DNF

Wow such permanence and finality that has 'DNF'.....

Well you may have guessed the adventure race didn't go quite as planned. Hence the 'DNF'...
I am proud to say that unlike our sister team however, we did not end up trying to swim in the credit river..though I cannot much rub it in seeing as how I sunk in the swamp (approximately two feet) and almost lost my shoes twice...without ritch I would have had to do the race sans shoes....

Anyhow, we didnt' get lost too badly, though looking for checkpoint B was a challenge all in it's own category...Once there are pics I'll post some possibly until then there are pictures on the esar site, www.esar.ca .

Now I'm in need of another goal on the event front. And I have Ritch tryinig to convince me to join peel regional with him in the December class, all I have to say about that is holyy..do I ever have a lot of running to do!!!

I need a vacation...I was thinking about taking one, but where shall I go? Travelling alone sucks...this being single thing...ugh..! Oh well....what can you do...

Ostriching

It has become the norm it seems that each spring, my shoulder stiffens and I experience excruciating pain. Seems that my accident history has caught up with me. This time round I decided I would give chiropractic medicine a go...and can I just say that, my chiropractor is AWESOME!! It worries me a little that she was surprised that I'd never been referred to a chiropractor before, and that it seems my back, neck and spine are in a horrendous state of disrepair....though if it weren't in a bad state I would be even more concerned as such is the excuse for my shoulder. Anyway, I highly recommend chiropractors and massage therapy now, I am 75% better than I was, though I'm still quite anxious about the Adventure Race coming up, not sure how I'm going to paddle, pretty scary since I'm the experienced canoer...!

Turns out also, that I'm pretty good at navigating...who'd have thought!!..

Sooo...Sarah McLachlan was awesome, but then she always is:> the acc left something to be desired however and Sarah cannot play the amphitheatre soon enough..

On the Police application front...postponed...what can I say, my shoulder once again..
September now, at least it'll give me some time to break the news....Decided also that I may give the LSAT (Law School Admissions Test) a shot at the same time...so I'll do a course at the end of August and then write it October 1, two days after the RPAT (RCMP Police Aptitude Testing).

Anyway I think that's a sufficient update don't you? I've avoided all my bad news, maybe I'll share some of that next time, or maybe I never will, denial is a familial trait afterall....Karen the Ostrich...

and the award goes to!

So here we are 5 months after the Auxiliary Graduation and the tie for most improved fitness has been broken. Moe conceded...I wish she didn't but she didn't think it was fair to make me wait while she tries to reign in her blood pressure. Very motivational considering my training schedule right now; pretty much 7 days per week...ugh. Speaking of which I ran today for 28 minutes without a water break most of which at race pace..pretty good for this little 10 and 1'er:) Not bad not bad if I do say so myself (and I do!) And I might have convinced Scott to take up running again..but we'll see if Andee can keep him motivated ;)

Even more impressive is that I managed to do this after a full dinner at Squish Chalet.

RPAT is 2.5 weeks away....how am i going to break this to my dad :(

Sarah McLachlan 12 days to go...ACC here we come! I said I wasn't going to count down anymore, but it's just a test, why am I worried?! (besides I'm more freaked out about the P.A.R.E. first because I suck at Fit tests and second, cause I've no idea when I'll need to do it later rather than sooner I hope after all the time I've been off training from being sick over the last 8 weeks) I do wonder though what I should study for this test...I'll have to go through the review stuff this weekend and see.

and...i don't even care that no ones reads my blog yet, if ever..that's just fine...I'll keep writing anyway.....so there!! (maybe reverse psychology will work?) :P