drumlin constitutional

i dozed off for a few minutes after turning off the alarm clock and awoke about fifteen minutes later. looking at the clock i rolled my rear end out of bed and got geared up. temps were in the mid-thirties and thankfully the rain has moved out of the area. i headed down comanche and headed west on the glacial drumlin trail. after 2.5 miles i did a 180 and headed for home. once i reached my driveway, i didn’t waste any time heading in to get a shower and make breakfast for the girls.

congrats to my buddy dana who ran an awesome 5K over the past weekend at Gary’s Gallop – – and won the race. he’s got a race report posted on his blog with the details of his effort. last year we did this 5K after running a 20 mile warm-up.

if you ever need motivation to qualify for the boston marathon, you will only need to see the picture associated with an article that ran in the Milwaukee Journal over the weekend titled marathon mission. i met jeff at a race about a week before he headed to miami for his BQ. great guy.

speaking of the Boston Marathon, i’m looking forward to watching the video of the race this weekend. if you missed it, the on-demand video is available at http://bit.ly/15LO5L. i’m looking forward to seeing my canadian “cousin” scott cameron on the coverage as he was front and center on the 2nd wave start.

i am amazed at how it is possible to follow the boston marathon these days. on twitter there was a guy “tweeting” on his cell phone and posting pictures taken by his cellphone online – – live. check out twitter.com/steverunner to see what i mean. my canadian “cousin” scott cameron had his blog automatically updated, while the race was being run, with split times by the Athlete Alert function of the Boston Marathon web site. The Boston Marathon web site also upgraded the online version of the Athlete Tracking so you could follow up to five runners and just press a button to refresh the page. it’s too bad that we didn’t get an American winner, but a pair of “bronzes” is certainly progress.

22. April 2009 by Jerry Cameron
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