i have so many fotos i need to post i don't even know where to begin. so i am simply picking random events in no specific order. because clearly, if i was doing order of importance i would post all about quasimindo and her wedding but alas i do not have those fotos with me so it will have to wait until another day.

so here is the story of another very special day, October 13, 2007. Betsy's birthday!! Sadly, we could not spend this day together and instead i ran a marathon. ha. total exageration. I and 3 other people ran a marathon. as in we shared the mileage. right on. our fab team, lovingly named "Is that a baton in your pocket (or are you just happy to see me?)" entered the Baltimore marathon. there was some debate in the name. I wanted "We Love RNing" but adam is not a nurse so thad didn't fly. Justin wanted "Run against Bush" but jen is a lesbian so that was x-nayed. Somehow we ended on the baton one. it amused me. Sadly, we did not have a real baton to exchange at the relay exchange points. Instead, we had to take off an ankle strap timer and pass that on to the next member. but after running 7 miles one does not feel like taking it off and passing it on. so it was up to the person about to run to destrap the timer as seen in this fine handoff between myself and adam.


we all did so wonderful in the race. justin started off and ran so fast i wasn't ready for him when he showed up at the exchange. he must have been showing off for his jaunt through mt vernon (the "arts" district). i then ran a personal best despite a cramp stabbing me so bad in the side that i was considering drowning myself by ft mchenry. here is a foto justin took of me nearing the end of my leg. i chose not to drown myself.


adam then ran through fells point, canton, and picked up the pace through clifton park where he handed off to our uber fast finisher jennie who hauled it down to the stadiums to make us place in the top...well we can't exaclty figure out what place we came in b/c all the timing for the relays got confused but we did great! we then enjoyed our post race beers and utz chips and bananas. and crab soup. (added to the donuts/munchkins justin and i ate while waiting for our teammates to finish. the benefits of finishing early!) fotos for your enjoyment.