Questions and a Certificate

Two questions from Thing 2 during the last 24 hours:

Do cats really meow?

Do pigs have tails?

The mind of a 6 year old boy never ceases to amaze....

I also got this in the mail today. It's my finisher's certificate from the marathon. Hooray for me!

From the 5k

Here's a picture of The Captain finishing strong...


And a picture of me just finishing....

The 5k Results

Here's how we fared:

315 total runners

I finished 281 overall
48:25
15:35 per mile
13 out of 16 in my age group

The Captain finished 113 overall
29:06
9:21 per mile
11 out of 21 in his age group

Hey - I set a PR (personal record) for this 5k. Ha Ha Ha. (Since it was my first official 5k, anything would be a PR.) As you can see, The Captain is very fast.

Did I tell you he came back up the last part of the course to run with me to the finish line? And he brought me some water. We walked a bit. Then he said "OK - ready? Let's go Turtle." And encouraged me to keep running to the finish line. There were some guys cheering everybody toward the end and they said "Good job Ma'am. Looking good sir." And I said "Oh he finished 30 minutes ago. He just came back to get me." And they whooped and hollered "Oh what a man! Good job Sir. That's a MAN!" They were funny.

There were two women walking ahead of us, and I barely trotted by them flew by them at lightening speed to the finish. That was probably a bit rude according to runner's etiquitte, but hey, I was trying to set a PR. Ha. Plus, four women had already passed me. So I had to make up some places.

Saturday after we finished, in the middle of my heat stroke, I told Jodi that I had finally come to the realization that I wasn't a runner and I really just couldn't pull it off. I decided I wasn't going to run any more races. Ever. But now, two days later, I am reconsidering. After all, I have to set a new PR!

My 3 H Day

I can sum this morning's 5k up in three words: Hot. Humid. Hilly. It was just brutal out there. The race started at 8am and by the time we finished up and made it home, it was already 87 degrees with 70% humidity. HOT HOT HOT. Plus, there were quite a few hills on our little course. You know how I feel about hills. No thank you.

I guess the official results will be posted in the next day or so. I believe I did it in about 48:00 which is a nice little 15:30 mile. Average for this turtle. The Speedy Captain did it in about 28:00. He's uber fast.

When we got home, the kids had made a little surprise sign for us.

Note that Cooper signed his alter ego - Batman. He also put 3 "o's" in his name. Time to go back to school.

Maybe it was the heat or maybe just my lack of any sort of real running in over a month, but the race totally wiped me out. I've been sleeping off and on all afternoon and really have no energy to do much of anything.

An update on my toenail....it is definitely coming off. I can see where it is growing away from the base of the nail. Totally yuk. Coach George is thrilled.

Good news from the Great Tomato Project. I have blooms on my tomato plants!! One of them has opened and I can see the yellow flower. And there are a few other little blooms on there too. If you look really careful in this picture, you can see one unopened bloom right in the middle. Look at about 1 o'clock from that bloom and you can see the tip of the yellow bloom. Hooray!

The Bloggie Doggie hasn't felt very well today and last night. His tummy has been upset. That's always nice - cleaning up dog puke. But he still always asks to play with his Frisbee.

We're just laying low this afternoon. Nice for a change.

Stay cool people.

Love that guy

Email to and from George (my marathon coach):

TO: George
FROM: Angie
RE: Help, I'm confused

A: Picked up my race stuff. The bottom of the bib is perforated and has a place for name, age, etc. What do we do with that?

G: Fill it out. Since there is no chip, when you cross the finish line in 25 minutes, tear it off and put it in the applicable (F 35-39) bin.

A: I've become younger and faster! Love that!

G: Due to good coaching, no doubt....

Stupid, Lucky, 174, 460, Pretty

What a total idiot Matt Jones is. Did you hear about this? Unbelievable.

I picked the kids up from Mom's and we ran to the library to check some books out for them and renew two of my books. (I'm so glad my kids like to read.) I lucked into the new James Patterson book Sail. So I will hold off on the Lisa Gardner and start this one first. His books are always a quick read, so I should be finished with it this weekend.

Then we went by Hope Church to get our race packets for Saturday's 5k.

Then I got home, opened my mail, and saw this.

I promptly did this.

I was upset and mad for awhile. Then I went outside to listen to the rain. And I saw this

Which made it all better. At least for a little while.

Saturday's 5k

Here is the course for the 5k on Saturday. A little hard to see I know, but basically starts at the church, goes up Walnut Trace Drive, through the park, by the community center, down Trinity, down Ericson and back to the church. Just a nice little 3.1 mile route.

Picking up our packets tonight.