Picking up from yesterday –
So, I took my photos to tweet. Another person took some individual shots of me. Then he put a picture on my phone of him and his buddy. I told him I’d tweet it to him. He was excited, but said he didn’t really use twitter. He told me his handle was @LarryRich, but when I went to tweet him I found out that handle didn’t exist. Come on people, learn your twitter handles, ’cause twitter’s the greatest thing in the world. (Sorry if I sound slightly harsh on this guy, ’cause he was really nice.)
After I had some pictures of me in the Wendy Davis garb, I went back over to my apartment to modify my costume for the actual running of the race. I put on pants. (Again, we’ll get to why later… I’m realizing I probably should’ve started with the costume post, but it’s too late now, people!) I took off the pearl necklace so it wasn’t jingle-jangling. I put my hair in pigtails, and grabbed a hat (a special “I Stand With Wendy Davis” hat that I got just for this).
Then I made sure Joy was up. (I don’t know if you remember Joy from last year’s Rock ‘n’ Roll San Diego. But now we’re buds and she came to stay with me as every person who ever does this race should do.)
We went down after the race had already started. Even still, there was plenty of time to wait in the farther back corral I was in.
The one thing I really dislike about this race is that the proceeds go to ASPCA. Oh boy. Here we go with the whole not liking animals thing where I’m sure I lose some of you. But when the proceeds are going to an animal charity, we get all these animal lovers and tons of people wait by the start with dogs – big dogs! The number of people who wait with dogs seems to go way up for an ASPCA race. Blegh.
I just stayed to the middle and hoped for the best. I didn’t die from any creatures. So, point 1 me.
The weather was perfect! It was sort of overcast and for once wasn’t hot in Los Angeles. I couldn’t believe it!
I wished I were still hanging with my fun lawyer buds from last year, but I have no idea if they ran the again.
I basically kept my headphones on and sort of kept to myself running some, walking some. But during the walking parts I tried to keep a pretty good pace. I’ve been working out a lot lately. So, I want to actually start pushing a bit as opposed to flittering around the courses for fun. (That can be fun too. But it’s time to at least begin to focus on improvement.)
And I’ll finish up here tomorrow.