I took this at work the other day. I am now in charge of a blog for the nature center and so I’ll be writing more about nature and taking more photos. It’s going to keep me busy but I think it’ll be a good thing. I’ll post the link on here when we decide to go live with it.
I’ll stop talking about it, but first I guess I ought to say that I did pretty well in the Asheville half marathon on Saturday. I ran it in 1:41:55 and placed 140 out of 1288 finishers. I’m glad I took it easy last week and had been staying on top of my training. It really helped. I was happy to have Sara and my mom with me at the finish line. Sara actually took this photo, which is a lot better than the official race photo of me. I enjoyed running with Scott for about half of the race, and I was constantly worried that he was about to pass me for the second half.
I had a great weekend overall, if you don’t count the redneck with a swastika tattoo across his back on the four wheeler with a rifle in his lap that decided to take a joyride on our property up in Balsam Grove. Yep.
Sara and I are headed up to North Carolina this weekend. I’m running in the Asheville half marathon tomorrow morning at 7:30, and we’ll stay up in Balsam Grove and spend some time with my parents. I’m really excited for the race and ready to see the mountains again.
Yet staying in town. We’ve got a busy weekend ahead of us, but thankfully Sara and I have Monday off of work.
I got some great gifts for my birthday. I think it’s pretty obvious as to what I’ve been up to lately. I got some other great gifts, including the lens that I used to take this photo (which isn’t doing it justice, but a few previous macro shots posted on here started to) that my mom gave me.
I’m pretty lucky.
This isn’t about the idiotic snuff book series about the collective christian dream about armageddon, so don’t get your hopes up.
It looks like a cricket left something behind on my bell pepper plant. I guess I’ve never seen this sorta thing, and it’s pretty interesting that it was left upside down.
Anyhow, work’s going well for me and Sara started her new job this week.
It’s my birthday this coming Tuesday. This weekend I am planning on going to Tasty China,an authentic Sichuan Chinese restaurant here in Marietta. I’ve seen it referred to as the best Chinese restaurant in the Atlanta area, so hopefully that’s close to being true. I’m pretty excited to try something authentic and hot.
It’s not here yet, but Fall is definitely on the way. It’s been in the high sixties in the mornings this week, and I’ve really enjoyed running in those temperatures. I really hope we have a long fall this year. Last year’s seemed so short.
I found this leaf today, and though it might look like I’ve gone a little crazy with adjusting the colors, I really haven’t. It’s surprisingly bright.
I’ve been running a good bit lately, and I’ve really been enjoying it. While there is a huge difference between my life and job in Greenville, and I am much happier now, I still need to burn off some frustrations. I’m also starting to realize how much of an effect that playing soccer all through my formative years has had on me. I don’t play anymore, but I can still compete and be athletic with running. It’s so weird to not have soccer in my life. I had a few years when I really didn’t mind not playing, but now it’s like every other day that I wish I were playing. I miss so much of soccer, and not just the matches (to be honest, I barely remember any of them anyhow thanks to my godawful memory), but for so many aspects. But running has really filled the gap that competitive soccer hasn’t.
Anyhow, I’ve been training for a marathon, and I’ve just recently signed up for the Asheville half marathon on September 18 thanks to some help from Scott. I know I’m ready for it at this point, but I really want to beat my time from the Atlanta half marathon in 2007. It’s funny to think that I ran that along with Sara Nichols and Matt Schultz. I haven’t seen them in years, and it’s really underlining the fact that time really seems to be speeding up.
I’m not old and don’t think that I’m close to being old. But I do feel like things are slightly speeding by me more and more. I certainly don’t feel like I’m going to be 28 in a week.
Anyhow, I ran ten miles on Sunday. I’ve done more previously, and in some odd circumstances (such as with a broken hand and near blackout drunk on Halloween one year), but this felt a lot better than any previous long run. I wasn’t struggling (or dry heaving) and I felt strong at the finish, like I could have gone a lot farther.
Oh, so the photo. I found this about to fall down a drain while on one of my early morning runs.
School started here last week. Summer’s on it’s way out.
I have too much going on. Thankfully I’m taking a long weekend and going to the beach.
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