Talmadge Bridge
Tonight at Fleet Feet there was a race packet stuffing party. Everybody that showed up to stuff stuff into the race packet bags for this weekend’s Tybee Island 1/2 marathon and 5k got a free slice of pizza and a free race registration (if they had not already registered). Unfortunately, I registered in December for the race. So, I got one slice of pizza and no free registration. I had fun, though, walking around in the human conveyor belt with a bag in my hand having people drop little bits of this and that into each bag. After making your way around the droppers you hand your bag to some one to stuff into a box.
Its a great way to meet people. Everyone is in a good mood and looking forward to this coming run. I did the same thing back in December for the Savannah River Bridge run. Its all really cool. And, as I worked my way round and round carrying bag from dropper to dropper to boxer I had a blast. And, I took lots of pictures and some of the pics are on this blog entry and on the Savannah Running Facebook page. Check out the FB page. Hopefully, next time you can be a part of this fun.
my pizza
Fleet Feet Pizza
After the packet party I went home, cooked a pizza, jumped on the elliptical for 30 minutes while watching Shaun of the Dead and talked to my mother for about 15 minutes. What a mamma’s boy. Ha. Shaun of the Dead is a great movie, if you haven’t seen it.
I’ve decided that I’m going to run the 1/2 marathon Saturday with my 5fingers. What the heck. You only live once. If my feet fall off at the end of the race at least I’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that I ran 13.1 miles with the 5fingers. I’ll just have to learn to hobble along on stubs. No biggie.
packet stuffing party people
On the elliptical I burned 517 calories and logged 1.43 miles. You know, I just had a thought. I wonder how many miles my Iphone would map on the elliptical for the same duration of time? Hmm….that’s a brain twister, eh? If the elliptical said that I ellipticized 1.43 miles, how many miles would my iphone map using the mapmyrun app? Try to figure that one out.. 
The picture at the top is of the Talmadge Bridge. That’s the bridge we have to run during the Savannah River Bridge run every December. Looks inviting, doesn’t it? Its tougher than it looks to scale…trust me. Anyway, I took that picture this afternoon after lunch as I was going back to training. I’m taking a Windows 7 training course this week. Lots of fun.
Even the sleeping walking kid took part in the packet stuffing fun
Tomorrow, I’ll run again and then lift weights. Thursday, one more run of about 6 miles. Friday, a little ellipticizing. Saturday, 1/2 marathon with 5fingers. Yeah.
Thanks for taking the time to read my running blog.
peace and pizza,
dh
02/02/2010
PS: I’m very ticked off with that dang groundhog, punxsutawny, wow, that’s a mouthful. I say we fire that nasty critter. No, lets eat him! No, that’s gross. I’m sounding just like Fenwick when he said he would eat my dog, Isabella. Btw, he also wanted to eat some one else’s dog. That young lady that I talked to at the dairy farm the other day told me that Fenwick said that her dog would make a good barbecue. That’s just wrong.
Anyway, I’m just not happy that the groundhog saw his shadow and now we have six more weeks of winter. I want summer now!
peace, again.
punxsa....whatever -the groundhog