Here I go again!

In Rehoboth Beach, Delaware - drove up yesterday after the race, to my friend Tricia's house. It's her birthday weekend and her parents let her have friends at their beach house. A great group of people, we had too much fun, made great food, ate lots, danced lots, got too much sun, not enough exercise. Weather wasn't too great but could have been worse. Some swimming yesterday too.

Three miles barefoot on the sand, slow, recovery jog. Walked lots on the beach too. Drove back in the evening, traffic wasn't bad thankfully.

No running today, legs feel tired! Biked to Chevy Chase after work on the CCT, great weather, headwind but that makes it for a better workout!

Biked to the office from Chevy Chase in the morning, great weather, super fast ride, love it!

Biked around the city at lunch to run some errands, but didn't run...

Biked to Chevy Chase on the CCT after work, another great ride though I felt I was going to pass out but didn't want to slow down... headwind was pretty strong... Two days with no running, that's not good, but my legs feel tired still, not sure why... I think I need a taper week...

Biked to the office from Chevy Chase. Awesome bike ride.

Ran after work from home on East Capitol down and around the Capitol reflective pool and back home on East Capitol. 45 minutes, so about 4.5 miles, pretty sure I was doing 10-min miles or so. Felt pretty good.

Ok so check this out - the "Before" and "After" pics...

This is from last year's Lawyers Have Heart 10k...

"Camera? Which camera, I don't see anything... I'm just smiling cause I'm happy to be running!"

This one is from last week's LHH...

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/PLg7zYwTRFCaK6TgHIEQxQ?feat=directlink

Not sure why it won't work...

Check out those muscles! MrFit watch out, the Rocket is coming!

Now the critical side of me says why do my hands always look weird in race pics???

Office to Chevy Chase, 1 hr 06 min - after the rain, I was hoping the air would be nice and light, but it was quite muggy... not too hot though at least. A good run, took it easy. Tried a new route and went through a new neighhborhood in Maryland called Martin's Additions. Beautiful houses, so quiet... very nice.

My route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2931636

From Chevy Chase to the office in an absolutely gorgeous morning. Sunny, not too hot, just perfect.

Had some trouble with mid-section cramps... not sure why, I've had a lot of that lately. This morning was worse than before, I had to stop... I wasn't going very fast, and it happened mostly when I was going downhill. Tried slowing down and taking deep belly breaths but didn't work too well. They went away after a few minutes, but still it was not fun.

My route this morning, a little shorter but not as scenic:

URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2930134

Funnest. Race. Ever. Period. Everyone needs to do this race next year.

The Quantico marine base is only open to the public a few times a year, and this was one of them. The 4-mile trail course was super tough, very hilly and difficult. The obstacles were great, there was a tire dash, some hay steeplechase, lots of mudpits to cross, a muddy part of the trail that you had to crawl under a tarp, a steep part that you had to rapel down (that one kind of sucked, it wasn't steep enough), and by the end they had a fire truck with a hose to clean you up.

I ran with my co-workers Hank and Mike, they had a blast too, though we went very slow cause Hank is just back from an injury.

One for the books indeed!