Just started pouring here- hope you missed the rain. Is 333 the Magic Manianc number coming up, or have you already passed that goal by?

No, today was 330 :-).  (that was the count, not my time.)

330 marathons in 11 years - you are a machine. Are you sure that you are not an android or a terminator from the future sent back in time to make the rest of us feel inadequate? That many marathons seems unreal. If you are human, I must assume that you are unmarried, wealthy, have a lot of free time on your hands, and have OCD tendencies. 

Saying "good job" or "that's amazing" seems ridiculously inadequate. 

Getting so close. We RAers need to start planning a big SRL333 celebration.

 yes!!

I'm sure I've written this somewhere in this thread, but I'll say it again.  I have mixed emotions about 333 and celebrating it.  I mean, yes, it is pretty cool.  And among the ultras and super hard marathons (leadville) and I-just-finished-chemo races, Seattle RnR was my 150th sub-4 regular ol' marathon.  That's pretty cool.  Then again, it's also celebrating a long history of midpackishness.  I dunno.

 

It's just running.

 

Sometimes I like to post in "Look What I Can Do".  Other times I feel kinda silly.  But I do it in pink, so I suppose silly is expected.

 

And because people keep asking me: 333 is "retirement", but it is Who-style soft retirement.  I'm stopping the week in/week out running of 1 or 2 long races.  I will still do one every now and again.  And perhaps do a little better than midpackishness. 

 

But mostly I want to be a minuteman.  Some of you will know what this means.

 

(and if you don't, I want to improve my half marathon time substantially.  Halves are fun.)

Backpackishness is fun! Congrats.

No, today was 330 :-).  (that was the count, not my time.)

 

I finished before the rain, but not by a whole lot.

 

The hardcore locals today ran a marathon/50k at Taylor Mountain.  My spies tell me that it had creek crossings, including one waist deep (done twice).

 

Yeah, I ran roads with aid stations and people playing music for me.

 

Had it rained a bit, I would not have complained.

My gosh, 330 (or 333).

I'm trying to wind my way around nagging injuries to simply get to #15.  Don't know if I'll be able to pull it off- it seems these days, every day is better than the next.

33x?  That's in the stratosphere.  Amazing.

 Those people are CGI, aren't they? 

332.

 

Yesterday's race was a 50k which involved this hill 3 times:

 

 

However, my race was in July. That pic was taken during the winter version of the race.  Yesterday it was very green and 80.  Mo bettah.

Yes indeed.

Yes and no.  I have no plans to run a bazillion half marathons (or even two a weekend, a la my double marathon weekends).  So not beastly. But I will run me some halves, oh yes.  And every now and then, like perhaps 3-4 times a year, I will show up for a full or ultra.  If my body cooperates, which it kind of isn't.

I would like to be a minuteman though.

Assuming Sunday goes properly, I'll probably post some goofy numbers next week.

Here's a couple goofy things:

Number of times in the past 12 months that it has been brought to my attention "so-and-so asked if you were gay" (because I wear pink): 4, that I recall.  Different so-and-so's.

Number of times in the past 12 months that it has been brought to my attention "so-and-so asked if you have AIDS" (because I had a really bad battle with pneumonia): 1.

Some people are dumbasses.  The pink=gay thing is an insult to gay and straight folks.  The AIDS thing is pure 100% redneck dumbass.