whiskey and smoked gouda

I relaxed with some of both last night. 

Yesterday morning I ran the farthest I’ve ever run in my life – 10 kilometers (6.21 miles)! I ran The Stride 10k (benefit for Littleton public schools) with Lisa and she was an amazing running partner.  We ran the entire length and didn’t stop.  Now, I know to some this is no big deal but I typically run only about 3 miles at a time and have been doing that for 10 years off and on.  Also, I only ran about 5 times in the past month.  So I had serious doubts about my ability to run the full 10k without stopping. 

But we did it! I’m so proud of us – here we are just after completing the run:

There were some hills on the damned thing too.  See the profile below.  Sure there’s some vertical exaggeration but still! I had no idea Littleton had so much elevation gain and loss…I know it’s no trail run.

Monster

The Friday before Halloween this year I ran the Scream Scram 5K at Washington Park here in Denver. This is a run that benefits the Boys and Girls Club and a run in which the participants are supposed to be in costume and a surprising amount of people were.  I was one of the exceptions as you can see below in the photo of me and Beaker (an amazing costume and the awe-inspiring assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew).

Anyway, one of the draws of doing the run was the t-shirt.  This is special because typically t-shirts associated with athletic events are mediocre at best.  Not this one.  This one had a unique drawing of a strange being (and its cat) that was oddly alluring:

Turns out that a friend knew about the artist and shared a web site – The Daily Monster. In direct contradiction to the site’s title, the artist doesn’t actually post a daily monster (at least not that I can tell), but there are some pretty fantastic monsters featured:

This hits right at the center of my desire for whimsical art – love it.