An Almost Perfect Weekend

Great friends, great weather, great times...this weekend was the kind of weekend I use to dream about having.

Girl's Night Out

The weekend started Friday night at Emily's (aka AssMint) house with a round or two of beers and a short walk across the street for some Mexican food. It ended with me passed out on Emily's couch. In between there were games, silly questions, make-up demos, boy bashing and lots more beer.

This was a new group of girls for me to hang with and I did enjoy myself. Thanks Ladies.

Saturday is a Hashing Day

Saturday's hash took me just a few miles down the road to East Lake Park off of Memorial Drive. It was a beautiful day and in spite of the Imman Park Festival going on up the road we had a good turn out of runners for the trail.

Piggy was laying his second trail in as many weeks with a first time hare Swinger. They took us through the sewer easements and old neighborhoods surrounding East Lake. We even had a special guest appearance by 4 Inch Hole, it was great to see her out. I was taking it easy that day in preparation for my run on Sunday. I had a very nice walk/talk with Cooter Scooter and Tasty Pie. Of course we were the last ones in but you couldn't have found a hotter looking pack of DFLs. :)

The initial choice for the on-after was Mi Barrio, since I had Mexican the night before I was going to skip it and go home for the night. I was still sober and I had a big (for me) race in the morning. There was a change of plans and it was decided to head to Oakhurst and hang on the patio at U-Joint. After a few pitchers of Terrapin a plan was hatched to have a party at High Dicker's house the next day. Many drunken phone calls were made and I was assigned the duty of sending out an email to all the others.

10 pm = me asleep on the couch.

Sprint for Cancer 10K

I awoke early on Sunday (5:30 am) to get ready for the drive to Atlantic Station for my first 10K. When I signed up for this I wanted to try to break an hour. I've been running pretty consistently for the past 4 months but felt that was still pretty unrealistic. I did however surprise myself with a time of about 1:02 (still waiting on the official word). I didn't hang around for any of the post race activities.

Update: My time was 1:02:04, I finished 11th in my age group and 200th overall.

I had to make a run to the store for dog food (my poor starving boys) on my way home. I quickly took a shower, fed the boys, spent 20 minutes looking for a key that was on my key chain the entire time and headed over to Bill's house with a box of beer and bloody mary makings.

Bill had spent the morning cooking 4 pounds of bacon. In spite of the short notice we had a nice crowd. Even a surprise visit from the elusive Public Enema. Thanks to Cathy, Karen, Dan, Jill, Dave, Jim and our host Bill for a great Sunday afternoon.

I'll post some pictures of the weekend soon.

No Rest for the Weary

Tonight a few of the girls are coming over for dinner and then tomorrow night is another talk with D...maybe I can rest on Wednesday.