July 4th, 2010
July 4th...one of my favorite holidays. 1 week after my daughter's birthday, 1 week before my wedding anniversary. Fireworks, baseball season, life is good. The perfect time to run a race, especially one for Autism like the Autism Speaks 5K Run for Autism in Potomac, MD. I've run this one before, way back when it was the Cure Autism Now 5K. I guess that makes me old school.
I am tickled to be wearing my new black Age of Autism T-shirt, which just arrived in the mail yesterday from my buddy Kim, who was kind enough to order a size small for me after telling me to go eat a doughnut. I'm not sure if Age of Autism and Autism Speaks have all the same ideas about autism treatment, but hey, it's Independence Day, so let's all come together to celebrate our future Independence from Autism, right? Yeah!
This is my first race with my new racing buddy from the South Riding Running Club, a cool group of runners you can hang out with if you visit http://www.srrunners.org/ . My buddy pretends like she is not a cool runner, and that she only runs so that she can eat whatever she wants. But I know the truth...she is lightning fast and way more experienced than she lets on. I am just hoping not to trip and embarrass myself in front of her. She takes some great pictures of me with my iPhone, since I just got back from the beach, where my son dropped my real camera in the sand and ruined the zoom lens.
As the race starts, I see my buddy for about 100 yards, at which point I am left behind in her dust cloud. I do try to run fast myself, though, as there are a lot of cool sponsor organizations on the back of my Age of Autism T-shirt that I want to show off to the crowd of runners behind me. I'm embarrassed to admit, I got passed by everyone under the age of 12 (how do little kids run so fast and ski so well?!) but that's only because I had just gotten back from vacation the night before. Everyone knows you don't train for a race on cinnamon roles and red wine, unless you're me on vacation, and then you do. I forgot how much I dislike drinking until this race, and then I remembered again. My friend placed in her age group...I did not.
I love running races for Autism. My head to toe black outfit was a little bit hot in the July weather, but I'll wear anything to show off my support for great Daily Web Newspapers of the Autism Epidemic. Age of Autism was nice enough to post one of my race pictures on their website to promote their new cool T-shirts. It was my first modeling gig. Why don't I remember to wear makeup to my races?
July 4th...one of my favorite holidays. 1 week after my daughter's birthday, 1 week before my wedding anniversary. Fireworks, baseball season, life is good. The perfect time to run a race, especially one for Autism like the Autism Speaks 5K Run for Autism in Potomac, MD. I've run this one before, way back when it was the Cure Autism Now 5K. I guess that makes me old school.
I am tickled to be wearing my new black Age of Autism T-shirt, which just arrived in the mail yesterday from my buddy Kim, who was kind enough to order a size small for me after telling me to go eat a doughnut. I'm not sure if Age of Autism and Autism Speaks have all the same ideas about autism treatment, but hey, it's Independence Day, so let's all come together to celebrate our future Independence from Autism, right? Yeah!
This is my first race with my new racing buddy from the South Riding Running Club, a cool group of runners you can hang out with if you visit http://www.srrunners.org/ . My buddy pretends like she is not a cool runner, and that she only runs so that she can eat whatever she wants. But I know the truth...she is lightning fast and way more experienced than she lets on. I am just hoping not to trip and embarrass myself in front of her. She takes some great pictures of me with my iPhone, since I just got back from the beach, where my son dropped my real camera in the sand and ruined the zoom lens.
As the race starts, I see my buddy for about 100 yards, at which point I am left behind in her dust cloud. I do try to run fast myself, though, as there are a lot of cool sponsor organizations on the back of my Age of Autism T-shirt that I want to show off to the crowd of runners behind me. I'm embarrassed to admit, I got passed by everyone under the age of 12 (how do little kids run so fast and ski so well?!) but that's only because I had just gotten back from vacation the night before. Everyone knows you don't train for a race on cinnamon roles and red wine, unless you're me on vacation, and then you do. I forgot how much I dislike drinking until this race, and then I remembered again. My friend placed in her age group...I did not.
I love running races for Autism. My head to toe black outfit was a little bit hot in the July weather, but I'll wear anything to show off my support for great Daily Web Newspapers of the Autism Epidemic. Age of Autism was nice enough to post one of my race pictures on their website to promote their new cool T-shirts. It was my first modeling gig. Why don't I remember to wear makeup to my races?
No need for make-up you hot mamma! I so enjoy reading your blog. XOXO!! See you soon in Austin I hope.
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