over it

I've successfully made it through half of the month of blogging every day.  I'm over the hump.  I am also very tired. I left the house this morning at 6:27.  I made it back home tonight at 9:40.  I spent 4 1/2 hours at work, an hour for lunch with Mr. Bump, 4 1/2 hours working in the afternoon, then went to my hair stylist after going to the post office.  After two hours with the Best Stylist in the Universe, I drove over to pick up a friend, and then we drove over to the hospital and spent an hour with a friend who's in the ICU. We sat in the car and chatted for a bit, and then I got home at 9:40. Then I ate cereal and cheese and crackers for dinner.

I thought I'd throw up a couple of pictures of my new hair and call it good for a blog post. Days like today don't make blogging every day easy.  I'm just really exhausted.

Then I spent 30 minutes posing for Mr. Bump because there is no such thing as a "quick photo of my new hair" apparently.  Anyway, enjoy. It's getting long. I'm glad to get some color back in it.

photo booth fun

 Some more shots from the wedding the other night.  These are fun. I actually have some other things to talk about which will happen soon.  But man I love this dress. Here's another opportunity to gaze upon it's loveliness.

I wasn't really choking her, I promise.

 

See? I love my mama

2:20:17 *PR!

Finally got that PR in the half marathon, even if it was only a 11 second PR--I'll take it! Finished up the day with another 8 on top of the half, for a final long run of 21 miles before tapering. Let the taper begin! I've been so stressed about getting back into training after the foot pain and back pain that the taper portion of this training cycle snuck up on me.  Two weeks from tomorrow Mr. Bump and I (and my sweet parents) head out to Portland. Nineteen days and counting until I PR in PDX.

The rockstar next to me was Jean, who ran her first half on Sunday! She rocked it for 2:39:20 finish. We ran step for step for the first eight miles or so, before we parted ways at an aid station. But I saw her heading for the finish line as I headed out for my extra eight. So proud of her!

The race (Crossroads Half Marathon) was small but had great support (fabulous photographers!), particularly the free GUs and the snowcones at the finish line. Race directors take note--snowcones at the finish are the Bomb!

Official chip time: 2:20:28

My badass self

Thanks to fotojack.com

More photos by Mr. Bump: 

We'll just ignore the fact that last night's run was horrible: uphill, headwind, leg hurting, and accidentally half a mile short.  Sigh.  Back to reality.

this totally counts as a blog post

Even though it's mostly just a link or two or three. I'll be pulling images from flickr as I talk more about our trip in the coming posts, but here they are (both mine and Mr. Bump's) in their non-narrated glory.

This particular photo was taken at Boulder's Beach on the Cape of Good Hope peninsula. You can't really see them, but there were penguins all around, hiding from the sun under the shade of scrubby sand shrubs and, appropriately enough, large boulders.

Here's some proof that they'd been around:

This was a special day--I'll tell you more later.

Oh, calm down and go look at Flickr. That should keep you busy for a nanosecond or two.