Since we have a four event weekend upon us, I'm gonna try to keep up on the ol' blog. No promises, though.
After fighting through Friday rush hour traffic, I made my way to pick up Camera Crew from work. We had our first evening run and I gotta say it felt weird. We do all of our training runs in the morning and thus far all of our events have been morning races. This one just seemed way different. My body clock was telling me I should be making dinner and preparing for the usual evening at home with the wife. But here we were driving out to Clackamas Community College to run a 5k.
As I said before, we have four events this weekend - 3-5k's and a 30+ mile bike ride. The 50@50 Project is making great strides and the culmination of this big weekend is that we'll be halfway through!
In all the registration confusion we realized today that we had spaced out signing up for this event! We paid a little more for same day registration but it was still a bargain at $20. We weren't sure what to expect at this event - we assumed it would be a pretty small crowd and were surprised at the number of people who turned out. Plus there was the always-cute kids race.
The whole crowd walked over to the college track for the kids run. They were doing a 1/4 mile, one lap around the track. It was so much fun to watch these little folks stretching and warming up, or at least trying to do what they see the grownups doing. Their race started and they took off, some tearing around the track and others toddling around. A few of them stopped a few times and had to be coaxed along by parents or siblings. It's super cute and they are so excited when they hit the finish line.
One rant: They gave all the kids ribbons for finishing, which is kinda cool. But they gave the boys blue ribbons and the girls pink ribbons. Maybe not a big deal but I thought they should have given them all blue ribbons, since those are associated with 'first place'. It's like the boys got first place and the girls got... pink ribbons. Meh, okay - maybe not a rant - more like leftover pissed off feelings from the mall visit.
Our race started at the track and consisted of two laps around the Clackamas Community College campus. It's a beautiful area and it was a nice run. The evening was overcast so it was a little humid, but mostly it was pleasant. We both turned in decent times and felt pretty good afterwards.
Then the injury happened. Yes, after the event. Now, keep in mind that we've done over twenty races thus far and many of them have had high potential for injury. Most recently, last Sunday's Mt. Hood Scramble; a couple of weeks before that it was Havoc at the Hideout. Yep, consider all of the XDog races chances to get hurt. Add to it the many obstacle course races we've done, mud runs, trail runs, bike rides, and it's pretty amazing neither of us has gotten hurt. Yes, we've had some bruises, cuts, scrapes and I'm sure we'll have more. But this injury - yikes.
I would explain it to you in detail but it's probably just best to watch the 'wrap' video. Three things you should know: it happened to Camera Crew; it's pretty gnarly; don't give her any lip about it.
We took off for home and enjoyed the drive back into town. Chillin', bloggin', eatin', and preppin' for the run tomorrow morning out at Hagg Lake, Running For Risa.
Talk to ya tomorrow!
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