Weekend of Firsts

First time in Door County!

We had never been to Door County and although the season is just beginning there, we arrived to find many of the establishments open for business. We had dinner at the Wild Tomato Wood-Fired Pizza and Grille and breakfast at Julies Park Cafe and Motel both highly recommended.

First weekend of Camping for the Year!

Although we ate out a few times, we roughed it camping in Penninsula State Park. Well, it wasn't like we were really roughing it. We had electric to heat up our tea in the morning and were able to plug in the heated mattress pad for the back of the truck. The bathroom and shower facilities were very near to the campsite. I would probably say, these were the best accomodations we've ever had camping.

First attempt and completion of the Door County Half Marathon!

Our time wasn't the best, (Sugs and I ran together), but we finished and we weren't last. The best part was running accross the finish line at the end in under the goal of 3 hours, check out the results. Sue B. and Lynne S. from the bike team did the race too, in awesome finishing times (2:17 and 2:21). Here were my Ipod sensor results-I started it a while before our race started, but I still need to calibrate it. It's off in distance.

The worst part which still wasn't awful, was some of the pain during the run. Like I said on facebook, this is one of those times I had to say to myself " Suck it up, buttercup?<> and move through it. Although, I feel pretty much like pre race condition and hopefully, not adding further insult to the hip injury that I had 1 1/2 weeks before the race.

Would we do it again? It's May 1st, 2010. Put it on the schedule baby!

Here are some of the pics of us here and if we ever get our pics off of our cell phones we'll post some more.....Of course, what did we forget on the trip? The Camera.

Lapham Peak

Judi and I spent the day today Trail Running/Hiking. I'm definitely going to do more of this type of activity. Maybe I'll even try a WORS trail run this year.

Car Back, Shoes Gone!

It's been so long since I posted on this blog! Facebook has taken over most of my computer time. I probably don't even have visitors anymore, but here's what we did on our snowy Saturday night!

Most of you know, last Tuesday, my car was stolen from my work parking lot. Well, last night about 11:30 we got the call that it was found. They even got the guy who possibly stole it by tracing his snow footprints up to a house. Here's how the story goes:

It was interesting, there was a nearby armed robbery at a seafood store, and when the officer was investigating the crime by driving around the neighborhood looking for suspects, he asked a few guys on the street if they saw anyone running or looking suspicious in the past half hour or so. Well, while the officer was talking to these couple of guys who didn't see anything, he noticed that nearby there was a running car with no one in it. After looking in the window he found that the ignition was punched out on it, so he ran the plates, and WALLAH, it was a stolen car, MY CAR! So, since it was snowing, there were footprints from the drivers side of the car up to this house on the same side of the street. The officers approached the people in the house and ended up taking four into custody for theft and possible armed robbery.
We of course, went to the scene to avoid my car being impounded(which I heard was very expensive) by the police. Just as we were getting ready to leave, the thing ran out of gas, so here we are in the middle of a crime ridden neighborhood, (with the cop still there, thankfully) running to the gas station,(accross from where the armed robbery was) buying a gas can, filling it up with gas and then taking it back to the car....Only to then have the thing not start again because after several attempts to start it with the screwdriver the battery died(maybe there is something more serious wrong)... Now what?

The cop gave us a number of a tow truck person and he had to go, we told him that we were okay, so he left. Now we're sitting in the truck, behind my car, without the cop, waiting for the tow truck. This made me nervous, but of course Rob was calm and collected, aside from the fact that he was tired, wet, cold and disgusted.

Well, within 5 minutes or so, the tow truck pulled up. One hundred dollars later, we have my car back, looks physically undamaged from the outside, but has interior damage. My smiley face from my rear view mirror is gone :( my nike plus running shoes an iPod sensor are gone, some miscellaneous papers are gone, but it's back and my road(spin class) shoes are back too.

We'll just have to figure out on Monday what the next step will be. At least I have my little red rental to cover me until my car is back to normal.

A Tough Climb on a Tandem

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Jack and Jill have just climbed Le Alp de Huez, one of the steepest peaks in the Alps on their tandem.

"Phew, that was a tough climb" said Jack, leaning over, breathing hard. "That climb was so hard, and we were going so slow, I thought we were never going to make it."

"Yeah, good thing I kept the brakes on," said Jill, "or we'd have slid all the way back down!"


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