2008 B2B RR :D

So Sunday was bay to breakers, this is a crazy little race (65,000 +) people and no one know how many bandits “run” it as well. We were in costume this year, I feel that we did a great job with them, we were ladies going to a masquerade ball and DS was the court jester. We had a lot of people want to take our pictures; we were also photographed by people who do the B2B marketing I think, not sure who they were but they popped up every on and then and I signed a photo release.

It took up 35 min to get to the start line by this time the elites were done. There seemed to be a lot more people this year then in years past. We finished in 2:09:20 a whole 9 min better the last year. Not a PR but this is not the race for that to happen.

We went to the expo to get our packets; we got the boys just fine, but they were unable to find mine. I was kind pissed off just a little but, ok a lot but I got over it. I liked the # I was given, but no I had some stupid generic #, but when we did the time check it had my name on it so it all worked out.

Naked….hmmmmm, as always there was naked at the race, the only one that stands out was a guy that was on the sidelines with his package wrapped in plastic wrap, so I guess he was not “naked” but wow was that not a good look, it was moist and smashed looking. Not good!!! As we were standing the long line for the bus, there were people talking about the naked runners, and how perverted they thought they were. Can you say closed minded? I am guessing they were not from SF.

I got to meet some of the people from the BF (beginner’s forum on Runner’s World) that were having a FE. It was kind fun to faces to names. I do think that they thought we were kinda weird, but that is part of the charm of B2B all the weirdness that happens.

Tapper Madness, sheesh who knew.

So, people who train for distance races always talk about tapering the week before the race. There is some debate as to how much one should tapper, if some one should tapper at all, and if there is tapper madness. I would like to say that I am not training for any great distance, it is just a 12k, but I do know myself and race tendencies, I need a few non running days before my race. This may not be true for everyone, and it my work to my disadvantage, due to pent up energy (maybe that is my race day problem right there,will have to look in to that). I guess my person is in the routine of running on Friday mornings, but no run today and I am in a grumpy mood. I can't wait for the tapper that comes with the 1/2 training, sheesh I am going to be a mess, but I guess I know it is coming so maybe it will be OK. I hope!

Just a thought

I have been lucky in my life, I have always been fat. As a child, as a teenager, and all of my adult life. With that I have never been bogged down by the illnesses that come from being fat. There is talk that you can be fat and fit, and others say that is not true. If you are fat then you are unhealthily. So, I have to ask am I just lucky, or healthy? I can tell you that I am healthier then I have been in years. So, there were some effects of being fat I guess. Thankfully not as severe as some people. So even tho it is hard to be a fat person, people are mean and the world is cruel. It could be worse. I guess that is what I have to remember on day that I think my world sucks.

Fast, today was she.

So this morning at 5:00am it was to be 3 miles, the same boring 3 that we run every tuesday and may run every tuesday for the rest of running time here on earth. Met up with Mer and we are off. But today is different then other days, Kish is feeling strong and having a great go of it. Mer's goal for today was to run for 30min non stop. She was going to try it at my speed with is about 2 min/mile slower then she is. But today I was putting down 15 m. m. I was moving for me. I would like to run 15 m m. I think the long run on Sunday is starting to show that more mile i do the faster the short runs are. I ran the last 3/4 of a mile barefoot, this time not even the socks just my feet on the ground. It was a great feeling. The ground was cold, rough and solid. I did step on one rock that was uncomfortable but it didn't stop me. I love to run barefoot.