It was a blast – lots of eating, drinking, screaming and cowbell clanging along with huge amounts of friend sweetness.  I did however, make two idiot moves:

1. The morning before my houseguests arrived, I prepared my usual hot cereal w/ peanut butter but forgot to add water before I nuked it.  Thus, the stagnant stench of burnt death was the aroma de weekend.  Neither open windows, air freshener or nuking lemons (a tip I read) would make that disappear.

2. I stupidly neglected to take photos of the apres-race gathering at my apartment.  I’ll blame it on the early morning Irish coffees and the mimosas after that.  Thus, there were a handful of other cool folks not pictured but present over the weekend.

These are my main forum crew of those visiting. Really hard to believe we all met online, we know each other so well now.

A gaggle of racing boys at Friday's dinner: Ron, Chris and Nick

The Cheering Squad: Stevi, Moi, Amy and Chris

Running!
My return to the road has been joyous, though on the 2nd day when I did my first continuous run, it was clear I’d lost fitness.  I did, however, enjoy a moment of smug satisfaction on that 3-miler when I passed another runner, leaving him in the dust.  Nevermind that he was 80 years old and wheezing heavily, I was on fire.  Or at least I was definitely faster than walking.

Saturday was my slowest of the three days with 9:30s.  I was a little creaky from DOMS but it was beautiful out and knowing I’d be off the next day, I went wild and ran 4 whole miles.

I’ll be going 4mi today, too.  Hopefully, I’ll find that old man so I can ruthlessly pass him again and show him what a real jogger is.  Barring that, I’ll harass a walker or two.  If I can catch ‘em.

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