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October 17, 2005
The Red Wings are waiting
Saturday, I did all my running at my girls' meet, again. They ran and won a city wide champtionship that had 38 teams in it. We were expecting the victory, but I was particularly pleased by 2 things. First, my girls scored only 34 points, breaking the lowest score record (guys or girls) for the meet by 23 points. Second, my top girl won the race, which is a big deal because of the best runners in the state runs for a team that is there. I feel pretty sure, she is amoungst the top 4 runners for the state meet, with no one who is out of range. My husband and I went for a hike on the local trails and then, we were going to go see a movie, but when looked up the times, Elizabethtown had just started and I did not feel like staying up late and watching the next showing. So instead we were really exciting and went to the gym and lifted weights. I was kind of in a bad mood about not doing something fun that day, since I had been gone at my kids meet all day, but I ended up enjoying it. I don't think I have ever been there when there was not a single other person in the weight room. Sunday, I ran 7 miles when I got home from work at 3 pm with my husband. The weather was nice for running and it was amusing, since I wore my GPS to measure the route we were running. I claimed the route was 6.9 miles (guessing off the time it took us to run it)and my husband tried to measure it on a computer program and got 7.25 miles. I am quite proud to annouce the route turned out to be 6.93! We had fun trying to figure out who was going to be right, it made counting the miles more interesting. Today, the best news had nothing to do with running. When I got into work, I had an email from my bosses' boss. It was a forward of an email that he had got that pretty much said the program I ran was the best this person had ever seen and that they particularly like me and my leadership! I was really excited to not only get that kind of feedback, but to have the person actually send it to the people above me, as well. As far as running goes, I ran 5 miles in the rain with the girls I coach. I need to get going, since my husband is waiting for me to go watch the Red Wings game at a local sports bar with him. Can't keep the Red Wings waiting...
Posted by Ann at October 17, 2005 6:56 PM
Comments
Congratulations both on your girls' victory and the praise you received at work...and your internal GPS being so accurate! It sounds like you work really hard, so I'm glad you're getting some recognition for it!
I had to laugh at your line about not having something fun to do on Saturday, because I definitely have my weekend days like that. I often used to coax my boyfriend to go to the movies with me or go out to dinner just so it wouldn't be an all-work weekend.
Posted by: Alison at October 18, 2005 8:12 AM
Congratulations on the success of your team! I'll be interested to see what happens the rest of the season!
Posted by: Caitlin at October 18, 2005 7:20 PM