highlights of the weekend

sunday morning was the capitol 10K. the highlight of the weekend probably wasnt even running the race but moreso when christian asked me what the 10,000 stood for in capitol 10,000. i gave her the appropriate and well deserved 'youre a moron' remark and laughed at her for a while. she really is a smart girl and in her defense its not really common to refer to running races by the number of actual meters. i guess being from austin, im just used to it being called the "capitol 10,000" so it never sounded weird to me. and im sure if she had really thought about it she would have figured it out..but i definitely didnt allow her that time before making fun of her.

so more about the race...as you can see from the pic (i didnt take it) many people ran the race...i think about 14,000. the winner crossed the line after 32 minutes of running. yeah..thats averaging 5 minute miles! ck and i were right on his heels with a time of an hour an 7 minutes. ok maybe not right on his heels. i was happy with our time considering it was the only time in my life that ive run 6 miles. the race itself is kinda difficult bc it is VERY hilly...and we're talking the type where you get halfway up and think its the top and then it keeps going. but at least for every uphill, there's a downhill right? at the beginning of the race i told ck that we should start a tradition and run it every year till we die. by about mile 4 i was like, i never wanna run this again. but now in retrospect, a whole day later, ive come around and have decided that yes, i do want to inflict pain upon myself and run it in '07. so we'll see... we didn't don any costumes in case you were wondering. probably a wise decision with as humid as it was...wearing more clothes than necessary would have probably made me real crabby.

other happenings of the weekend...on saturday i got a hair cut. you cant really tell a difference bc i didnt really get any length cut off. i did however get it thinned which may be a new concept to some people. but for me, i have super thick hair which doubles as a sauna on my head in the summer so getting it thinned is basically like lifting a huge weight off my head. so yeah...when the lady was done, there was probably enough hair on the ground to make a puppy. but better to have it on the ground than on my head.

the last highlight of the weekend was christian and me kayaking. ive only been once before but enjoyed it then and thought it would be fun. and that it was. i think we spent half the time laughing outta control...mostly at how terrible we were at making our kayak go straight. we perfected the 360 move and are willing to share if youre interested. but overall, a pretty great time and something i highly recommend if youve never done it. more pictures of the weekend to come...