse of Johnson Outdoors.
Wish me luck!

10K

Today I ran the Skagit Symphony Smelt Run, 10k. It was a pretty flat course, which is nice, however it did wind around on the roads (including the main hwy out of town) and there was a bit of traffic, which isn't too fun.
The highlight was seeing the swans in the soon to be tulip fields and finishing in 1 hr 6 minutes.
The lowlight was running on concrete, thus I now have sore calves, shins.