running: the dawn

If I lived on Sesame Street, today would have been brought to me by the letter “running.”  I woke up fully aware that today was the 114th Boston Marathon.  I worried about being able to watch it unfold.  I knew that I wouldn’t be satisfied with seeing highlights or just the leader board updates, I wanted to see the action.  After some searching online I figured it out and had the live broadcast streaming to my Mac.

And what a race it was!  The women were so exciting with the winner breaking free from the pack at mile 11!?!  Unheard of.  Then, the 2nd place going from almost 2 minutes back at mile 24 to finish only 4 seconds behind the leader!  It was so fun to watch.  Then, my dear Ryan Hall….didn’t win, but man, what an amazing race!  Even though he finished 4th, he’s still had the fastest American finish EVER!  Besides, the guy who won demolished the course record by almost two minutes which is un-real!

Yes, my students may have suffered a little today with me being somewhat distracted by the race, but in my defense, I’m sure that there are mathematical equations going into all the calculations of paces and the timing, right?

Then, when I got home from work and walked into my kitchen I almost fell down.  This is what I saw:

WHA?!?!?!  Seriously?  My birthday is not until the day after San Diego!  I had no hopes or expectations for getting an early present.  But, I am married to the most amazing and supportive husband in the world, so I should have known he was going to hook me up…

I’ve literally been thinking, wishing, hoping to have a Garmin GPS since 2005!  I could just never bring myself to a) spend the money and/or b) figure out which one I wanted to spend the money on.

It killed me that the instructions very specifically state that you have to let it charge for 3 hours before you should take it out for a run.  I “patiently” waited and read the instruction manual through.  Then I found on Garmin’s website some videos of how to set up different features, so I watched those.  Finally the watch face said “100%” charged!

Ready for my run!  Gigit is all charged and ready to rock.

All thanks to this Guy!  Mr. Dawn.  I know, he looks a little frightening with the facial hair extravaganza…but I love him!

So, as if Boston+Garmin weren’t enough running excitement for one day, I did my run and realized that those 5 miles was going to push me into the next level on my nike+ account:

It says “You achieved blue level status by syncing 622 miles”

Yes, my mini has pigtails.  And hair falling in her face.  Just like me. 

Best. Monday. Ever!