Mongoose takes on Ghost Hunters!

Latest Race Update

 
Hey everyone, not much new and exciting happening but I did want to share some info from our most recent race. We ran in the MDHA Help the Homeless 5k. It is part of a help the homeless week in Dallas and was held at Fair Park which is where the State Fair of Texas takes place, and the location of the Cotton Bowl Stadium. We weren't sure how well we would do because for the past several weeks our running schedule has been pretty empty for various reasons, but the race is just about the running and having fun with friends so we plodded along and ran it. We ran with several of Richard's coworkers and made several new friends as well. Running is a great way to meet people in case that becomes your motivation. Here are the wonderful before and after pictures!!

 

Here you can see our overall race finishing places. Richard was #67 and I was #68. I like to think that this is pretty damned impressive for not having run in about a month. My personal favorite part is when we look at the results by age group. In the second picture you can see that Richard finished 9th in his age group which is awesome!! And below that you can see my age group and I placed 4th!!! I missed a medal by about 36 seconds. Had I know while the race was going on that I was that close, I would have pushed thru those rough patches and just paid the price after the race.  Damn you hindsight!! Thanks for taking a minute to read this and for letting me brag just a little. As always I welcome comments and feel free to follow my blog. You never know what craziness you may find here next.

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Here is a fun continuation of all the Halloween displays that I posted previously. I am guessing this will be the only Thanksgiving one that I find since everyone seems to already have the Christmas displays built. You can look forward to a post that includes those coming up soon. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!!

Richard's B-Day/Halloween 2011 Pics

Fun stuff coming up and some Halloween treats!!

I want to start off by saying how excited we were about this race that was being held in Austin in December. Seriously, combining running, obstacle courses and ZOMBIES, who could ask for more. We were pumped for the race and for a quick trip to Austin. However when I went to register us for the race, I realized that the Austin race was in December of 2012 not 2011. Which means that its going to be one very long year until we get to live out this little fantasy, but at least we have something to look forward to. Hopefully the Mayan's got it wrong, I will be pissed.

Next up on my plate is something totally exciting and scary all at the same time. I have registered to participate in NaNoWriMo. Which is one of those wonderful acronyms standing for National Novel Writing Month. Basically, it is a writing challenge in which you have the entire month of November to write a 50,000 word novel. I got a wild hair and decided this was a challenge I wanted to accept. It is also a fun tool for writers to use where they can throw all conventional writing out the window. Winning is based on quantity not quality. While I don't expect to have a 100% publishing ready novel at the end, I will have the rewarding feeling that comes with accomplishing something completely unexpected. I will try and blog once a week about my progress. Wish me luck and send me messages of support!!!



Lastly, in my job, I am in big box retailers and grocery stores and I see tons of Halloween displays that are very creative so I figured I would share them with you in honor of the season. Clearly pumpkins are the winning theme.

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!

Walking Dead Mongoose

In honor of Halloween and Season 2 of Walking Dead, Mongoose takes on the undead!!

Running, it isn't just for exercise anymore!

Hey everyone, I have been bad about keeping this updated for a while, but here is where we start up again!!! Yes yes, your thundering cheers and applause are inspiring! Well, let's get right to it, here we go. As I have talked about before, we have been running 5 days a week and have recently started doing actual races. We did one in September for Wipe Out Kids' Cancer and then this past weekend we did Race for the Cure.

 
It's great, you donate money to a cause you feel passionate about, you get some good exercise, and who could pass up FREE T-SHIRTS!!!!!

Mongoose brought the rain!!