The Are You Tough Enough went well. There were some last minute shuffles to the team. Thankfully Tristan and Shonna have a ton of friends. We had a good result, conditions were nice and we managed to all be uh, er, mmm, at least self-mobile. Tristan aggravated a calf injury, Shonna took a pretty good tumble (she easily had the hardest legs - no pun intended) and I felt like the race wouldn't make my stress fracture any worse (I'm not sure I was right). They had a good spread at the end of the race. The race shirts were done by Pata-gucci, and very nice. The race apparently has a new quote each year. This year's quote was, “We're not here to earn God's love, we're here to spend it.” At first I was bothered by the quote, but after thinking about it, I really like it. We already have God's love - it's unconditional. We don't need to earn it. I feel like we spend it by doing things for other folks.
Ragnar Ralay SoCal also went well. We had a great team and an excellent captain (Ginet). We managed a decent result there too, and if you look at the website we took second in the ultra category. This is a dastardly untruth, but we haven't gotten around to letting the organizers know. I promise if they send us some sort of award or prize we'll come clean. Ginet posted some pics on FB. She tagged me in some of them, but its not actually me, it's my stunt double. Tristan's calf hadn't fully healed by this event so he did the brilliant thing and pushed through the pain, and........tore his calf. Atta boy. He's pretty tough – eats broken glass for breakfast and washes it down with gasoline. My foot was still not 100%, but I don't think I made it any worse. Shonna easily had the toughest legs (again, are you noticing a pattern), but she did stay upright this time.
I took the month of May off from running on hard surfaces. I tried to maintain some running fitness by running in the pool. What I may have preserved in fitness, I may have lost in sanity. Pool running is only slightly more boring than watching paint dry, with your eyes closed. Did one more race recently. I'll recap that one later
