I’m plopping this here on my blog more for ME than anyone else! Saturday was a big day for me, so I hope you don’t mind if I record it for posterity! I use Oh Life! as an online journal to record my days so that I don’t forget things, and sometimes I write in “stream of consciousness.” I hope you will forgive the spelling and grammar and total disorganization here!
Runaway Pumpkin Half Marathon!!
We woke up, got dressed and were out the door in record time. We had a fun, relaxing …

I ran this race three weeks ago, and realized that I still hadn’t posted about it on my blog for my own records (my online scrapbook!). I use Oh Life! to record my everyday events, so I had already written about this day. I’m just cutting and pasting! Please forgive the lack of organization here. Brains don’t function very well when you’re physically exhausted! Thanks for humoring me! AND, sorry about the poop references, but runners will understand the seriousness of the situation. HA!!

The Oregon Marathon and Half

I got up …

Exactly 8 days before the Hood to Coast Relay, my friend Ken Facebook messaged me asking if I could fill in for an injured runner. My first thought was YES!! YES, please!! My second thought was, “Please don’t let it be Runner 5!” See, my friend Julie posted a chart on Facebook a couple of months ago when she found out that she was going to be Runner 9 in the “Mother of All Relays”: the longest distance (at 20.45 miles) and the second in difficulty (with a rating of …