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Wind and Waves

On Saturday, Jes and I drove to Richmond to meet up with a lady that Jes has gone sailing with in the past.  She owns a 36-foot sailboat and invites people to crew for her.  Jes has gone out before and asked if I could come along too some day.  Well, this was the weekend and it happened to be extra windy and the bay was on a high surf advisory outside of the Golden Gate Bridge.  Fortunately for us, we stayed in the bay but it was still really choppy and windy.  We sailed around Angel Island past Sausalito, past the GG Bridge and the city skyline, and back up past Treasure Island.  I had a great time and felt pretty good for most of the trip.

It was all good until it was time to pee below deck.  The sailboat had a toilet so I went down to check it out.  As the lady was showing me how to flush the toilet, I had a sudden rush of puke come up, and I ended up yacking in the toilet.  Once I did that, I felt great!  And I still had to pee.  So, the trip was over.  They brought down the sails and turned on the motor for a quick ride back to the harbor.  Jesse thinks I got sick from going below deck.  Even he has a tendency to get disoriented down there.  Oh well.  A girl had to pee after 3 hours on the water.

It’s starting to hurt.

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I’m at the 10-mile mark of my Half Marathon training and this one was painful. I added a few hills and I got a twinge of pain in my right achilles and soleus muscle at about the 6-mile mark. Unfortunately, once you’re out there, the only way home is to run home or call the husband. I decided to run home and finished with a slower time (1:44) and had to give the old leg a good icing and Motrin. Luckily I’m up the next day without pain and just a little tightness. Only 3 more weeks until the Giants Race!

Practice Run

This morning I ran 9 miles and included one of the hilly parts of the Giants Race that’s coming up in mid-June.  Unfortunately I miscalculated the rest of the route and ended up 3 miles short of 9 miles.  So, I had to run past my house (so painful!) and go another 3 miles before heading home for breakfast.  Click on the image to see a larger version of the route.

Crazy Race Day

On Saturday, it looked like it was going to be an awesome day on the water.  Jes crewed for a captain in an another ocean race and it turned out to be a wild and crazy ride.  While in mid-race, there were 8-foot swells and it caused the boom of their sailboat to break and the boat tipped onto its side with Jes pinned up against the rail and completely in the water.  He had a quick near-death experience but luckily he was on the inner side of the boat and was able to scramble towards the high side.  He certainly got a big scare with a side of adrenaline rush.  To make matters worse, the rudder also broke and had to take a 4-hour trip back to the harbor with a puny motor and super waves that looked like a wall of water that would then sploosh onto the bow of the sailboat.  Jes has some pretty strong sea legs but these swells made him oh so sick.

When I got home from my tournament that evening, I found a trail of wet clothes and shoes leading to the bathroom and Jes fast asleep in bed.  He was exhausted.  When I asked him if he was done with ocean racing, he just shrugged it off and was excited for the next one.  *sigh*

Final Four!

Once again, we raised funds for the BORP Roll n Shoot Tourney and played some wheelchair basketball on Saturday.  Last year we got beat up and only scored seven times out of all 4 games.  Of course we came in dead last but had a lot of fun.  This year we didn’t actually get to practice as much as last year so I was bit worried when we arrived at the court.

Luckily we came a little more prepared with our shirts in the colors of the kids on the Children’s logo.  We even got hooked up with tattoos and window clings that we taped to our backs with medical tape.  We were a rag-tag bunch, a little ghetto, but oh so awesome.

We played our first game and we won!  Then in the second game we won again!  In our third game, I scored TWICE!, and we won after an overtime shoot-out. Check out this video clip:

In our fourth game, we won and swept our pool.  That took us to the Final Four and we played the other pool’s second-best team and got beat by only one point!!

Our coach MacKenzie was such a good sport with our ADD tendencies and rowdiness.  We raised money for a wonderful organization and had a fun-filled day playing w/c bball.  Who knows…maybe we’ll get to the finals next year?!

Here are photos from the tournament.

Halfway There

This morning I completed my 6-mile Long Run.  It was sunny and breezy, which made for a pretty pleasant run. Take a look at the wildflowers along the Marina!

I ran from the Willie Mays statue at King and 3rd all the way down to Crissy Field, which is just half a mile from the Golden Gate Bridge.  Here’s a photo of me at the end of my run.

With 14 weeks left of training, I should be on track, if not ahead of schedule for the SF Half Marathon.  I just gotta cross my fingers that I don’t injury myself until then.