Sorry for my absence, as I mentioned last week I was heading up to Portland for a half marathon and then over to Bend to check out Kristen's new place outside of Sun River. Quick trips to cities seem to becoming a habit I am forming, but its all that time will allow. Besides I think its for the best, as I might never leave these places if I truly had enough time to explore them fully.
Portland was wet and rainy, and the 1/2 marathon was quite a test of the pain tolerance, cold tolerance, and over all commitment to running well and completing what we signed up to do. I would not have finished had it not been for Kristen, I hit a wall early, but at mile 10 I honestly could have just stopped all together, dragging me behind her we even ran sub-9 minute miles for mile 12 and 13... and finished in 2:05, a very hard 2:05...
Then we proceeded to complain the rest of the day about it. Small words of accomplishment and making sure everyone with us knew that we could actually appreciate that we still did very well, but the pain and cold and 4 mile incline in the middle of the race, we will only be able to understand, no bitching and complaining will allow anyone to understand how badly it went, and how shocked we are that time wise it went so well... probably the longest 2 hours and 5 minutes we have ran yet... with that, it was great to run one with Kristen, it was great that we did it and did it together, and overall it was a good closure to our season... we didn't finish wanting anymore, and we finished fairly strong, leaving goals still to be conquered for next year (think sub 2 hours). Read a much better race review over here at Kristens blog.
We then took off from the race pretty much as soon as possible (unfortunately neither one of us where feeling up to any of the 2 free beers each we got for entering or the Papa Murphy's pizza or buffalo's chicken wings also part of our entrance fee) and headed out to Bend, OR to see Tyler and Kristen's place... and then it snowed :) See!!!
This is what it looked like yesterday morning. First snow of the season, was nice to be a part of witnessing it. We only where there for about 16 hours, but it was great to hang out, see the place, and enjoy more time with Kristen (and Tyler). Headed back to Arcata yesterday, and am now back to the desk at work... and wondering again, how I will be plotting to get out of here next... : ) Until that plot is formulated, I must get back to work... more posts soon, I am determined to get back on a regular routine, that and catch up on the said 182* blog posts I need to catch up on) *after going through once and marking read to ones off topic or uninteresting...
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