This year started out with an explosion! We (me, Jane and Carol) planned the Midnight adventure that lasted well past midnight. I didn't get home until after 3:30! I haven't stayed out that late in years. And I sure felt that. It took a few days to recover from that! Of course the next day I had to cook and be at my cousin's house. New Years is a major holiday in the Japanese culture.
Then on Saturday some of us took a 30 mile ride down the path. We started in Downey, rode to the beach for some good grub, then back up to the cars. What fun! The cold morning made it a bit hard to get motivated, but the sun came out and created a great day to ride. Even on the way back we didn't get much winds. It was pretty calm the whole time.
Now it's Sunday and the last day of my vacation. Bummer. But it's not a day of rest. Nope. It's a day to tear the house apart to give it a thorough cleaning. So no rest for me or Dave. I'm procrastinating because most of it is my clutter that needs to be organized. Hey, I think the table is the perfect place for...everything that doesn't have a place. Opps. Maybe I need to go on that organize it show. Or maybe I just need less stuff. Hmmm. I vote for the show. OK I'll stop procrastinating.
Hey did I mention we are thinking of doing a Summer Solstice adventure? Just a short one. I think we'll start from our house. I already have 2 locations in mind and clues and games to go with them. We only have 5 months to get that going. But first I want to have the back pavers put in so people have a place to sit. I have that location marked out in my mind. Now it's a matter of getting it dug out, the wood border placed, sand put in, and then the pavers.
I also need to mark the races we want to do this year. We are cutting back, so I think it will be the AR in April, Dave is doing Wilson. I'm skipping Wilson this year since the last 2 years in a row I've injured my knee. Sucks. Maybe I'll do the Pasadena Half. That's in March. The Firecracker Run in Feb. We are doing the Maui Half with Dave's dad in Sept. Better get this all marked in the calender first. And we have said we will ride miles on the road bike at least once a month.
OK I'LL STOP PROCRASTINATING. What a way to start the new year.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Friday, January 2, 2009
It's been 2 weeks since my last blog, but it feels like 2 months. So much has happened. Mainly the holidays. Christmas was spent with my family...and pretty uneventful. Then the BIG plans. New Year's Eve!
Normally my New Years is spent in front of the TV watching the ball drop, then off to bed. But not this year. Jane, Carol and I planned our Inaugural Midnight Mauraders Year-to-Year adventure. We has so much fun planning this. All the evil deeds we hoped to put our friends through, Loving put our friends through. It kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger, more checkpoints, more tasks, more ideas. People RSVPing, then having to cancel, others RSVPing that day, more undecided, more bringing friends. In the end, we had 13 people participating in the race and a total of 17 in all. We figured (I was actually a bit worried this might be too short) that the fastest people would finish in just over an hour, most in about 1 1/2 hours. Opps. We were a bit wrong with that one. The first finishers were in about 1 hr 15 min. The last team was in about 2 hr 15. But every minute was fun, full of laughs, comraderie, bonding.
We already have ideas going around for the end of 2009, and it's only Jan 2nd! HA!
This morning I woke up thinking about a Summer Solstice run. Maybe from our house, if we get the back pavers put in. Otherwise we don't have anywhere to put people. Right now if we get more than 12 people, we have to take numbers to sit in the backyard! I can have Dave string lights across the driveway and we can put tables there, just provide something to level the tables since the driveway slopes downhill :)~
I would love to post a picture of the event, but I've become so bad in taking pictures. Bummer!
Normally my New Years is spent in front of the TV watching the ball drop, then off to bed. But not this year. Jane, Carol and I planned our Inaugural Midnight Mauraders Year-to-Year adventure. We has so much fun planning this. All the evil deeds we hoped to put our friends through, Loving put our friends through. It kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger, more checkpoints, more tasks, more ideas. People RSVPing, then having to cancel, others RSVPing that day, more undecided, more bringing friends. In the end, we had 13 people participating in the race and a total of 17 in all. We figured (I was actually a bit worried this might be too short) that the fastest people would finish in just over an hour, most in about 1 1/2 hours. Opps. We were a bit wrong with that one. The first finishers were in about 1 hr 15 min. The last team was in about 2 hr 15. But every minute was fun, full of laughs, comraderie, bonding.
We already have ideas going around for the end of 2009, and it's only Jan 2nd! HA!
This morning I woke up thinking about a Summer Solstice run. Maybe from our house, if we get the back pavers put in. Otherwise we don't have anywhere to put people. Right now if we get more than 12 people, we have to take numbers to sit in the backyard! I can have Dave string lights across the driveway and we can put tables there, just provide something to level the tables since the driveway slopes downhill :)~
I would love to post a picture of the event, but I've become so bad in taking pictures. Bummer!
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