sorry Tet - no barefoot running for me today   but I did PR!!!!! 

woooohooo - signed up for this race only because my sister was doing it as her very first 1/2 marathon!!  we didnt plan on running it together as she had her training friends to run with so I set my goal for a PR and am so ecstatic to say I met it!!  1:59:24!!!!!   helped that it was a nice seacoast FLAT 1/2 marathon but a PR is a PR and I am very pleased!!

my mom and my sister's husband were on the course 2 different times and at the finish to see us all in --- sooooo fun!!  My sister ran a 2:17 and was so happy --- she is awesome and I couldnt be happier for her!!

we went for lobster aka. LOBSTAH rolls at the Beach Plum - then I went to a 1 yr old b-day party - and finished the day with my DH having a nice stout and chocolate lava cake!!   It doesnt get much better than this for me ---- so THANKFUL for all the good things in my life right now!!

Posai - a friend of mine who used to work at the Brigham with us ran that same race today!!  she lives in so. cali now

enke - nice toes!!

Jay - congrats on 3rd place!!  speedy racewalking!!
Tselbs -- happy birthday to your mom!

nice work for all those doing 7.2 today!!

Holly - great 12!!

Happy Sunday evening my friends!!

I just love Denise's happy posts! Hugh congratulations on your PR, that's wonderful! And yes, I don't care how flat, how much tailwind, whatever... indeed a PR is a PR and you've got every reason to celebrate. How fun to do it with your sister, too, with family support! (Lobstah rolls! heh)

Holly, I did win my AG, and was 20th woman overall so that's much better than last year. Last year we were getting off the bus when the starting gun went off! I was still first in AG, but so far down in overall standings it hurt my end of year overall points. Trying not to let that happen this year! Nice 12 miler for you today, and I hear ya on the tired legs thing.

^5 to Dove for finishing her double and not getting lost!  Looking forward to the details later.

Enke, I wish my feet looked that good... and yeah, cool how your polish matches the tulip. 

Happy birthday to momma Selbs. And I was thinking about you, Tom, on my run today. I've had those runs where I feel totally gassed, yet can't seem to slow down. Not sure what causes that, but it's annoying. Interesting that you think a doc checkup is in order, you must really feel bad out there, or at least "not right." But yes, I know what you mean, and I hope it's nothing.

No barefoot running for me. I did run 14.4 miles today though. The plan was to take it e-a-s-y, and as mentioned above, sometimes I have a hard time doing that. But my legs were tired from yesterday's race (hey, a 5k can be taxing when you don't do much speedwork), and there was a good breeze from the NE, which meant tailwind on the way out (mostly downhill), and headwind on the way back. And bleh, ah hates a headwind. Managed to keep the pacing consistent throughout though which was amazing, besides being faster than planned. Glad that's done.

Oh, our town does an annual "rite of spring" community cleanup and yesterday was the day. Lots of people out with the big yellow bags, picking up all the trash that accumulates every winter. It's really embarrassing when the snow melts and all that crap is exposed. Such a messy town. So last night it was nice to drive home and the roadsides all looked so good. Today? I was so pissed to see new litter on the roadsides, and some old stuff that got missed yesterday. I have some of those bags from last year and I think I'll put them in my car and go visit a couple of those spots. Only takes a few minutes once a week to make a difference.

Congrats, Deez!!!! 

Just some darn good racing all over the place this weekend.

Carolyn - snow??  Wha . . .???  Not to rub it in, but it was beautifully sunny today.  We cherish when we get them 'cause we also get a lot of fog.

It was a long weekend for me, but I had my first 50-mile week in over two years.  After yesterday's 21, got in 9 this morning, followed by a couple of hours of gardening.  I'm all kinds of pooped, especially my legs, so I gave them a bit of a massage with my dough roller.  I certainly don't use it for baking!

Holly, the race was crazily fun. Imagine running with 50,000+ Yeap...fifty thousand plus runners. This makes Bloomsday the biggest short distance road race in the country. There were people from each state participating in this event today! It is fricken fun!...

 

The Bolder Boulder has 50,000 people running a 10k.  I wouldn't run it if you paid me!  But a lot of people think it's really fun.  Glad you and your family had fun at Bloomsday!  You must be a proud mama/ wife with your whole family participating today.

Deez, congrats on your PR, and congrats to your sister on her first half!  Nice that you could do it together and have family support along the way.

Erika, congrats on 1st AG!

Leslie, it was beautifully sunny today here, too - this morning.  Didn't start snowing till afternoon.    If I didn't like snow, I wouldn't live at this altitude.

 Happy for what????????

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFLjuj-l_fE

Your post was such a happy post, it made me