No Excuses

I only got up twice last night. And over-sleeping past the all-call at 7am wasn't going to keep me from racing out the station door with oatmeal and eggs in a bowl. I stopped at Stumptown and thankfully realized it was Sunday-no line! I got home, fed the dogs, found my hat, put Emma's leash outside for her adventure with Brett, and Zoe and I were off. This was going to be a personal distance record for Zoe. I was looking forward to running with Tom and attempting an even consistent pace for 25 miles.

The weather was nothing short of epic as we made our way from Germantown, where I met the masses, to the zoo. It rained, sleeted, snowed, hailed, shined, and we even caught lightening and thunder! Tom amazed me with his skills of observation. Tom was facing the tree we were resting under to get a rock out of his shoe. I was staring out into the rain coming down sideways as he said, "Now Kris it's going to start raining." Tom is full of wise words like these. You have to pay attention because you might miss them. Tom was strong and ran about 3/4 of the day at 160-165 HR. I was happy to sustain a slightly lower and more forgiving rate. Ronda and Michael, who finished the 30.16 miles in a smoking 5:06 had placed water and goodies out at the trail heads and fire lanes so we had great aid stations to boot! It was an awesome end (well save the 7 miles I have on the treadmill tomorrow) to my first Christmas Camp.

Oh yeah. Tom convinced, threatened, made me promise...it's all the same right? to run 100 miles with him and the rest of the gang to honor his 50Th birthday. This is in 2009. If all goes well in the Tetons- my first 50, I shall look forward to sharing this 100 mile day, wherever it will be, with the group. :] 7:24pm...totally bedtime.