FitFool

This past weekend I scanned through over 28,000 pictures in the Lost-n-Found section to see if I could find any more pictures of myself from the marathon (my race report in a previous post). I did pick up one more of myself and got to play detective and matched up about 3 dozen other unidentified runners (based on clues like partial bib #s, names on shirts, and country flags) and sent those in to Brightroom. Even if they don't buy the pictures, I figure they'll at least look at them and I got a little thrill every time I matched someone up to a bib #. Exciting to scan through those pictures. Lots of great handcycle pictures (their bib #s got blocked by the handcycle cranks) and I got to see a bunch of the costumed runners.

Some highlights:
* One of the Achilles Team members (with TWO prosthetic legs)
* save-the-rhino
* the Blues Brothers
* Spiderman
* Superman
* a wizard
* Handcycles headed uphill
* in full firemen gear
* Emotional displays: Exultant | overwhelmed | mission accomplished | content, with kids | fighting on | disappointed
* And if you're into ogling physiques, the warm day exposed a lot of skin (here and here and here).

Here's the link to the lost-and-found gallery of pictures: (all pictures in this post came from Brightroom)
http://www.brightroom.com/lost_photos.asp?EVENTID=7803

Oh and some of you run with the Reservoir Dogs, right? Do you know this person?
Photo ID# 7803-5980-022

And another question...the bridge that the firemen are on...which one is that? I didn't like it and neither did my feet. Oww.

Awesome...got myself a new PR (Personal Record). Hot night. I mostly just wanted the almost free shoes that were being included with the $40 race entry fee. Intended to take things easy but not embarrass myself and use this as a good hard tempo workout. But then I decided to cling to the runners near me and tried to keep up with them so I went out too fast at 8:10 for the first mile and kept slowing down. Still, it was enough to set a new record for me. Flat, fast course on wide trails cutting through the forest and running along a small stream.
( pictures from the race )