Category: Personal

quite blog, busy life

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I just spent the last half hour or so reading through Ian’s blog, realizing that I haven’t touched mine in over a month. It’s just been that so much has been going on, with a visit from Joyce, and then from my parents and grandparents…

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…followed shortly there after by a whirlwind trip to New York/New Jersey for a wedding, a visit from Matt & Amy, and then some crazy karaoke…

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And that was all in about the span of a single month!  And that doesn’t even cover the Half to the Hook or my trip to China… from which I’ll post pictures eventually. I’ve already been up too late posting all of these pictures tonight, and I have got to get ready for book club tomorrow. Looking forward to talking about Candy Girl. :)

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team work

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The other side of running in Portland was how much fun it was to run with so many awesome friends (even though we weren’t all running “together”). It was particularly cool seeing everyone who ran meet their individual goals: M getting back on the distance running horse not even a year after surgery, Andy’s first marathon clocked in at under 1.5 hours, Aaron beat his first half-marathon time by a significant margin… everyone just did awesome. As per usual, the pics are posted here. There are some pretty wretched ones of me at the finishline that pretty much tell the story of how I felt at the end!

goals, priorities and planning

Race for the Roses Half Marathon 4-5-2009, Course

Two weeks ago I rocked my first half marathon. At the outset, the endeavor of running 13.1 miles was daunting. Like any good management project, goals and priorities had to be set and a plan established in line with those goals. To define success, each goal was assigned a priority:

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