Make My Day and a Blogger Interval Invite

Yesterday, I had a rough morning where I had to fail a “good” student. Then, just after that, I had a pick-me-up. This e-mail, with "I pulled a 'steve'" as it's subject, was sitting in my inbox from someone named Mindy:

My friend Jen and I read your site as often as our work schedule allows us to mess around. We think you’re hilarious.

So I went to Chicago this past weekend to do the “Go Vertical Chicago”, the race to the top of the Sears Tower… and just to make myself smile, I pulled a “Steve.”

I couldn’t locate a black marker at 5:30am, but a blue pen still made my day.

Keep up the good work Steve and Pharmie – you’re inspiration to us!

And this image was attached:

That made my day! If you recall, in any race where they mark my age on my leg, I ALWAYS ask the body-marker to place a smiley face on my other calf:

With Danielle and MissAllyCat at the Chisago Lakes Tri


Heading to the start of my most recent half IM with Pharmie


Finishing the bike at IM WI 2007

In other news: Borsch and I are recruiting local runners who want to do a interval workout on Saturday at 9 am in St. Paul. So far there are 6 of us: Borsch and myself; my wife Pharmie; Greg and Laura who both did Steelhead 70.3 this past year with Pharmie; and Julia who I met at a spinning class at the Y. If you have a good memory, you’ll remember seeing Greg on my blog before he started Steelhead - he forgot his bandaids for his nip-nips, so I gave him 2 of my bacon bandaids:

So if you’re interested, let me know! We’re all meeting at the University of St. Thomas track at 9 am on Saturday morning. It’s just about a mile south of I94 off the Cretin/Vandaila exit.

Borsch and I have an 800/100/200/100 x5 workout that we’re going to try, but we’re going to be running at different paces. Julia is going to run a 5K on the track. I don’t know what Laura and Greg are going to do. So swing by and run with us if you’re available - we’ll have all speeds running out there! We hope to do something like this every few weeks. Maybe a “stairs” workout shortly...

Again, there are just a few days left to vote for Steve in a Speedo for best Endurance Blog! Voting is closed on Sunday night!!

I’ll have photos from the interval workout on Saturday. And there’s a new Friday Funny coming tomorrow!