decoder ring set to stun.

I get these cryptic emails from Tabitha ever so often.  I pull out my Secret Decoder ring and try to figure out what she’s saying.  Today I get one with finishing times for a race.  I am pretty sure she’s saying, “step up the game, we need to do it in an hour.” because yesterday we ran the course and our time wasn’t pretty, but not bad for our second training run of the year so far.
I have looked at this race before and it’s kind of like the one I am running this month, but it’s put on by a company I don’t know anything about and I want to volunteer for a race before I run it to see if I like the company that is holding it.  I learned this lesson on New Years.
Anyway, I pull up the map.  PLEASE, can SOMEBODY please put together an updated Western States map? That one is tired and it’s not entirely correct.  The map makes it looks like there isn’t  a chance of getting lost.  Bullshit.  Oh yeah, sorry…So I pull up the map and laugh at it because we have ran this ‘half marathon’ before, TWICE.

I read the cute description: “ Half marathoners will run on the historic Western States trail, out to no-hands bridge and will then tackle one of the toughest climbs in the area, and training grounds for top runners, the dreaded K2. The latter portion of the half marathon will join up with the 10K and 5K runners and will traverse through meadows, single track, and farmland rolling hills, making your way back to the start/finish”

So yes, Tabitha if you’re asking if we can run this half marathon next year…YES we can.  If you’re saying our time sucks…Yep, I know. We are working on it.

If you’re saying ‘they are keeping me chained to my desk and feeding me nothing but gummy bears…”   I got nothing.