delete

Posted: November 14, 2010 by oboros in eq2

I made a pretty Fae character in EQII a month or so ago. I played her until I realised her wings were like Killian’s. So I deleted her today.  Then after I confirmed deletion I remembered she had quite a bit of $$ on her. Oops.

starve a cold

Posted: November 5, 2010 by oboros in life

I haven’t been this sick in over 10 years. I went to the doctor today and was told it’s just a cold and to tough it out. She gave me meds anyway. Going on 7 days straight. meh

remembering my pets

Posted: May 27, 2010 by oboros in death, life, pets

While detailing an e-mail to my pet sitter for a future babysit date it occurred to me that I’ve known her so long / have used her services that… all my original pets she used to watch are no longer with us. I do have their Urns in a place of honor.

When she first started babysitting them, she took a little portrait of each. Here they are behind the cut. Rest in Peace, my lovelies.

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Tiger mountain

Posted: May 25, 2010 by oboros in fivefingers, running, trail, vff

My KSOs are too big. WAY too big but I’ve loved them the entire year I’ve been running in them anyway.

The major disadvantage is when I”m running in wet/muddy conditions. Then the feet start to slip around on the inside a lot. Sunday run was fun regardless!

Aprox 1,600 feet up Tiger Mtn looking down

Elevation gain and loss – 2,000 feet

It started with a nice VFF run around the neighborhood with a combo of sidewalk, road, and trail. I then moved up into my normal trail where I live. It so happens that there was a 12 hr race in progress! 

I ran into a friend who was running the 12 hr and decided she was on her last lap for the day (lap = 5 miles)… and lo-an-belold – she was barefoot!

She left her shoes and Vibrams in her car and committed to the last loop of 5 trail miles barefoot. So I joined her in solidarity by taking off my KSOs and finishing up the loop with her.

Lots of little rocks, great pine, soft dirt, mud with roots, big stepping stones. It was all great times. (OK those little rocks kind of bite big time).

Nice to visit with my friend and run BF together on the trial – LOTs of comments from the other runners. None negative. Maybe because my friend is a well-known ultra runner & chi-running instructor in the community!

Once we got to the end I ran home barefoot up the street.

No blood on my feet so I call it a success!

Best BF pace: 08:31. Total miles = 4.11 total time = 1hr ish 

oh yes I had already run 6 miles in the Vibrams before running BF with my friend.

Happy VFF Anniversary!

Posted: May 10, 2010 by oboros in life



vffaversary nubs

Originally uploaded by oboros

KSOs= blue camo
Sprint = green

Purchased 5/10/09: KSOs: 416 miles
Purchased 11/20/09: Sprints: 143 miles

The blue KSO nubs are worn down pretty good. I attribute this to the fact I got them a too big and I landed too much on my toes at the start of my transition.

new schedule

Posted: April 26, 2010 by oboros in life, work

Mon-Friday 8am – 5pm. Back to normal working hours. Exciting. I do admit I’m going to miss my mid-morning adventure-runs before 12pm.

signs of grey

Posted: April 20, 2010 by oboros in hair, life, mom

I always thought my Mother’s grey hair was so pretty in all it’s variations. I have colored my hair off and on over the last 20 or so years. I haven’t had any color done to if for two years and now that I see more grey in it – the coloring is going to stop. I hope my grey hair turns out as beautiful as my Mom’s was.

My husband was a bit over-excited when he pointed out my first noticeable grey hair last summer. It was a pretty fun reaction. He grabbed my head and was all “I see a grey hair!” YANK! Thanks babe, that kinda hurt.

Today:

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Three years as a new Non-Smoker

Posted: April 13, 2010 by oboros in health, mental, smoking

Today I’m celebrating 3 years since I returned to Non-smoker status:  It’s been 156 weeks, 4 days. The number of cigarettes I have NOT smoked since then is around 14,245 and the money saved is approximately $4,629.63.

Quitmeter.com rocks

Seahawks 12k Run

Posted: April 11, 2010 by oboros in race, running, vff

As soon as I have official results and hopefully pictures I’ll post about it. For now – here’s the run – holy crap best time for me EVER in my VFFs!! Make that best time for me ever Period!

Average speed was 6.7mph! :| woah! Way to go 40-yr-old me!

Time: 01:06:20
Distance: 7.41 mi

Avg Speed: 6.7 mph
Max Speed: 9.1 mph

Avg Pace: 08:57 min/mi
Best Pace: 06:36 min/mi

Updated: Found some real results!

My Stats:
overall place:  366 out of 883
division place:  9 out of 64   <—- In the top 10 of my division!
gender place (F):  112 out of 471
time:  1:06:17  (that’s 7.40 miles in 1hr 06 min) !!!
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Total Stats:
Number of Finishers: 883
Number of Females: 471
Number of Males: 412
Average Time: 1:09:49 

Full results here: http://www.onlineraceresults.com/event/view_event.php?event_id=4700

take the long way home

Posted: April 9, 2010 by oboros in fivefingers, health, mental, running, trail, vff, zombies
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My husband and I work in the same area. Yesterday was a day off for me and I planned my run as a “run home from work” event. Woke up to crazy snow-covered ground but I put the FiveFingers on anyway,  rode into work with the spouse and proceeded to make my way back home. 

The run was fantastic. Combo of street, sidewalk, paved trail, against the daily-grind-commute traffic and after making it 7.8 miles I have THIS to conquer! 

321 Elevation gain
see the powerline in the distance? That’s where I’m headed.

Running up that area I encountered large areas of water & mud that I couldn’t go around. 

So of course my VFFs got nice & muddy. Check out the Flickr! photos on the right if you’re interested. 

Overall elevation gain =  588 

sometimes I just want to scream

Posted: March 31, 2010 by oboros in life

but I never do. I think I got over that phase during my last decade.

get me to the church on time‏

Posted: March 24, 2010 by oboros in mom, trail, vff

Yesterday I went out for (what supposed to be) a short run before work. With my new job I don’t start until 12pm so I can be lazy about getting out later in the morning.
 
I ran around the neighborhood and veered off onto a trail – which I then took an obvious detour to a really NON-trail. Once I figured I was veering into “I’m going to be lost” territory I couldn’t turn around because a HUGE dog was chasing me and doing his duty of keeping me off his master’s property.
 
So I continued on this non-trail path and ended up in a marsh. I mucked through the mud and bog, crawled over a beaver dam and eventually made it to a stream to wash off my feet/VFFs/legs and continue on. (side note – that was SO MUCH FUN!)
 
With my trusty GPS watch tracking my movements, I knew I was over 3.25 miles away from home. I had no idea where the dirt road would take me but I took the left fork anyway. 

The FIRST building I came upon out of the clearing?   

lol

This is an LDS church-my parents religion

With a “Thanks Mom!” I got my bearings and continued running home.

Figures Mom would direct me out of a bog and drop me off on the church doorstep, eh? She’s been trying to get me back to church for over 20 years and just because she’s passed doesn’t mean she’ll stop now!

22.5km (14mi) Saturday Run!

Posted: March 21, 2010 by oboros in fivefingers, friends, life, running, vff


Half way!

Originally uploaded by oboros

Enjoyed a nice long Saturday run with a group of ladies celebrating a friend’s birthday together. She was “Running 45K for 45th Birthday”

I only ran the ‘half=22.5km’ (ONLY half? who am I kidding that’s 14 miles!) with a few other ladies. It was quite fun!

I ran in my VFF Sprints. This is the longest distance I’ve run since finishing the LV RnR Marathon Dec ’09. My left foot pad wasn’t happy at the end. However, in December it was the right. I think it’s the muscle still building up.

I went from 7-10 miles a week for the last three months to 25. Oops! My calves are a little sore but life is good!

Two months and a day

Posted: March 18, 2010 by oboros in death, mom

since my Mother passed away. I miss you mom.

I really should go running.