It's New Year's Resolutions time! You know, the time of year to make those little promises to yourself that last one, maybe two weeks tops. I have to be honest, I do enjoy seeing all the new faces at the gym then watching them dwindle down until it's only the same faces that I've seen for years. I've never understood the concept of resolutions. I respect making the decision to change something for the better, but waiting for a specific date to roll around to officially start, sorry but it's doomed to fail. If that goal isn't burning deep down inside you because you want it so bad to want to make it happen immediately, then waiting for this magical date isn't going to any difference.
1/11/11 at 1:00 (probably should have been 1:11 huh?) was when the race started. It is a cool date and time, but for me the significance had nothing to do with the 1's, or starting any resolutions. I did break out my Cake is a liar shirt to secretly goof on people who were starting the New Year active, yet will probably be on the couch come next month. My real reason to stand out out in the cold, run a few miles, on a day I'd normally lay on the couch and watch football all day, the company. With five friends around, all wanting to be active, the decision is pretty easy and the uniqueness of the date plays no part in it.
It was great that the conditions weren't blizzard like, which I wondered about when I signed myself up for this event a month ago. The day before, temps were in the 40's! Which only caused some overconfidence, because when it came to race time, with the wind, it was still darn cold! Crazy Train brought her niece to run the race with us. Her name is Bug and I swear I didn't make that one up! Becca kept Bug company and warm in the car while CT and I did two laps of the park prior to the race starting. Our team leaders were suppose to meet us and do them with us, but just like everything so far, we were left to do our own thing (that doesn't count as complaining, when it's a fact does it?).
One One One equals three in my book, which also happens to be the number of things I'm going to remember about this race. The first, CT predicted that Bug would start out fast, hit the good sized hill in the middle of the course and proceed to walk up it. Bug did start out fast and with the number of people participating, that alone was a challenge. We lost sight of Bug a number of times, but by the time we got to the hill we were shadowing her. CT and Bug may be related, but this Bug has wings or something because she POWERED up that hill! I couldn't have planned it any better, not that I like to tease or anything, but being able to look over at CT and say "Oh yeah, it really looked like she had trouble with that hill" rolling my eyes with a smirk made my day!
My second favorite moment was almost at the end of the race when CT proved again to me that we are very similar because I think she too likes to pick a villain out. I believe her comment was "how is that possible", when she spotted a kid (all four feet of him) that was maybe 5 or 6 years old still ahead of us running with his parents. Fun run or not, there are just some people that you don't want to finish behind. I generally pick adults for my villains, apparently CT has no shame picking on little kids, so to keep her ego safe, we made the move on the kid.
Speaking of egos, the second I get get one, it's like clockwork that I either get humbled or in trouble. It would be the latter this time. Becca is still out of commission with her back (and I know it's killing her to not being able to run). She was on photo detail again for this race. I didn't see her once the entire race and according to her, as she went to get action pictures of me, I started dodging in and around people making it impossible to get shots of me. I'd accuse her of fibbing and that she really spent the race inside the heated car, but not only did she manage to get action shots of some of our friends, but those friends also saw her and were waving and yelling at her! No escape from this ONE either, guess I'll take my verbal beating, and add it to the other ones.
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