I'll try updating again soon...I just have to remember how to do this html stuff!
May & June '05...more or less
Other Thots and Happenings...
At this juncture, we've been working on the gardens (pics coming soon!) and I have new windows on my porch and a new fence in the back yard. All waiting to be documented!
Here's how the canoe garden is looking so far, with new fence in the background. And these are my new sliding glass/screen porch windows. Next will be new tile I think.
As for birthdays...
Lenore artfully blows out candles without blowing her #45 Hot Wheels car off the cake
(carrot, of course).A close-up of the cake -- it was yummy if I do say so myself.
As noted above, I adopted Hoops, and also, all her kittens were adopted. But I'll keep the pictures up cuz they are so cute. Frank lives next door to Lenore on one side, Tommy on the other. I don't think they get together much though. Sasha was adopted by Lenore's neighbor's niece.
View those past photos here.
Later That Same Weekend...
We decorated Lenore's Mini for the
Memorial Day parade.The girls sang Happy Birthday to Lenore after they helped throw candy in the parade.
Lenore's Triathlon Results!
This is the official start of the race. Here's Lenore just before the horn went off to start the race.
Triathlon Report �05
6/12/05
Naperville, IL
This year�s Reebock Women�s Triathlon in Naperville raised $75,000 for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund -- wahoo! Lenore swam, biked and ran a great race, improving her time 5:15 from last year.
This is a fun event because there are about 2,000 women who compete, and they�re all shapes, ages and sizes. It�s heartening to hear husbands, partners, kids and parents cheering on their athletes. I especially liked hearing kids yell, "C�mon Grandma you can do it!" It just makes me smile.
Like prior years, there�s an amazing array of women and equipment. Bikes in particular ranged from state-of-the-art racing bikes with the disk wheel thingees (see photo below) to trusty Schwinns complete with baskets and horns.
There was also a range of idiots and heroes in the crowd. Like the Bozos who kept crossing the street with dogs and strollers and getting in the way of racers. Did we forget how to look both ways, people?! But they were offset by the young man who saved the day for a biker whose chain fell off right out of the gate. He dashed over and �snick!� snapped it back into place and dashed back to the curb in about 1.3 seconds. He may or may not have lost a finger in the process, but he got a round of applause from onlookers.
The bike dismounts this year were much tamer. No one even flipped. Mounting up, however, seemed to pose an unusual challenge. Several lane cones bit the dust and one finish line judge almost lost a leg as women swerved all willy nilly rushing to get their feet clipped into pedals. Sheesh.
Lastly, I must comment on body jewelry. Belly button hardware in particular was big. One woman also wore huge hoop earrings (how would you swim with those?!). As far as outfits, I�ll just say this was not a modest crowd, and not much was left to the imagination. Especially when wet. �Nuf said.
But back to Lenore�she kicked butt in the swim, pulling into third place and staying there for as long as I could pick out her little bobbing red swim cap. It�s good to be a strong swimmer in these things because the mass of bodies and flailing limbs in the thick of things is kind of scary. As it was, one chick kept swimming all over Lenore for practically the whole race. I almost had to call "my people."
I ran over to the swim out (if that�s what it�s called) to see Lenore make her way into the transition area for the bike portion. Then I hurried over to the bike-out (which was also the bike-in spot). I thought I�d try taking a little movie at this point, and it�s pretty comical. I need to work on my panning skills � I overshot Lenore and had to pan back to find her. Oops! Oh well, you�ll still get the idea! I got her coming in too, but it wasn�t much smoother. Then, on the run out, she ran right toward me so it was�here comes Lenore�there�s her nose�and now she�s gone. I�m sure it�ll look much better once it�s set to, say, Chariot�s of Fire music though.
I should add that all of these accounts were mentally and/or digitally recorded well before 8 a.m. We got up at 5. On a Sunday. Thankfully, this is just once a year!
A Movie!
I made a movie, but it's too big to upload.
If you want to see it, send me an e-mail and I'll send you this 9MB file, which got two thumbs up from...um...my mom.
We�ll put a link to official race results and photos soon!
More Photos...
Lenore took an early lead and kicked butt in the swim. Now on to the bike portion of the race.
The Run...
Here's Lenore coming in to the finish.
Note the last stretch is up hill!Finished!
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