New Shoes

Today dad took me to get new running shoes. They look exactly like his, well, maybe not exactly like his. Mine are white not black, and they do not have as much orange. They do however have the same sparkly laces. We tried about eight pairs on before I tried on these.  One pair that I tried on are the exact same ones as Jessica's.  They were to tight in the toes. We traded shoe for shoe, each with a problem.  My heel slips, I can feel the stitches that held the Nike, Brooks, and Mizuno symbol, or the one problem that happened too many times, the rubbing of my ankles.  I love the shoes that I picked and want the same pair when these are too small.

Evening run

We have been running every night. Last night we met one of my coworkers for our evening run at Safeway in Anacortes and ran the Tommy Thompson trail. Nick, the guy on the left, is the champion water rep at the refinery. Keep running nick!

On our run, we passed a brand new boat, fresh off the racks. I wonder what new boat smell smells like? It was something to see!

Kwina Mile

This past Tuesday we took part in the Kwina Mile (pronounced qui-nuh).  It is a race put on every year by the Lummi Indians.  It is a quirky race for several reasons, the only distance they have is the mile, it always takes place on a Tuesday, and it is always at noon.  People take off from work to participate and the kids get out of school and are bused in for the event.  There were runners, walkers and skate boarders.  They ran in running clothes, shorts, or jeans, one even in a tutu.  Some wore running shoes others wore Vibrams, vans, or big clunky "skating shoes" (that is what the kids call them, the kind skate boarders like to wear).  The Lummi firemen ran the mile dressed in full gear (masks and all), one even carried one of those heavy hoses.  I was told they usually have 300 to 400 participants.

They provided a sack lunch and gave all participants shirts.  Your choice of short or long sleeved and either white or orange.  Best of all, the race this year was free, shirts, food and all. 

Joel, G-ma, and I promised Noah a dollar if he beat Ryan.  Ryan purposely let him win so he would get the three dollars.  Next time there will be some stipulations about getting the money.  Jess came in second female by about a second.  Ryan and Noah came in under 8 minutes.  I don't know Chad's time and mine was 9:24.  Joel said if I ran 9:12ish that he would get me a hoody from the college he is coaching at.  I think 9:24 is 12ish.  He disagrees.  I think I should get it anyway since the first half of the race was all up hill and there wasn't much of a down hill on the back side of the mile.  Cody didn't run.  She was home dealing with a migraine.

It was a fun race and one we will gladly do next year. 



That's a Sasquatch on the back of the shirt (in case you didn't know).