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Today was an awesome day for me =) .  I woke up this morning and got ready to head over to my buddy Sam’s so we could head down to run the first annual WOOF race down in Wells county.  It was raining and cold all morning long for the event.  On my first lap through the course I quickly learned that I was over-dressed for the event however and dumped off my jacket and sock hat at the beginning rest area on the end of our first lap.  I had a great time talking to Sam while we ran the event and I was extremely pleased at my fatigue levels through most of the race.  On the last lap Sam kept telling me to break on forward and eventually I did.  I opened up the throttle and ran at about my high end training pace at mile 12 or so of the race and felt great.

A couple people took note of my dress attire and hair, which I thought was pretty cool =) .  I wore my Walrus vs Eggmen T-shirt and a pair of rock-ware Pink Floyd pants (Dark Side of the Moon Edition. )  I saw on Sam’s blog that my time was 2:37:57.  I think that is a pretty good time for the run we did, which was definitely a tad over 16 miles =D .

Once I was back at my apartment Lucas was rearing to head out and get working on his car, which I don’t blame him.  Luckily we found the source of his oil leak which turned out to be the oil pressure sensor just beyond his oil filter.  The part to replace it was $12.95 and the time spent replacing it was only about 2 hours for the whole job.  He was happy and I was also relieved to see his car is in good condition.

I’m pretty exhausted from the day so I’m signing out early tonight.. 10:45.. maybe not so early I guess haha.  Lucas and I are headed back down to the homestead tomorrow as well so I’m thinking I may not get a chance to finish my user library this weekend as I planned, but that’s okay.  I had enough fun today to justify not getting it done.

WOOF Race T-shirt

Eating after the race.