Jenny waiting at a stoplight

Note from Jenny: The point of these pictures was to show that the biker/jogger trail we ran on intersected with a horse trail. There are "walk" buttons at "people" height and at "horse height"!

Running in the land of giants

I'm so short!

Six miles in Chicago

So next week is the race. This weekend we were in Chicago for a belated Passover seder. We ran six miles just to keep in shape along the Cook County Forest Preserve District. This is a ring of woods that runs all the way around the city and is very extensive. A wonderful strip of nature around a big city.

The woods are filled with deer and other wildlife. Here's a couple of deer enjoying themselves as we jogged past.

Last minute to donate!

If you've been saying to yourself "Boy I'll give money to Jenny and Michael at the last possible moment just like public television" that time is now.

This Friday is the day that the LLS will count donations towards our goal.

So, if you haven't, please donate by the link on the side.

--Michael

D'oh! Almost 12

We were supposed run/walk 12 miles last Sunday in North Park, but you can see from the fancy-schmancy GPS watch that we only did 11.98. Close enough. And all that was after hosting a seder for 11 people the night before!

North Park on a warmer day

We finally got to run in North Park on a day when it wasn't 40 degrees and rainy. Note the short sleeves. Michael was even wearing shorts.

Actually 10.03

Michael took a picture of his fancy-schmancy GPS watch, showing that we actually ran 10.03 miles that day.

10 Miles! Woohoo!

So we went back to North Park this weekend. As you can see, it was the first weekend of Trout season and there were lots of fishermen. There are a couple on the boat behind me.

More excitingly, we broke ten miles! I was going to take a picture of our fancy GPS running watch with 10 miles on it, but the battery died between finishing the run and getting to the car.

The weather was awful. We got rained on several times. We also ended up walking the last mile and a half, instead of jogging - walking. I had missed one of our during the week runs, and my hip started to hurt. Jenny was feeling pretty beat up as well.

We are both hoping that it doesn't rain the day of the race.

Ducks of France

When we were running in France, we spotted some ducklings that were in training with us.

More running in Paris

This is not a very good picture of Michael, but you can see that we are standing BEHIND a waterfall, again in the park in Paris - Bois de Boulogne. We enjoyed our run/walk that day and didn't find the 8 miles too difficult. The weather was cool but not too cold, good running weather. We only got rained on a bit towards the end of our run as we were headed back to the Paris Metro.

Running in Paris!

Sunday, March 30th found us in Paris for our 7th anniversary trip. But training doesn't stop just because we're in France! We took the Metro to the Bois de Boulogne - a park on the western edge of Paris. It's a popular running spot by day, and a hang out for prostitutes at night. Spring hadn't quite sprung yet, so the trees weren't green yet but we enjoyed the duck pond pictured here. We ran and walked eight miles that day.