1. A huge shout out to MissZippy! There’s a guest post up by her over at Metro DC Mom. She was kind enough to write up a review for me on a local event that I haven’t attended, so go show her a little love there or at her blog.
2. “Mama Goes Masters” viritual race report #2 – the 4 mile edition. 4 miles in 35:33. I ran intervals on the treadmill today: 5 half mile intervals at an 8:07 pace. For some reason, this felt harder than the 8 minute full miles I did outside last week. Go figure. It was hot. I got sweaty. My awesome headband from Tonia at Racing with Babes stayed in place. What more can I ask for?
Thank you all for the awesome birthday wishes. It was great to wake up to lots of happy birthdays here and on Facebook. Really made my morning. I had a pretty good day. The boys and I went to the National Geographic Museum, which was pretty cool. Jones and Shoo gave me a lovely necklace. I ran the aforementioned mileage. Then we had Thai food for dinner and I drank one of my remaining Dominion Baltic Porters (one of the few left from when they brewed in VA). All in all, it was an awesome day. Still up – dinner at Mad Fox this weekend and then drinking with friends on September 11 (had to find a non-home game weekend). Stalkers are welcome on 9/11 as long as they buy me beer. ;o) And if you didn’t click over to my other blog, here’s what you missed…
3. I’ve gotten lots of fun race reports and gathered cool stuff. The winners of the 4 and 8.25 mile virtual races will get a pair of socks and a few energy type things (gu, nuun, bars, or the like). All of the 40K participants (I know of 3 so far) will get a little something special. I will then give out at least 3 (probably more) prizes to randomly selected winners. Prizes will include socks, a TMB headband (donated by the lovely Tonia), and whatever energy items I have left. Winners will be announced on Sunday (probably).*Disclaimer: All items except the headband were purchased by me.*
See the list of participants below. If there is not an * next to your name, I haven’t heard from you (or your email went to spam). If I don’t have your info by Saturday, you lose your chance to win a prize.) Thank you to all you awesome people who made my 40th birthday something to be excited about instead of something to dread!!!
Abbi *
AJH*
Alma*
AM-Goals for the Week
Amanda
Amy *
Amy
Aneta
AngieB
Ashley*
AshleyR
Badgergirl*
Becca*
Bobbi *
Brian*
C.Mom *
Canadian Runner *
Christina *
Christy
Darlene
Dash
Dr. Ray*
Elizabeth *
Erika
G*
Gene
GingerTre *
Grace
Heather
Hunnybee *
J *
James *
Jamie*
Jamoosh *
Jane
Janet*
Jen
Jess *
JoyRun
Julie
Kathy
Katie A.
Kellie
Kiesha *
KJ
Kristin*
Laura*
LauraElaine
Laurie
Lindsey and J*
Lisa
Lisa
Marlene*
Michelle
Miriam
Miss Zippy
Molly
Nicki *
OrangeBlossom
P*
Pam*
Rene’*
Rio *
Running Diva Mom*
RunningLaur
Sarah
Shelly
SlowlyGrowingOldTogether *
Stephanie *
Suzy *
TMB*
Tortuga Runner
Twilight
Wendy
X-Country2
Xenia*
Baltic Porter sounds yummy. Happy Birthday once again.You can take me out of the running for the prizes. I have my own energy solution and lord knows my sock drawer is full!
Sounds like you had a great day with a few more things in the hopper:) Birthdays are meant to be celebrated…so have at it!I ran my virtual last night…race report coming soon.
great list of runners!
Love the photo! Hope you had a wonderful birthday! Looks like you had quite a few people participate in your virtual race! How fun. Wish I would have been on my game with this one and I would have participated as well!
Look at that huge list of virtual runners!
Thank you for the shout out! And wow–you have a lot of participants in your run–good job!
What a great turnout, that's quite the list!
Hope you had a GREAT BIRTHDAY!! I put a post up for my virtual race using my intervals. Let me know if cause a scandal! :)http://rundash.blogspot.com/2010/08/mama-goes-masters-virtual-race-4-miler.html
Who is the other 40K runner? I want to read that report!
What a great turn out for your Virtual Race! Too fun. Glad you had a great day!
Ditto Tonia! Who was the 3rd 40Ker?
What a great turnout for your virtual race! Just ran my 4 this morning and posted my race report – I'll email it to you shortly.
sounds like a lovely birthday, with a great beer!
sounds like a great birthday! and you better keep celebrating. birthday celebration weeks are a must 🙂
happy birthday! sounds ilke you had a great day! so amazing that all those ppl joined your virtual race! congrats! 🙂
glad you had a great birthday!!what a fun bunch of runners!here's my race report:http://gracemontalvo13.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-first-virtual-race-update.html
I'm such a loser for missing out on this opportunity. There will be another one right?! 😉
I love Miss Zippy!That photo is priceless.WOW! You will have a zillion race reports to read! Now I'm glad I kept my short for you.
I love when you get to drag your birthday out as long as possible! Nice job on the 4 miler!
Ahahaha! I love the family pic. Your Dad's suit is probably one of the best 70's attire I've seen. Thanks for sharin'!
Wow, that's a lot of participants! I don't envy you the work of sorting through all of us!
I was going to do the 40 on Saturday but will be out of town for the weekend. Might get some other distance done today.
So sad, I have no *. I emailed you last night so maybe Spam? My race report is currently up on my blog.
happy bday!maybe my email went to spam, but i did participate in the virtual race and have a link to my report: http://marathon26.blogspot.com/2010/08/mama-goes-masters-virtual-race-report.htmlthx–it was fun!
Sounds like an awesome birthday!
Okay, I did my tempo this morning, another virtual race report: http://rundash.blogspot.com/2010/08/mcm-mama-virtual-race-non-stop-4-miler.htmlHappy Bday again! 🙂 Dash is glad this is the last one, she's tired of playing dress up with me!
what a rockin birthday! My race report will be up today about 1!! Seriously fun way to celebrate
Just trying to catch up on blogs – happy belated birthday!
so i posted friday but didn't send you the link! http://runtothefinish.blogspot.com/2010/08/mcm-virtual-race-report.html