October was a busy month for Team Denison. John had cross-country meets almost every weekend, and Shane had swim meets two of four weekends. I finished my third half-marathon (fourth if you count the one I did as part of Vineman 70.3) at Cowtown on October 5. It was the most crowded one I’ve done and that may have contributed to an IT band problem I developed about halfway through. I finished the race in a decent time, feeling strong, but have had to give up on my short-term goal of running a full marathon.
I was really looking forward to running my first marathon, which would have been CIM this December, but I lost too much training time trying to deal with my knee problem. I’m only doing a couple of short runs a week right now, trying to get my running back on track. The injury did force me to look for another goal, so I’ve decided on the Solvang Spring Double Century in March 2009. Hmmm….26.2 miles on foot swapped for 200 miles on a bike. Now that I’ve settled into the idea, I’m pretty excited about it.
John has finished his first high school cross-country season, and the best I can say about it is that he survived. I’m proud of him for sticking to it even when things got painful or tough. He had a couple of good races, the Yolo County Champs and The Other Meet, but his first love is definitely music. He has his first school Jazz and Concert band performances this Friday and his first Camellia Junior Symphony performance Saturday evening.
We all did the Veggie Chase 5K in Rancho Cordova on October 12. It was a fun race with some of the best post race food around. There were lots of kids in the 5K and it was a great family event.
The following weekend Kyle got to participate in his first organized road ride, Foxy’s Fall Century. He and Kevin did the 50K ride, and Kyle loved riding on the open rural roads and the post ride meal.
We’ve had a busy month, but that didn’t prevent us from finding a sedentary distraction in the form of a new computer game. John had been wanting to buy Spore for a while and finally got the chance a few weeks ago. It’s now installed on every computer in the house and we’ve all made creatures.
