A Pre-Race Linkfest

The big race is Sunday. One more pre-race run tomorrow with the St Paul runners and then I'll rest until the race. At this point I can share with you that I'm not at all intimidated by the distance (half-marathon) but I'm totally intimidated by the Gilbert Avenue/Eden Park/Madison Road climb. My race partner has never run a half-marathon before but she has run up this hill more than once so I'm planning to encourage her the entire race except for this little part where she can be dragging my butt up a hill. (Her shirt looks awesome by the way.)

And now, for the links:

• This is for my Pooky bear. She knows why.


• The real United States of America? Funny, I think of Minnesota as 'always cold' too. Not sure where the truck driving thing came from.


• Fear of heights - conquered. If that were me I would simply cease to exist.


• I thought My Pooky Bear would also like this idea, although most of you weirdos who eat caramel will probably like it too.


• This shot, and this completely unrelated photo both make me think of Amanda.


• While most of this article is fairly disturbing, the last line is hilarious.

  No word on whether the truck, shown in the photo in a parking spot reserved for the handicapped, has the requisite disability tags.



• My hometown got high ratings for walk-ability? Seriously? Clearly these people have never tried to walk anywhere in Cincinnati. It's one of the few places on the planet where the phrase "I had to walk to school and it was up hill both ways" is completely true. I'm just saying.