Monday, April 22nd, 2013

Good morning!!  What a weekend!  Busy, busy!  It involved all of what is posted in the above pictures.  I have much to tell you, but I have to give lab meeting today so I'm a little busy.  I'll tell you about the race and then leave the rest for another day. 

So this weekend we had a race that counted towards our 9+1 for the NYC marathon in 2014.  It was the NYRR City Parks Foundation Run for the Parks.  About 6,200 runners participated - roughly 3100 of men and women each.  It was an emotional day to start.  Beautiful morning, but quite emotional.  The National Anthem Singer was a Bostonian and had played in the band for the Boston Marathon since she was in High School.  She broke down during the end of the anthem - it was intense. 

It was about 40 degrees and sunny - still quite cold but the sun really made it nice and warm.  The race took us on a loop of the Park that I usually do a couple times a week - so I was very accustomed to the route (I just don't usually run it so fast :)).  I ended up running it in 28 minutes on the dime for 7 minute mile average.  Since it was a race, I'll tell you I got 52nd in my gender and 15th in my age group.  What really matters, though, is that I beat Brian :)  Brian ran in 30:17 for about 7:35 minute miles.  He got 939th in his gender and 145th in his age group!  To be fair, he didn't really set out to "race" it - but just kind of to run it fast on a nice day.  

I would love to tell you all about those peanut butter chocolate chip cookies above and about the puppies, and all the other things that we did this weekend - but I have to shower and go to work now!!

Have a GREAT DAY!!!

Carpe diem,

J