BOO!

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, and I have plenty of excuses to dress up this weekend. First up is a Halloween 5k that I am doing tomorrow with my friend and super runner Julie. Initially we were both going to dress up as female comic book characters because we thought it would be funny to run with capes flying behind us. It was a novel idea, but all of the costumes were cheap/skimpy/expensive. So now we are both going to be dressed up as green M&M's.

Awesome.

Since I only run once a week (if that) I have zero running clothes. And it's going to be cold tomorrow. I think temps are supposed to top off at 50 degrees and we will are running at 9 a.m. I guess it will be incentive to go fast, right?

When I was little I used to have asthma, and it would always flare up when I was running around the playground in the winter time. Since then, I've pretty much outgrown it, and the only time I ever even feel a hint of it is when I'm racing cyclocross in really cold temps. The only reason why I'm even mentioning this at all, is because I'll be running tomorrow in the cold. So if you live in the Grand Rapids area and see a green M&M gasping for air on the side of the road, you will know that it's me.

I'm sure I will be fine :-)

I'm just along for the ride for this race. Julie is in charge of pacing and I'm just going to try and stay with her. The best part will be crossing the finish line because then we are going out for breakfast, which incidentally is my favorite meal of the day.

(Late edit: I just read the above paragraph and had to roll my eyes at myself! Seriously...what am I talking about? Pacing and trying to keep up with Julie? I'm acting like I'm doing a marathon tomorrow)

My camera is about 95% dead now, but I'm still going to bring it along and try to get a few more pictures before I toss the thing. This one was a Pentax , and was supposed to be shock/waterproof/awesome. Somehow I managed to break it. I guess it's time to start looking for a new one, preferably with better picture quality!

Tomorrow night we are heading to a halloween party somewhere (I will not be going as a green M&M) and then the following day is the kisscross race. I've been crossing my fingers for muddy conditions for the last couple of cross races, but now I'm uncrossing them. I really, really don't want it to rain, because I'm pretty sure my halloween make-up is not water resistant!

Happy (almost) Halloween everybody! Now go eat some candy corn :-)