race report- K9-3K

this past sat in downtown raleigh about a billion dogs and their owners took to the streets for the annual SPCA K9-3K. it was chaos and yes, you had to be very careful where you stepped.

i should have taken more pictures. i should have taken pictures period. there were dogs there that you would not beleive were actually real. the little tea cup ones shivering in the sunlight, to the "is that a horse" one with the taped up achilles, to the snufalupagus (sound it out folks) look a like. and yes, most dogs do look like their owners.. or vice versa....

a race it was not. there was stopping and starting and sniffing and untangling.. and that was even before the gun went off.

we covered 1.7 miles in a fiery 37 minutes.

each of us had a little different hi-lite of the day:

madison - eating a recently forgotten dollop of ice cream off the asfault.
me- not having to feel pain or suffering with a mile to go.
bobby - realizing that no, we dont have the worst behaved dogs in NC.
smokey- finding the greenest patch of grass in a very nice downtown neighborhood and right infront of the owners who were perched out on their stoop, dropping a very healthy sized dinger.. and then burping and trotting off to join the masses.

and heres something i had never encountered.. i was yelling "madison, lets go" and this little girl says "thats my name". ummm OK. what do you say to that? its all very awkward.

great start to a great weekend, which by the way is now long forgotten. oh work. why must you ruin a good thing.

i have also by the way made a concerted effort to get to a somewhat respectable race weight. but plans have been foiled by the likes of home made baked goods. DRAT.



one other notable from the weekend. got in a great swim at jordan lake sunday. tweeked the shoulder a little bit - so not so good there - and well have washed my hair twice since then and i still think i have a little extra "body" courtesy of the lake. nice.