Some photos from the past month.
Flowers for my mom yesterday. The vase was a gift when I was in Japan.
Flowers for my cousin's wife who has had medical issues. They will meet me today to help bring some closure with my aunt that had a stroke 5 years ago in the nursing home. Her husband, my uncle, passed away last year.
Dog sitting all my parents were on vacation in Florida last week after the 13.1 event. She was so exhausting because of her age and ornryness. She can't seem to hold the bathroom inside the house and seems to not want to use the bathroom outside. But I made sure to take her for a walk no matter how much she bit me when I picked her up after work. She ended up enjoying the walks.
A sunset at a nearby lake before I took a media break.
13.1 tree Town tussle event in Ann Arbor. It rained the whole time and I got off course but backtracked and kind of made my own course of 15.5 miles.
I got pretty dirty from all the mud and single rail tracks. Lots of inclines.
Getting off course in Ann Arbor gave me a chance to stop and take pictures. My phone got drenched and rain from taking it out to look at the map but it survived.
On one of my training runs of 11 miles before the event, I got permission from a world-famous Marathon runner who has written various books on training in his 70s, to get a drink of his water. He said the water will shave a minute off your marathon time guaranteed.
