I was talking to Dave’s mom, Gail, this morning and she noted that the blog has been quiet lately…indeed, it has. I uploaded new pictures this morning. Just click on the picture above of us after the race this morning. It will take you to the April album.

We have both been very busy this past week… Dave has been getting to work at 4am and I’ve been burning the midnight oil on a few projects. But we’re having a great weekend reconnecting and unplugging from work a bit.

To kick off the weekend, we had a great race this morning! Mom joined us (as she always does!) for our adventure. We left at 5:45am to park, prep, pick up our timing chip, hit the potties one last time and line up with several thousand runners. I was amazed at how many stroller runners there were and how fast they ran. The last 10K I did with Sam we were the ONLY stroller entry. I felt like a celebrity – which made that run feel extra great. This one was a challenge for me, but Dave and I both did really well. Dave beat his goal time by 5min, and I came in just a few seconds after him, beating my PR by a minute. My splits were sub-9 minutes, which is really great for me over that distance pushing Sam. I have done a 5K workout (pushing Sam) and hit below 8 min/mile, but that was an extraordinary day when I felt great 🙂 Today I felt more tired than usual – I think I went out really fast, so that could be part of it. Despite my best efforts, it is tough to gauge how fast you’re going when there are so many people that you have to walk or slow jog across the starting line. Then I felt like I was playing a videogame, weaving our way through all those people, trying to find an open spot where I could hit my stride. It took a mile of weaving to get a spot, then I started passing people like crazy because I had lots of energy bottled up. It is a challenge to push a stroller in a big race. But I commend the organizers for allowing us committed runners with children to do it! Many races don’t allow strollers at all, and of the few that do, even fewer actually allow us to be a “category,” like gender. I am working on organizing a strollers-only fun run to demonstrate how a stroller-friendly race can be organized. One of the biggest triathlete coaches here on the island is really behind it, and that’s exciting! He organizes a lot of races and is looking forward to working on this idea. Probably early in ’08. My vision is to make it hilarious – you can push anything in the stroller…Christmas tree, chihuahua, chia pet – it doesn’t matter! I digress, though. We had a great run, came home and made pancakes, and now we’re packing up stuff to go to the beach for an Easter egg hunt with a couple friends and their children. We’re going to grill out there while the kids hunt for eggs.

Wishing you all a wonderful and Happy Easter!