THANK YOU!!! No email despite whitelisting the from address. This worked. Nothing special there but I don't feel so left out now!
I echo the THANK YOU!!! I've gotten none of the emails, and I was feeling left out about the iGift bag too. Your link worked, and at least I got to see what I was missing.
Princess Joan, I LOVE the pictures!! Thanks for sharing.
Just finished my last long run before the race! 11 miles on the treadmill (we got almost 3 feet of snow Saturday). It's taper time!
Feeling prepared as long as treadmill running translates OK to on the ground. I added a long hill (1 mile at 3.5 incline) at mile 9 hoping to simulate the 10 mile overpass/cloverleaf. Does anyone know how long and steep that hill is? And/or any ideas about how treadmill inclines translate to actual hills?
Holy Cow! 11 miles on a treadmill! You're a hero. Treadmill is so much tougher in my opinion because it's so boring.
I went on my last long run yesterday. 10 miles!! It was tough conditions -- a really cold, hard wind was blowing. But I managed to get through it. My per mile time was the worst it's been in training but it got skewed by a totally weird event.
I was running with my friend who is my team partner for the race, and at about mile 8 we were going by a construction site and smelled gas. We stopped and wondered what to do. Ultimately, we decided that we'd rather call 911 and be wrong than do nothing and have something go horribly wrong like an explosion. So we called 911 and had to talk to the operator for several minutes. After the call we continued running. About 1/2 mile later, my friend's cell phone rings. It's the 911 operator, who asks whether we can go back to the site because the firemen don't smell the gas and want to know exactly where we were when we smelled it. So we turn around and start running back. We only ran for a few minutes when her phone rang again. It was the 911 operator again saying that we didn't have to go back anymore. The firemen found a break in a gas line. The operator thanked us for calling.
But with all the running back and forth, phone calls, time spent thinking about what to do, where was the smell coming from, etc. our time was bad. We decided not to sweat it. So not only did we get in our 10 but we were good citizens!
I can't believe it's so close! I'm really excited.
I was trying to be innovative, haha!
