Day 2

Life goal number one: live in Boston.

What a day! We started it off right with the 5k race. I wore my Oregon duck shirt for a little home pride and got a lot of cheers for Oregon during the race, I'm fact someone cheered "ducks fly together" to me! So great. For those of you who don't know. I have been struggling with an injury since my first race and didn't get to run for 2 weeks, just the eliptical during that time. This week leading up to the race I got to go on about 5 easy runs total... needless to say my dreams of beating my personal best and getting at least top ten were out the window. Getting on that start line I had few expectations. They had dropped to wanting to finish, hopefully finishing under 20 minutes (thinking likely high 19's) and maybe top 20 if I'm lucky. But mostly, I'm in Boston so just have fun. Well my friends, cross training does pay off! I did beat my personal best, ran an 18:39 and got 9th place for the women (out of roughly 2400) and 1st for my age group!! No idea how I did it, but I had so much fun doing it!!!! Kelli was also in the race, didn't feel too hot but still beat her personal best by 3 seconds! It was just too much fun. Someone who saw my shirt asked "you didn't come all the way out here for the 5k, did you??", and that was not my full intention coming over here, but now I would do it again just for that!!

The rest of the day was pretty low key. After the race we stopped by Niketown asked the guys working there where the nearest coffee was(for kelli) and I learned my life goal number two: marry a Boston boy! Oh my attraction to the accent and personalities! I don't know why, but I like it! I'd go to a stahbucks with them any day! :)

After that we went home, showered, ate and watched some of the redsox game. Then went back to Nike, I won a cowbell and all of us girls bought Boston Nike gear! Then we headed to my other uncles house, ate dinner and played trivial pursuit. My team won!!! I never win that game because my brother and dad cheat I'm pretty sure and know all the answers. But not this time! And my dad and uncle were on the other team... times are a changing! I also got to see some cousins I haven't seen from 3 to 10 years. It's a fun little family reunion for me, sorry kelli...but really you're apart of the family now too.

Anyway, onto day 3 tomorrow. Marathon!! And a few more days closer to fenway park!