A Run Through Redlands 5K Photo

So I got an email from the photography company that took pictures during the race.  Thousands of photos are up on the site but not one of them has a shot of me.  Maybe I looked so bad running, the photographers were too stunned to snap a picture... Oh well.  I like to think that this blurry photo is me, looking totally awesome as I cross the finish line but I know its not (I wore a turquoise shirt).  Hopefully next time I will get a picture of me running.

Frak

So I am feeling really down today.  I don't know why.  Maybe the weather.  Maybe lack of sleep.  I feel like I want to do more things in life but I don't have enough energy or time.  I know I watch too much television in the evening (8-10 PM, essentially).  I need some kind of project!  But what?  I don't have very many interests and the few that I have, I'm not very good at.  Maybe I will try and take some pictures this evening with the family.  We live in such a gorgeous area, I am sure I could find something to photograph.  Part of me thinks I will do something different this evening.  Another part knows that I will just end up sitting on the couch... Frak!

A Run Through Redlands 5K Results

So I got my official results.  Turns out, I did fine, much better than my first race - nearly 5 minutes!  I am shooting for under 30 minutes in the next race!

A Run Through Redlands 5K

So I did another race this morning, A Run Through Redlands.  Since our trip to the cabin didn't work out, I woke up at 5:22 AM, ate some breakfast, got dressed and headed out for Redlands.  Traffic is great at 6:00 AM on a Sunday morning!  Of course, I got there with plenty of time to spare as the 5K race was at 7:55 AM.  So I watched the start of the 10K and Half-marathon races and got ready for mine.  There were either more people running or a smaller start area as it took forever for the crowd to get moving.  According to the official time, almost two minutes went by from the starting horn to when I actually passed the start line!  Of course, not even 100 meters in, I stepped awkwardly in a pothole and rolled my ankle.  I kept running and didn't have any pain until the third mile when I noticed I wasn't running very fast.  My Nike+ running thing didn't do a good job of updating my miles so I was unsure of how much more I had to run.  It got too warm in my long sleeve shirt and t-shirt so I need to remember that for the next race in May.

Green Level

So I made it to the Green Level in my Nike+ running yesterday!  That means I have run 250 kilometers.  I would have never thought I could do that in a thousand years.  I have one more training run tomorrow before the Run Through Redlands on Sunday.  I only need 750 more kilometers to make it to the next level.  No problem! ;-p

Running

So I have really started to run this year.  I just came across http://www.dailymile.com and I saw how it links to my Nike+ account.  Kind of cool.  You can follow along with my running here on the blog.  Hopefully I can keep at it and maybe, someday run a marathon.  Right now it is just 5K races.  I need to get ready for my next race in a week and half in Redlands.

New blog format

So I really like these new blogger layouts.  I just wish we could put our own photo for the background!