Girls Gone Fishing

Each year Saxon Harbor holds a fishing tournament and a Powderpuff day for the ladies. My dear friend "Mom" and her generous father have allowed me on their boat for two years now. This year was a great time, even though Mother Nature kicked us off Giche Gumee an hour early because of a hail storm. 

I want to say that we caught 9 salmon, but I'm not really sure. We certainly had a blast. Until next year Tracy Lee.

Brian Nasi 5K

When it's not winter, I try to run a race of some sort each month and May's was The Brian Nasi, which I walked last year. It was a lot of fun this year, aside from the snow on the ground when we woke up. My bestie, ReRe came up. She finished much faster than me, but it was my best 5K at 30:25.

Brrrr... It's cold out here ( rhythm from Bring It On)

The of course, a fun day can never be had without food and family. It may not have been my family, they are definitely next in line: the Res and the Gregases.

Crazy Legs 8K

This year my buddies from "The Pond City" kindly invited me with them to a race called "Crazy Legs" in Madison, WI. This was sooo much fun. We got up early, had our peanut butter toast and oranges and walked a mile to the start. We lined with 17,000 other runners. What a way to start the day!  I finished with Jetski and KJ just under 55 minutes, which for me is fast. E$ and Malls were ahead by 5 minutes or so. We of course celebrated with giant burgers and pitchers of beer. Otherwise it was a calm, relaxing weekend full of talking and dinner. Great company ;)

Did I mention I got to high five handsome quarterback, Joel Stave at the beginning? That kept me going through the 3rd mile until I realized he's probably about 19 years old. This made 27 feel old.

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Feeling young again

One of my coworkers is quite intense and since I've become friends with her, I find myself injured quite frequently and this weekend in April was no different. We entered into the Spring Thaw basketball tourney at the college-- it's a nice time for old  people to feel young again. She talked me into joining last year and she blew out her ankle and couldn't play so we decided to enter this year and compete with a bunch of our girls from Hurley last year. Well with a minute left in the game, this happened:

Then this happened:

Champs champs champs! I guess I wasn't MVP but probably most memorable for crying on the floor like a small child. I guess my ankles didn't exactly get stronger with age. So this happened:

Talk about mind-numbingly cold. I don't know how real athletes sit in those tubs. This was bad enough.