I enjoyed the wrap up. I would love to hear about the Southern Caribbean cruise, I enjoyed Jill's TR, but I always like to hear a different version of the same trip and how two different people make it different for themselves.
I would like to do one at some point, we will see. It seems a bit pathetic to start a TR when it gets close to being a year after the trip even happened though! Jill and I had pretty different trips though, I'm glad I actually got to spend real time with her at your party! It was a great trip, we would do it all again in a heartbeat. Or most of it anyway. A few things we would change or try new things but for the most part, it totally rocked.
Nice wrap up Cynthia! I enjoyed reading about all your races. I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would want to run NAKED! That floors me.
. I would think it would be uncomfortable at the very least. Whatever! That looks like such a fun race with some crazy costumes.
It was a fun race. Event more than "race" though for sure. My time was nowhere close to my 12K PR (1:10:54 versus 1:07:54), I have 15k's faster than my 12K PR, and the pace was even slower than my half PR (9:31 versus 9:29). So not a great time in my big picture at all. But I wasn't expecting it to be given the nature of the race. The funniest thing was the biggest question we got all weekend while wearing race tees or the ones we bought was...
Did you finish?
LOL. LOTS of folks just stop at a bar somewhere on the route, especially those who "bandit". My stats look amazing as a result.
Overall - 4337/29970 top 14%
Age Bracket - 71/1513 top 5%
Gender - 1110/16078 top 7%
LOL!
Congrats to Taylor. Jeff must be happy to have one college graduate. 1 down and 1 to go!
He is although...Tay needs a job and needs to know that the $$ stops now. Which I will believe when I see it. Much as I support his creative endeavors...that doesn't pay rent and living at mom's is not a sustainable future in my book.
I wish you would write a TR for your cruise because that cruise sounds amazing, but I certainly understand your unwillingness to commit. I am suffering from the same thing. I am several Trips behind now. I would like to do our anniversary trip, but I just can't stay 100% committed or focused. It's tough!
I would like to but we will see. I need to wrap up the DL one and really get everything at least on PB. I have had SUCH issues with PB uploads. Not only are there storage issues but a lot of times things don't upload right, the images corrupt and it drives me nuts. But the thought of starting elsewhere makes me crazy too. I need to figure it out.
I hope Avenger's works out for you. I mentioned to you that I am going to register for the Virginia Beach 1/2 marathon over St. Patty's weekend. It seems far off, but it should keep me running through the winter, which I found to be such a struggle last year. I found a new friend at work who is an amazing runner. She is uber committed and actually does all her running before work, including her long 11 and 12 mile runs. I keep asking myself how that is even possible? So we are planning to head down to VA beach for the weekend. It should be fun. I am no where close to her league, but that doesn't seem to bother her. She's just a genuinely nice person who loves running.
I have a "friend" I've made through a running forum that is the same. I don't know how she fits it in so early in the morning, in the dark and she has much younger kids! I think having something scheduled in the future is a good thing. It definitely helps me! I wish we had something this month but at the same time I need to get my ankle under control and well, just breathe. I hope Avengers works out as well. Of course I don't know anything yet, my peers and I banded to together and have called a meeting with our boss to get clarity. That of course assumes he has any, which we aren't sure he really does. Sigh. So...maybe I will know more next week. The good news is that the deferral date doesn't even open up until 9/29 so I've some time. Sadly I will not be able to have a better POT but if I have to defer it doesn't matter anyway. And it may not make a difference but I suspect it will bump me back a corral. I submitted the best I had...which sadly is from over a year ago. That kind of bums me out but it is what it is.
I could change hotels and that would save a lot of $$ but if I am doing it solo I really want to stay on property. Even though it's only a weekend, it adds up fast and the timing is bad with the kids trip $$ wise. So...it's definitely tied to the outcome of the whole bonus program conversation. It is not encouraging that our boss has made no attempt to clarify things with us though.
Caitlin and Dawn told me about a 1/2 marathon in Celebration Florida in January. Clearly I could not do it this year, but I have my eye on it 2017. Celebration is such an amazing town that I imagine the entire course to be quite nice.
Once again - I admire your running endeavors. You've made impressive progress in just two short years. Congrats to you for all your past and future successes.
I've heard really good things about that one. I'd like to do the Key West one which is also in Jan.
hopefully the rest of Mothers Day was good though
