peer pressure

don't believe those afterschool specials kiddies - sometimes peer pressure is a very good thing. like when your running partners are all lukewarm at best about the prospect of a 5:30a departure for a 5 I MEAN 4 person relay that you signed up for long long ago, in the heady days of summer. but lo and behold, you too feel lukewarm about the idea of dedicating the better part of your sunday to driving/waiting on I-96 due to construction, going on a bus and then waiting for your 50-80 min of go time game face in rainy cold conditions, then driving/waiting on I-94, I-96, I-75, etc. etc. so casually someone brings it up, one thing leads to another, and you end up at cafe zola at an easy breezy 9a breakfast date instead of the cold hard punishing (did you see the previous entry about fragile toenails?) detroit marathon route. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

so i must say i'm not too disappointed that we didn't run today. and this certainly was a learning experience: don't sign up for a race more than a month in advance, no matter how much of a good idea it may seem like at the time. that said, there's a turkey trot on thanksgiving in detroit rock city...

just jokes fellow AARS! unless, of course, you want to run. i mean, all the cool kids are doing it (actually, i think the cool strategic kids are running the mashed potato mile because the top 500 finishers get a coveted "award" (p-loop, are you reading this??) vs. only the top 3 in each age group for the turkey trot). i mean, come on. you don't want to be UNCOOL do you? just try it once...

nuff said

 
 

Sometimes a picture is worth more than a thousand words...

An unnamed road scholar has unfortunately discovered that her freakishly long "pinky" toe is losing its nail. At the expo today, the other scholars suggested she have the onsite physician examine it for... fungus!! Thankfully, thet schoar is fungus-free. But as you can all to clearly see, about to lose that toe nail. Grosssssss. But cool.

I'll leave the rest of the marathon relay story up to apoz, who like me has been chastised for poor blogging count.

a fungus among us?

 
 

hindsight is 20-20

it seemed like such a good idea back in the summer. enjoy the benefits of a marathon without all of the pain by entering the relay marathon. i don't think we'll have to worry too much about hyponatremia this time, since it's going to be both cold and rainy on sunday and we're each only running a mere 5 to 8 miles each ( uh, thanks anne job?)

the only source of inspiration is the potential to bring home the trophies! we can't quite figure out what category we've registered for, but last year's university/college category only had two entries and their times, while respectable, are well within reach (read: we plan to kick some serious academic ass).

this is our last "major" event of the season- and I think the aars are ready for a little break. it appears that, gasp, dissertating is cutting into running (and blogging) time - talk about effed up priorities !!

anyway, wish us luck this weekend!