cleaned up

Fridays are so happy. Zoe and I had a great weekend together. I'll try to take some video of her catching the frizbee. She's getting REALLY good! She jumps and catches it all the time. When her best friend Megan (English Pointer) plays defense, it's even more amazing. She gets between Zoe and the frizbee and pushes her so she can't catch it in the air. So now Zoe's been working really hard to run faster to catch the fribee before it hits the ground. You can tell she is really driven and motivated and gets more satisfaction out of catching it in the air.

Well, yesterday after the dogs had been playing together for awhile, Zoe totally runs a fake on Megan! It was awesome! And I saw it coming. It was like we were reading each other's mind! It went something like this: "Ok Mom, watch this! I'll hit the corner and then cut across the field. Watch for me to be wide open. Megan will never see it coming."

It totally worked and we both cheered with victory! (Megan's owner Tom and I)

I said, "Did you see that?!" "Zoe totally duped Megan!"

What a great feeling!

May 4th 2008

A decision is underway: which race to run on May 4th?
Eugene Marathon/half
Vancouver Marathon/half
Bloomsday

beautiful fall

I took Zoe to Bennington Lake this morning as a treat (and so she could expend some energy since I not up to running yet). I'm so glad I decided to take my camera. I could've stayed there all day. Funny how the simple things really make life beautiful and can bring us the most joy.

The lake is really low-- here's what's underneith.

more pics

me at mile 20 with Kirsten



recovering on the couch at the Taylors

photo link

Here's a picture of me finishing.
http://www.racephotos.net/476752

Christ gave me strength

Place Overall: 2018 out of 7724
Women: 629 out of 4195
F 25-29: 145 out of 653

FINISH: 4:02:50 pace: 9:16
10k: 55:32 pace: 8:57
Turn-9.1Mi: 1:19:40 pace: 8:46
Half: 1:56:06 pace: 8:52
17.2 M: 2:42:42 pace: 9:28
20 Mile: 3:03:46 pace: 9:12

Whoo Hoo!!!! I would've liked to have been in less pain throughout, but I totally rocked it, even still. Thank you Lord! Even though it wasn't pretty. I'm glad there's not a video.

It's marathon time

Pray for me! I leaving Walla Walla Sat. morning for Portland. And in the dark of night Sunday morning I will be dropped off downtown to start the race at 7AM. Hopefully I will be done by 11AM-- but keep praying after that anyway.
The main concern I have is that I've been battling a sinus infection all week and haven't run, but 1 mile yesterday. So my running muscles are definately rested, but I wouldn't say that my body is strong. Pray that God would give me strength.

FUEW!

NO MURDER TRIAL FOR ME! Thank you Lord. Though I am still "on the call list" for the whole month of Oct. to serve on a jury.
We'll talk details in person. --but at least now I can talk about it!