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December 26, 2004

Christmas celebration #2

It snowed in Houston on Christmas Eve! In Galveston they had several inches of snow on the beach. Pretty cool. We stayed nice and toasty inside, aside from a feeble attempt at a track workout on my part - after a few 400s by myself into a stiff headwind in one direction and in a pair of tights that insisted on creeping down to near-knee level I decided I wasn't doing myself any good. So I went back to the in-laws' and had a hot cuppa tea and hung out with family instead. And ate a *lot* of cookies.

This morning Andy and I ran with his sister and brother-in-law and our San Antonio friend Brian, starting in Memorial Park. I actually saw a few Austinites there who must've been visiting family too. It was quite a scene down there - this morning was three weeks out from the Houston marathon, so there were a *lot* of folks doing their last long run. Their taper starts now! I'm almost a little jealous, except that I feel like I've got so much work to do!

This morning was a nice kick-off for my favorite time of the running year: the Houston marathon followed by my sister- and brother-in-law's race in Bulverde followed by the start of my taper, the 3M Half Marathon and then ... Freescale! Seven weeks. Keep your fingers crossed for me - that training goes better than it has the past few weeks and that my work doesn't spin out of control ...

Posted by jenandmats at December 26, 2004 8:57 PM

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Friday night while I was driving to Houston through falling snow and looking at it piled up on the ground at my parents' house I was reminded that anything's possible. I'm usually pretty dense about things like that but I think there's a lesson in there somewhere... Cheers!

Posted by: Alex at December 27, 2004 2:46 PM

Hi - I will keep my races crossed for you. It sounds like you have some fun races coming up. I hope your work does not get to crazy so you can keep up with your training and not get too stressed. Crazy that it was snowing in Houston! Happy Holidays!

Posted by: Mary at December 27, 2004 3:06 PM