Super Super Run for Parkinsons

Well... Steve and I got up nice and early to go on the Parkinsons run. Thank you to everyone who donated and supported our run. The race started off well but hit a snag half way through as they were upgrading the golf course and doing some construction. The run wasn't well marked and both Steve and I made a wrong turn at the bottom of a hastily posted detour. Difference being he had the sense to turn back at the switch back (while still going the wrong way, but not as far as me and another girl and some kids did) and we continued on until we saw the train bridge and I finally called to the girl ahead of me and told her we should probably turn back. Don't know what ever happened to the kids....

I am posting a map with the course that we ran versus the course that the actual run was supposed to be... Steve and I both finished around 25 minutes or so last year and we out did ourselves this year with the detour. He finished at around 35 minutes and I hit around 41... surprising considering we did an extra K or two... not as much as I thought at first considering Steve and a few other people got turned the wrong way as well... they just figured it out before we did!

The exercise won't kill me though! Next year we are considering taking Daisy for the walk and forgoing the run... maybe Steve can walk the pooches and I will run 5km plus whatever I feel like throwing in because I can't tell what direction I am going in.

Here come the maps...

You can note on the intimate map of Rundle park that if you followed the red line and then did the switch back along the path heading back along the river then you would have completed the 5km course... the light blue shows the course Steve took. The loop on the larger map shows that several of us took a MUCH LONGER ROUTE... so much for following young kids...

Steve already made a good comment about the Lieutenant Governor razzing us because I have a partiallity for Red and Black. I would've told him straight up I hate football and would never support Calgary anyway but what would be the point. I should've said - Rah Rah Eskies!!!

Concert Go No More

Robert Plant I have to admit had tons of energy for an old guy... but the concert was still kind of a snooze and I was starting to get sick. Tuesday night I tried to recruit Mike to go with Steve to the System of a Down concert because I knew I'd be a drag but Mike didn't want to pay the 55$ to go so I bundled myself off to the concert. We had to wait a billion hours to get in because a full pat down was in effect so we missed most of Mars Volta which is who we really went to see in the first place. Someone was sitting in our seats so we sat on the end and then the people whos seats were on the end showed up and it was a gong show trying to get everyone to move out of our real seats. Neither of us much liked the crowd and when a guy lit up a cigarette next to us and the guys infront of us sparked a joint, Steve gave the OK to take off - thank god! I felt much to old to be at that concert. All the kids were annoying me. I guess I really am turning into a crank pot.

How Boring

I guess I wont be posting any new pics of our trip or otherwise. My camera has refused to close properly and when I took it to get it fixed they say it has to go to Calgary and will take up to 8 weeks to come back. Depending how much they decide to charge me I might just have to get a new camera. Blah.

Trip/Anniversary/YadaYada

My camera lens is currently busted so until I get it to a camera repair shop the photos of our trip are trapped...