STIHL Champion!!! Another crazy few weekends in the books. Where to start? I guess I could start with the most exciting news... I am the first STIHL Timbersports Series Boom Run champion. Gold Medal. Right here. Holy crap. To do this I had to do the impossible: beat Mandy Erdmann. Maybe she was having a really bad day and I was having a really good day, I don't know, but I actually pulled it off. Not a huge amount of prize money, but a really big smile on Shana's face. :) For a brief description of the competition visit: http://www.stihltimbersports.com/current/2005/dailyrep_vabeach2.html The rest of the weekend was also a blast. I finally got to go surfing after over a year of deprivation! Everybody was watching, and I was so scared I would be able to catch anything... but I did, and it felt GREAT! Total kid in a candy store. Virginia Beach is absolutely beautiful, minus some of the skeevy locals. Oh, and don't try to get any henna... you'll end up with a purple stomach. After competition on Saturday, we went on an AMAZING dinner cruise (sponsored by STIHL) on the Spirit of Norfolk. After the amazing dinner (diet took a break for a night) everybody seemed more interested in drinking than that dancing. Luckily Mandy was willing to tear it up on the dance floor with me. I went to bed early that night to catch my flight the next morning... but I'm pretty sure the other folks partied it up all night long. Alright, let's jump back a weekend. The UW Vet School Dog Jog! I managed to talk my boss Joe into letting me run with their dog Zeus. He's a GREAT dog, super friendly, just a bit on the heavy side. But that's okay. I only needed him to make two miles. No problem right? So we get there, and after sniffing every dog butt in the area, Zeus decides to lay down and didn't even want to go to the starting line. Luckily Ken's friend had her dog Louie ready to go. We did a doggie trade and I ran the race with Louie. I actually got second place! Even with Louie stopping twice to go potty! Ken also had a great race, but he had much tougher competition than I did. It was such a fun time. If you're in the Madison area and have not participated in the Dog Jog, put it in the schedule for next year! Today is Wednesday, and next weekend is almost within reach. I'll be working at the Planned Parenthood booth on Saturday, then Ken and I will probably do some camping and hiking. I haven't gone in SO LONG, so I'm really excited about it. Pretty soon it will be too cold to go out! Yikes! I just signed up for a NPC sanctioned Fitness Competition on October 15th. That's only about two weeks away... yikes! It will be good practice for Fitness America Nationals though. I need all of the stage time I can get! The diet is going so so... lots of cheating. Luckily I've stepped up the workouts a bit, so the cheating won't totally kill me. Well, that's about it for my updates!