Looking at the positive side of injury, aging athlete perspective ... and boob results!

One really great thing about having had a very difficult and hurting last several weeks... see the monkey-wrenches and the piss water if you missed all the drama... is ...

NO BURNOUT!!!!

I have been not running a whole heck of a lot because of Murphy's Law in action over here (I have been told that Mercury is in retrograde). I have been cycling and doing a butt-load of P90X stuff... plyo, core and stretching... so I feel strong and fit. I have been running just enough to know that I can do this thing... this Hood to Coast Relay.

If you've seen the movie... I will not be like the Thunder and Laika-ning dudes whose training mantra was "no training! more beer! more pizza!" :P Nor, however, will I be like the exceptionally speedy and chronologically-mature Dead Jocks dudes (who, of course, in all their crass juvenility, were my personal favorites... and you know I want to meet them!). And we're not even mentioning the Bowerman Elite Squad... ooops, mentioned... who don't get to be called 'dudes' because they are not from this planet.  However, there will be some areas in which I will be like ALL three of those teams. Yes, we ALL share a few things...

I will run.

I will mostly likely meet the projections for time, though it won't be easy... but it isn't supposed to be.

And most importantly...

I WILL HAVE FUN!!!!

Several of the fun, fabulous and talented women on the two Nuun Hood to Coast teams have expressed concern over their abilities, not training enough, getting hung up on the "performance" angle. I know that part of it is pre-race jitters. And I know that we are a group of remarkably driven women. But I am concerned, too. I am concerned that their concerns about team "performance" and individual "performance" will overshadow the critical piece of being a part of the Nuun teams...

FUN.

Plain and simple.

We were not chosen for our speed. Well, maybe some of us were. We were chosen for our creative applications. I keep coming back to this. I used to be an elite athlete. Doing stuff like this for fun is foreign to me... or was until less than a year ago when I was finally able to start exercising again post-injury. Eight years of pain and no working out gives you AMAZING perspective. I definitely fall into the trap of my old mentality. A quick bitch-slap rips me right back into reality...

I am a 9-minute miler... on a good day.

The reality is that neither Nuun team will be on a podium for speed. There... I said it. Whew... isn't that a relief? What we can do is this... our best. And we can have fun. I read all your blogs, Nuun ladies... there is incredible potential for us to be the envy of the entire event... because we are the most fun!

My goal for this race is to survive, feel good about how I contributed, meet some awesome people and have so much fun with my team that everyone around us is saying...

Mannn...I wish I was on THAT team!


So let's do it, ladies...

Let's show Oregon who knows how to give it what they've got on race day and have more fun with it than anyone!


That we can do :)

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Now on to what you're really here for... who cares about XL's b.s. diatribe on HTC? I know, I know...

boobs

The official results for Match the Rack are in Caroline's comment. That woman knows her boobs... and the boobs of others apparently ;-) Caroline, I still don't know what prize to give you... as soon as I figure out a boob-related prize, I will let you know. I must have your address because you seem to win all of my giveaways :P

Thanks to everyone who played... especially Danny who was the only guy dumb brave enough to play! He got 3 correct... as did several contestants. And many thanks to all for making Boobs I Follow my second most popular post ever in less than 24 hours!