for once!

a race time has been adjusted to be better rather then worse!

check this:
finish time is now 25:18, we'll see if they continue to change, since results aren't final until Friday.
616 overall out of 8302 timed finishers
16 out of 754 age group
97 out of 4391 womens.

not too shabby!

st pats dash

so this race went quite well i must say! we ran it in 2006 when sirus was itty bitty and he and seamus were in the stroller. we were untimed but i think we did it in 33 minutes. i can't remember in 1998 but i am looking for the results.
this year i did a little warm up. they were almost 20 minutes late in getting the race going. they kept telling people to get off the front line if they couldn't hold a sub 6 minute pace and they kept saying that they would come down there and ask people individually if they didn't seed themselves properly. i found this interesting. then the one time, they said that the front line was for all the "good" people, which i thought was an interesting way to put it. then the race was off. it was chilly but i had taken some layers off which i am glad that i did. the first mile was more uphill then i expected or remembered. it wasn't hilly by any means, just not necessarily flat. i got to the 2 mile mark in 13:51 which for me is pretty darn fast, thats a 6:55 pace. I didn't feel like i was going that fast, but i guess i was. either that or their sign was off. they didn't have a 3 mile mark, but i remember where it was on the map aproximately. i had slowed down quite a bit. my lungs weren't hurting, they just weren't feeling like they were able to expand, as though my sports bra was 10 times too tight. i had a little panic and thought about walking but knew that at this point stopping to walk would be more uncomfortable then just slowing down a little bit. once off the viaduct, it was down and around the block. i didn't have it in me to sprint. then i saw eric and the kids and i kept running at least. i tried to pick it up, but couldn't i could see the clock, and the time on my watch when i finished was 25:20. i couldn't remember if that was about the time i was expecting to come in or hoping to come in. but i was happy. it meant that i did the last 1.5miles in 11:29, or a 7:39 pace. but, although all the borchures say nearly 3.5, the map says 3.58, so that would put that last 1.5 at 7:16. I didn't feel like i had dropped that much slower, but who knows. what i do know is that in a matter of just a minute or two once done i felt recovered and was able to walk 4 blocks carrying a 40+ pound seamus. all in all the pace of this race was faster then the seafair torchlight run so i was pretty hawppy about that. results have me at 25:38 but I am pretty sure that is gun time still and i am going to stick with my watch time. my watch couldn't be off by that far. results do have me 18th in my agegroup out of 753, and 110 out of 4382 womens. not too bad!

he bought her a see through dress

dude, its march 14 and i am STILL sick. sort of. i have a sore throat still. it never went away despite the antibiotics. this was interesting to me because i talked to a guy at work who apparently has an ear infection, too and still has it despite being on his second round of antibiotics. maybe its more concerning then interesting? the doctor said he will send me to the ear nose throat doctor if its still there in two weeks.
but i am able to run and able to swim. i got some ear plugs for swimming and i LOVE them. on wednesday i saw further then i have ever gone before, both distance and time, which i was pretty excited about. i was by no means any faster, just further. it was still pretty exciting.
i run on the treadmill at work a lot. i like to either go at lunch or lately at the end of the day. the treadmill faces the window so i can look outside at the construction site accross the way and i watch as the IT guys go outside to smoke. they go out there and walk around. eric says they are probably going out there to check me out while i run. i think that is not the case. while i am long and lean, i do not look like elle mcpherson. there is nothing bouncing in slow motion while i run, so i am pretty sure no one is checking me out. plus i sweat a lot and there is no fan.
i run fast on the treadmill. despite the mph or pace on it, i am going fast nd i work hard. i always feel quite accomplished when i am done.
sunday i will run the saint patrick's day dash. hooray! i ran in 1998 and then in 2006. this year will be the year! it is a different coarse this time, but not too different. could be exciting!!

i thought i was done

.... doing stupid things at work. apparently, not.
check out the sweet email that I accidentally sent out to my boss and others last night. good lord. there should have been an O at the end of that one.
CLASSIC

i gotta blog fast

the battery on our omputer is terrible. it last 27 minutes, but really only like 12. if even that. so i's gots to be quick.
xtie introduced me to some wonderful play mobile toys.
here are some of my favorites:
Coal

Safe Crackers

Operating Room

Security Check Point

cookie

its gthe first day of march and i am STILL sick. the first morning i woke up in florida i had a sore throat. and i still have it. thursday i flew from florida to chicago and was pretty sure i was bleeding out my ears on the plane for 3 and a 1/2 hours. i was on the verge of a total breakdown and wasn't going to get on my next flight, but i went and got some sudafed and got back on for the next 4 hour leg... i was miserable. alas, i made it back to seattle, with no bleeding ears but i could hear pretty much nothing.
i gave a presentation on tuesday which was fun since i couldn't hear anything and the cold turned into a total snot mess all over the place. wednesday i went to the doctor and its good that i did. i have an ear infection - shocking!! so the doctor put me on some antibiotics.
friday, i was still sick as a dog but had to give another presentation, all about ASSO, which went pretty well. today, still sick. when will the antibiotics kick in?
we are watching beowulf.
and we will go for a family bike ride tomorrow. i went and got fitted for my new bike on tuesday in all my sickness... it will be fun i hope!!