St. Paddy's Five Miler 2015

BoBo from Finding Bigfoot has nothing on us.  We found him and we have a picture to prove it.  BoBo can't top that!

What a day for a race.  Rain, rain and more rain!  Nothing stopping us! All five miles will be completed! (we already figured out the only way to take an alternate route is to swim across the river)

 Lots of rain gear!

We are sort of dry here.  We jumped in the line about 5 minutes before the race started.  That's Sheila on the left.

 Here we go!!!!

Not as many costumes this year.  Hard to wear a costume in the pouring rain.  We did see the Girl Scout cookie guy again this year.

 Lots of these! Umbrellas!

 I missed mile 1!

This is the river we would have to swim across to take and alternate route.  Pretty sure this would be worse than completing the 5 miles in the rain!

 Michelle took her own alternate route!

I took my phone with me to take pictures and disaster struck.  The battery died.  Freida saved the blog post by sharing some of her pictures with me.  Almost done!

This lady ran the race and came back to meet the three walkers!  I think she is bionic or something like that!

The final lap!

Quick get your shirt Jackie and let's get coffee and lunch and dry off!  This is the kick off for the next season of running/walking.  Love hanging out with my good friends in the EAOD.  I am blessed!

Because we were soaking wet be opted out on pictures of our soaking wet hair and clothes dripping water.  Here we are! We made it to the food and coffee!  Warmth and some drying off. 

 Pretty jazzy finger nails!  They aren't blurry in real life.  The photographer made the nail blurry.

12-13-14, Not again until 1/2/3000

Why oh why don't I get out more and walk in the winter?  Today was a great day for the 12-13-14 and it was in the 30's.  Didn't feel cold at all. Just bundled up and did it.  Maybe because it is way more fun to have my EAOD buddies with me.  The next race on a date like this will be 1-2-3000.  Not sure we will be here to do that one so we decided to do this one.  

Manatee Park on a December morning.  The pond was much more frozen than when I did the Turkey Trot. 

All the leaves frozen in the pond looked pretty fabulous.  The ducks thought so too. 

I wanted to get the light pole in the picture.  I must have tilted my camera to do that because the light pole looks crooked.  It isn't.

Robyn Nance took this picture. I tried to make the colors real but we got dots on our faces.  True.  Dots!

Kurt with instructions and Robyn explaining the Teen Closet Charity.  Kurt deciding to start the race at 10:11 was genius!  10:11, 12-13-14 just in case you didn't get the genius thing.

Could these ladies be more beautiful?

 Yes, even more beautiful close up!

 Here we go!

 I have never seen this in the park.  I like it!

Well, we did get a little side tracked on this walk.   Alternate route as we call it.  Who can resist beautiful flowers in the wintertime!

These pictures are what pictures look like when you have your camera outside and you walk into a warm green house.  The lens fogs up.  Not matter how many times I wiped it off it just came right back.  I went with it!  Glasses had to come off too!

 Better!

And this is what pictures look like when Freida keeps her iPhone in her pocket and it stays warm and doesn't fog up!  Thanks for sharing!

Back to my camera now!

Another alternate route.  We tried to teach Freida about geocaching and Sheila and I remember there was one close to this spot.  We never found it.  Had I thought about it I would have opened my geocaching app and it would have led us right to it.  I think this was our last alternate route.  Of course there was no official route so I don't think the flowers and geocaching count as alternate.

 Done. Next stop!

 COFFEE AND TREATS!

 We hung out with the big dogs today.  We were right there with the IronMan!  Yes, we were!

 Lovely house and love the red snowflakes.

 Cutest dog ever!

 So many treats to choose from!

Didn't have any of these.  A muffin for me.  The first one I choose had zucchini in it and I decided to trade for an apple muffin.  Zucchini is not supposed to be in muffins!

 Love these ladies.

 This is our new Christmas card picture!  Great morning with great friends.  I am blessed!