like mother like daughter

so today was the cougar mtn 7.5 mile trail run. i was not up for it at all. i was totally puffy from the totaly spicey enchiladas that eric made the night before and totally disappointed in the terrible apple pie i had made. but we went. lets say the enchiladas let me know they were there before the race but they were no longer a bother once the race started. i know i can go 7.5 miles but oh how i forgot that trail is so different then road. based on last years 5 miler time (i didn't even consider the 13er) i figured i would be lucky if i finished in 1:30, but thought i better mentaly prep myself for 1:45. the race started out good. the main thing that wsa different this year then last was that i aways had someone in sight in front of me and someone directly behind. last year i was by myself most of the time, in both races. at about 30 minutes i thot i might pass out it was so hard. so i decided to take a gu. i took it out of the little internal pocket of my running shorts and tore off the top. put the top back into the little pocket. tok the gu but shoved the empty part into the water bottle hand thingy. about 5 or so minutes later i realized that the little top that i tore from the top of the gu hadn;t made it back into the little pocket and was instead taking a tour of the inside of my shorts. now, you may recall what i did last year, but this year i decided to just deal.
and it was just funny. at 45 minutes i was feeling pretty good again. that may have been at the point where we had just deceneded for 5 minutes straight because not too long after that i thot i was going to die. so i walked up some of the hills and let a group of about 10 go past then i ran again. a little later and another uphill section later i let another 10 go by. i had thot my postion was good but i could see it getting worse and worse. at an hour i decided to take the other gu since i had geared up for it being another 45 minutes. as i was finishing it off i came accross a crossing and asked what the mile marker was. the lady said i had another mile and 1/2. wow! i was totaly suprised! so i started to kick it in a little, got to the water station that said only 1/2 mile left and then got to the gate that said .3 mile left then saw eric, tossed him my water bottle, sprinted past a little girl and crossed the finish line in 1:14. lets just say i was pleasantly suprised. although eric tried to burst my bubble and say it was really only 6.5, i will believe for myself that it was the whole 7.5. results are posted only up to the top 151, but a 10 yearold girl finished in 1:09. that is amazing to me. eric came in 8th overall, possibly 2nd in his age group, or maybe 4th. he did get beat by a girl though. but at least she wasnt 10.
we had originaly planned to go to the lake to swim after but it was colde and rainy and we were really tired so we came home anyway. i passed out.
tomorrow is a 5k. for this one i am actually going to warm up a little and then see what happens. it will have a big hill in it that might kill me but we will see!

here is a photo of seamus looking bad:

and sirus looking like the saddest baby ever: