I officially survived Bay to Breakers on Sunday. Despite inconsistent training for the last few weeks and some unhealthy eating, I managed to finish the race with a start line to finish line time of 1:19:43. Blake and I got a late start, so my gun time was higher, but that’s not the point. The point is that I ran 7.48 miles in less than 80 minutes (including the time it took to dodge the walking costumed people we were stuck behind, which slowed down our pace). Thats 2 miles further than I’ve ever run before (see, I told you I wasn’t training hard enough). Blake was also nice enough to offer me a water bottle from his trunk, though we noticed it had expired in 1998, thus making the water about 10 years old. Despite this, I am still looking at running a 6 mile race with him this summer, and possible entering another 5k. I’m not sure that I want to be on an intense exercise routine, but I do want to lose this last bit of weight and planning races will keep me motivated to run.

Some general event photos and the photos of me that I am too cheap to purchase.

Today, we had an off-site at City Beach for our engineering organization. We did some team-building exercises that I wasn’t too thrilled with, but afterward, we got to do whatever we wanted. I ended up playing basketball for 2 1/2 hours, which has made my feet incredibly angry with me. Actually, I was really surprised how well I held up, considering that I expected to be pretty sore today because it’s two days after that crazy run.

Now I’m going to collapse on the couch.

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