Have you registered?

It's March 8th which means 16 days till race day!!

You've done the work, and it's nearly time to start relaxing into your taper. Cutting back on your miles and trusting in the miles you've already put in.

Some things to think about...
(possible incentives for registering)
-shwag (it's a surprise this year)
-friendly water stations
-beautiful views
-soups and bread from HALEY'S BAIT SHOP & GRILL **waiting at the finish line**
-delicious (YOU DESERE THESE!) cookies from THE BEAN CAFE

Also, something to consider
THE EARTHBOX INN will be offering $20 15 min. post race massages, to help heal your hardworking legs and body.

Go on... REGISTER HERE

60 days away.

It's getting closer... like moments really.

Yet still. ... YOU'VE GOT TIME!!! You've got time to reach a goal of running/walking our 10K or our half marathon!!

SIXTY DAYS to be exact!! Plenty of time to get your miles up!  You've got this!!!

Lace up those shoes and get outside!!

REGISTER TODAY AT ACTIVE.COM!!

Here we are... (again)

It's not September, but somehow it's fall... kids are at day two, which brings us to day... one (well one-ish).

8:30AM and I stand with 5 fantastic women... Feels like we're missing a few (not counting our fallen injured duo). One call to a sleepy Shan and she's out the door, standing/running with us in 3 min. flat (crazy impressive).

Luckily for all our legs everyone had taken a slight summer vacation. There was no leaving anyone in the dust, just a sweet cluster of chatty friends.

Our usual talkative selves were huffing a tad more, than say our March selves. With that said.... We did it. We all showed up with laced up shoes and attitudes that could lift the lowest of spirits.

The next week or so we'll be keeping our pace and miles on the low side. Plenty of time to build up to our pending 10k, half marathon, 25k, marathon, and or 50k goals.

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If you've ever thought about running with a group (**this group**)... Great time to join in!!! We meet every Tuesday and Thursday at 8:30 AM in the parking lot of San Juan Island Fitness!!
Hope to see you there!

Trial run.

Slowly, we are trading in beach towels and bathing suits....

Alarms are silenced and lazy legs are in motion. Waking anxious darlings and filling them with oatmeal and eggs for their first day back to school. I lace up my new (they're going) back to school tennies and continue with the curling of locks and finding of socks (unintentional rhyming).

With a kiss and a wave and a reminder to "make good choices"... We start our days.

Broken toe-ed BooBoo and I meet, to see how important that tiny toe of hers really is, and if I can run at all after such a long break.

Three blocks up, BooBoo decides that it's too painful... one block up she decides to keep at it, so she could finish her story (besides at my pace it's all manageable). Three miles of ignoring sore toes and out of condition legs, we finish with a "that wasn't so bad" shrug.

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we met today with our running friends for a back-to-school-little-people-back-to-hanging-out-bigger-people

feeling a bit whale(ish)

Ten more days till the Winthrop marathon (still deciding on running the half or the whole) nine miles are meant for today, but first I've got an eager 7 year old to go get her Pinniped knowledge on.

  

Running in the afternoon can almost always be a little low on the motivated side.  Turns out spending the morning with a group of first graders and eating a cookie the size of ones head, makes it even harder to muster.  

Holding my bag of appropriately spandexy/weather resistant uniform.  I kicked my heals trying to think of reasons/excuses not to run (besides the obvious *I don't wanna*).  Didn't work.  Luckily theres always a Shannon.  And better yet, she's just as tired.

Kathleen (bird counter friend), looking fresh (again, attempting to come up with some emergency that has come up and I've got to leave now) meets up with us.  With a sideways look from Shannon as if to say "not an option".  We head off on our way.

Blue bird only has an hour so pear point we head.  Somewhere around mile five my legs wake up and there's a compromise of walking up the pending steep hill, in replacement of ending at six miles with Kathleen.

We wave our "see you soon" and continue to the hill, and added miles.  Legs falling back to tired, we distract each other with funny.  Laughing at each others dorkiness the time passes quicker.  

Starting to walk, Miss Sideways decides we should run the trail cutting out the so called *steep hill*.  Sounds like an alright trade.  You'd think.  

In the end, both happy we put our runners on.  Had a chance to chat (minus children) , laugh at each other and meet our goals.  So I suppose that counts as a good run!

2012 10k and Half Marathon results!!

Now hopefully everybody's eye site is extra special (sorry for the super small)

WEATHER or not.

We don't get much snow round here.

So when we woke up to a whole 2 inches, we dressed in our warmest.

Met in our usual spot, just a tad later and headed out.

 

Ducking into the woods, proved to be added entertainment.

Six miles of goofing off.

Easily the funnest run We've done all year (yes, I know it's January)!!