Pharmie and I Like to Nap and Race...

...at the SAME time.

Pharmie’s yawning...


...and I’m catching a little shut-eye.

Yep, those are 2 actual, official photos from the TC 10 Mile and the TC Marathon from this past weekend. Good stuff! Here’s one of me at mile 4 feeling good:

Remember in my race report (2 posts down) how I passed a guy as I was running past my cheering section and he gave me the “stink eye?” I mentioned that guy came back to pass me before the finish. Well, here he is crossing the line just in front of me. We had the same official time, but he clearly finished first. (Frankly, I’m amazed we had the same finish time - this looks like more than 1 second to me...)

Emily (someone I “know from the internet”) snapped a photo of me running by just before mile 5. I had just pulled ahead of Doug (in the bright yellow) after talking with him for a bit - Doug and I met at a 10K a few weeks back.

Thanks for the photo, Emily!

Gary from Charities Challenge was a welcome sight for weary eyes at mile 9.25! He grabbed a LOT of photos of runners! You can see them all here if you’d like. I have a few of his that I’d like to share:

Me running by


LOTS of 10 Milers running the last mile


Ben and I walking past Gary’s “stand” once we grabbed our outfits


Ben and I with Jeanne and Roxann


In my mind, this guy ran the whole race doing this ;)


This guy’s done TC before - JUGGLING the entire way!


We noticed lots of EMS folks helping runners across the line.
Pharmie actually gave the women in the bandana her mylar blanket.


One last photo of Pharmie, Mike, and I as we were headed home!
Thanks for the photos, Gary!

Oh, and speaking of the farm animals, we DIDN’T make it into the paper this year, but we DID make it on their website. If you’ll remember, 2 years ago, I was seen here:

Mike (the pig) was PISSED that I was the only one that made it in the paper in 2007. Well, this year, only part of my arm made it on the newspaper’s website, while most of Mike’s “face” made it on:

Caption across the top of the image: Gaining momentum from the high-fives from a cow, pig, chicken and duck, a runner heads down hill to the finish line.

Problems with that caption:
1. He was at mile 25.8 of a marathon. We were able to offer him NO momentum at that point.
2. “Duck?” We had no duck. We had 2 chickens.
3. At that point (as the photo clearly shows), he’s still running uphill. The downhill doesn’t start for another few hundred feet.
4. Downhill is spelled "downhill," not "down hill."

I kid. The newspaper photographer made up for it by taking these final 2 awesome shots of the finishing area: