Just an Average SKIRT

Visited our close friends Gayle and Stan Brooks last night up in Nederland. These folks gave us a precious gift 3 years ago, our little or not so little, girl Lhasa. Since this meeting of fate we have kept in touch with them and visited the clan many times. As seen here, Lhotse, Tashy, Sumo and Kailas are Lhasa’s first family. Missing from the photo is MoMo the latest addition to the gang, she’s only a year old.

So Harry and Lhasa in the car and up the canyon we go.  It’s always a scene when we first arrive, all 5 Berners charging the deck barking their heads up.   Sumo is the biggest, the alpha and also the biggest baby once he establishes that he is king.  Believe me, noone is arguing with him about his stature.  It’s just hysterical to see all 6 Berners running around and then in the middle of it all is our sweet golden Harry.   As always we had a great time with lots of laughs.

This week is race week, so preparing for Steamboat.  Checking my results from 2 years ago I place 16th in my age group out of 70+ women.  Hoping to have even a better result, we’ll see.  I feel good and I’m excited to race.  Ran 7.5 miles yesterday, starting my hill workouts as we’ve recently found out that the Cape Cod course is one hilly sucker.  I’m psyched to train hills as much up as down, get my legs accustomed to it so that I can achieve a marathon PR and my goal of breaking 4:30.  Sounds slow to many people I know but its all relative and reaching this goal will be huge for me.

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