Will the Real ATR please stand up?

More from the dueling Photoshoppers:


Margaret B's version ( i wish i were that ripped )


Rock's version (look closely for all the details)



original photo

SO, did I mention we ran 8 miles (really 9 with the .5 warm up and cool down) last Saturday? Yep ! lame knee me..
SO, did I mention how happy this is making me?

By the way, if I never post to this blog again it's because I'm too busy playing umpteen games of Scrabble on Facebook, and in real time at the dining room table... now you know the source of the original photo.. joking about cheating at scrabble.

Nooka CHAMPS !!!

Val, Gina and I owned our age group podium up at the Nookachamps races, held in Mt. Vernon, WA.
Val took 2nd to some speedster in the 5K race, I got 1st and Gina 3rd in the 10K. So we took our ribbons and went to breakfast. and didn't eat the rest of the day.

My time? 53:50 so you know all the fast gals were in the half marathon or 5K. But I still felt pretty good about my effort, as I haven't done a long tempo run in quite some time. We had a fun time, and plan to find some more races to do.

I also was a winner because i saw 2 trumpeter swans fly overhead... and heard them, too.

And today my photoshopping buddy, Rock, sends this little gem..

Titled : Train to Win

Happy Birthday to Annalise

I'm getting lazy in HER old age , 17 , and posting something I made ages ago.. (July of 2005). Obviously, I had not yet learned to add music to my slide show. Also, now that I tested it, it moves rather slowly, so you might want to just manually slide the slider along.

The sweet young thing in this video is now old enough and legally able to drive a car. Now that would have been an awesome birthday gift. Wish I'd thought of it earlier. oh well.

OK having serious issues uploading my video so instead i found this lil nugget...........get your maracas ready!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrff-R0iyXo

American Idol starts tonight...

God, I wish I didn't know that.



Here are a couple entrants that should be on tv but somehow missed the call.

What I did on my Christmas Vacation

I posed for photographs with my relatives.

bob

kyle

krissy

tara

kyle

bob and patty, and scarves (NYC style)

patty

patty and jim

patty and mom

mom

Art... isn't this a diverse blog?

News from one of our runner buddies in California... the leader of the famous Women on the Run team. T erri H ill. She's not just a super fast runner, a great leader and motivator for the team, uber organized for the relay races, and extremely attractive and charming. T ee H ee. Did I mention she's just a really nice person and good friend? and fast ?
Gawd, I don't know how Laura lives with her...

Terri is also an acclaimed artist. And it's time to toot her horn ! She is always having an opening or a showing or juried show, or whatever, down in California and we never go. (loser friends that we are) But she is spot lighted on a watercolor artists blog this week.

http://brush-paper-water.blogspot.com/

and I can certainly share the awareness with my loyal blog readers.

http://www.designerhill.com/ her own website

Congratulations, Terri.

Icy dips

So, here are the race day shots from Fotojack.com


coach lesley
(the kid in the orange was not going to jump in, i encouraged him to do so,at about 100 yards out) (he thanked me later) not.


gina water's at her thighs, only up to the knees of super tall hat & glove guy


ATR no, i'm not cold..

P-nak vows to never to this race again.

Resolution Run and Polar Bear Dip

Here are a few pre and post race photos.... the funny thing is we all look like we're freezing in both .. it was not a nice day, weather-wise.


Before -- katie, P-nak (patricia), michael, steve and jan


After -- p-nak , steve (already changed clothes) gina, atr, coach lesley, andrea, katie



fuzzy finishers !

michael and jan coming out of the water. and looking like it was FUN !!

mystery woman in the white see thru shirt.

pre-race.... don't worry, we tossed those ugly orange t-shirts...( burnt rust ) along the way.

Happy New Year

Running Crazy is the name of this darn blog. So, running it will be. This past week I managed a 6, followed by a 4 (yes, back to back days !!) then a spin class, then a 5k race, a day of rest, and today 6 miles with the Saturday morning group.

Life is as it should be.

I've only got a photo of the post race beer garden.. Coach should have a few pre and post shots.
Andrea, on the right side, is part of coach lesley.com running... we suckered a few of them into diving in. Couldn't get them to the garden. And the 3 others are BGB's (beer garden buddies)(strangers, but really nice and fun) and the dude didn't even change out of his wet shorts... brrrrrrrrrrrr
Loyal Blog reader Laura ran the race. Judy F and Wendy J ran but did not dip.

But where was Pam Banks ??