Sumo, I hope all is well with Larry.

Karen, great race.  Anytime you pusy into "puke pace" you know you gave it your all.

My family had a good time.  Doone PR'd with 52:08.  I'm so proud of her and how far she has come with her running in such a short time.  Chase and Cade were mad because they couldn't find the turn around point in the mile run, but they got over it.  I mixed my long run running to the race 5+ miles.  I didn't give myself enough time to recover before racing, but was able to set a new 5K PR, but a dissapointing time considering the flat course.  I then took off shortly after the race to finish my long run for the day, logging a total of 15.5 miles.  It was fun to see everyone.  I wish I wasn't in such a hurry, but I had to get in my run and to work before 11:00.

congrats karen – you and dana really ran a fast race – just what you wanted.  good job.  i'm not sure i can call my day a "race report".  i also was going to try and pr this race – i was going to be happy with anything under 60 mins.  and i think i was on track for that.  i got slowed down on the backside of the island by that wind but knew that once i got out of that, i would still feel pretty good.  i kept hearing the sirens near the island and wondered what was going on.  and when i ran by the marina, i was surprised i hadn't seen larry yet come by on his bike.  and then when i got to where the ambulance was and saw larry's bright green shirt, i was hoping he was there helping someone, not that he was the one who was needing the help.  at first i was afraid he'd taken a header over the handle bars and that he'd be this huge bloody mess because i could see the bike on its side kind of near him – i never imagined it would be chest pain.  i got there as the two ambulance people were asking him questions so i got the story right away – it scared me.  and he was still having pain and wincing because of it.  i can laugh at this now – one of the fire truck guys started asking me larry's personal info and i was still huffing and puffing from running and he asked me if i was ok or was i just excited/nervous because of what larry was going through.  i'm even laughing while i write this – and i told him no, i was fine, it was just that i was running that race!!  i guess maybe i didn't quite look the part of a runner – my goodness.  i love all you firefighters!!!!  anyway, they carted larry off after they looked at his ekg.  i walked his bike to our truck.  thank you to wes for taking larry's bike apart to get in the back – thank you.  and thank you to gina, running by asking if larry was ok and richard for stopping.  and craig too while i was taking the bike to the truck.  somehow in all that i remembered to stop my garmin when i got to larry – i was at 2.60 miles at 23:22 – so i was pushing.  but nothing is more important than those we love and there will always be more races.  so i'll just have to pr the havasu half instead! 

Where is the start?

Doone is going to run the 10K this Saturday.  Two of my boys are doing the 1 mile race.  And, I am doing the 5K.  Are any of you doing this race?

Oh… and the prices went "up" $5 per month, with the cheapest ending January.  The February prices are $10 for kids' 1 mile, $30 for 5k, $40 for 10k… In fact, I think the only difference in the original online form that was posted and the one I actually turned in was the location (and it was printed on green paper ). (And it sounds like there's a race for everyone in Rhett's family )

I know the Rotary folks would love to have a lot of folks participate :-)