The following week.... My first race! I am so proud!!! I ran in a relay with 5 other people, and we all ran the same 5 km lap. Was really fun to be in the competitive atmosphere, totally addictive! I can see how people can do these small relays often! I will have to keep it up now I think (until my knees fail me eventually...). At the end of the race a couple of the other girls and I made a deal that we need to run the Aarhus half marathon next June! So that will keep up the training over the winter, and spring. Somehow I will have to learn how to run in the snow and not freeze, or slip and fall. Really I think the biggest issue is going to be getting the motivation to get out there and run, even though it is dark, and snowing!
We were competing against the other mixed gender team from the Reporting and Compliance group, the one with Steve and Carol on it. Really we couldn't have asked for a closer race, we lost to the other team by 9 seconds!!!! Mark who was running our last leg got passed on the home stretch, was so close! So proud that we all did so well though! Everyone on my team ran it in less than 30 minutes, and for us I think that is really good!
We were a team of 3 girls and 2 guys, and we lost to a team with 2 girls and 3 guys... so I would say we were top competitors :-D
I can't wait for the next one! I have my number on the wall to keep up my motivation!!!
Then Nate took me to Germany for the HighField music festival. Awesome birthday present! We tried a bit to pretend like we were young... However we stayed in a hotel room, thank goodness... the camp grounds at the music festival were trashed, and full of trashed people! Boys peeing everywhere, and outhouses that smelled horrible!!! So thank goodness for a clean place to go back to at night and hang out around in the morning. We took a nice walk around one of the lakes in the morning, and read our books for a bit... Before we headed into the madness. We saw some pretty good music on Saturday, Yellowcard and The Kooks were awesome! There were some others that were just ok that day... Headliner was Thirty Seconds to Mars, who I had to stay for since it is Jared Leto!! He was my favorite when I was young!!! Soooo good looking... And so was entertaining on stage in a comical way (I am sure that is not what he was really going for). He was wearing some long black parka thing, and sunglasses (at 11pm)... And then proceeded to forget his lyrics! Was amazing! That was the point we decided we had seen enough.. he was singing one thing, and tried to nonchalantly turn around to look at the words that were part of the "visual background" of his show.. and immediately switched to what he really should have been saying... classic... so pretty.... soooo not smart!
Sunday was absolutely awesome though! We saw so many good groups! No Use For a Name, Deftones, Jimmy Eat World, Dropkick Murphys, and the headliner on Sunday.... - Foo Fighters - did not disappoint!!! We had a really good time! We were the smart old festival goers though... We drank water (seriously Saturday we both had a drink, but Sunday there was not time for that), but not too much because the outhouses were disgusting (really - what do people do in there? how hard is it to get your business into the toilet???). And staked out a spot against the railing so we had a bit of space and could see perfectly! Not the front railing right by the stage as that is where the drunk psychos were moshing, and crowd surfing... but the second row railing just outside of all that madness where there was another layer of security (containing the wild ones in one area), so we were about 50 feet from stage probably, LOVED IT! Standing for that long over the two days though is brutal!! My feet were soooo sore and tired! Not sure if we will do another festival, but this one sure was a blast.
This is what I have been dealing with for the last week... oh yea, gangster Nate... with a really bad cold
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