Blatherskite

I made it back alive! Here are some pictures.

We walked down to the race from our house. It was actually a really quick walk and I was surprised. Walking into the downtown area I saw this shop. I was really quite repulsed by it, for some reason. But I thought I’d take a picture of it.

While we were waiting for the race to start I saw some kid throw his sweatpants up into the tree above me. I looked up and saw the picture above.

Then I looked down the street at all of the trees and this is what I saw:

Must be a Bloomsday Tradition.

Here is the starting line:

The first landmark we saw was what I think is the old Carnagie Library building:

Then we saw Elvis playing an accordian:

We saw lots of bands playing all different kinds of music. Here are some people playing bluegrass:

Here is the foreboding Doomsday Hill:

It seriously started to rain and get stormy as we approached our ascent.

Raf wanted me to get a shot of him with the vulture at the top of the hill:

Strangest sight of the day:

Somewhere in this shot is the finish line:

When I got home and took off my shoes I was greeted with this:

I didnt’ even feel it! Well, I shouldn’t say that. I felt a bit of a twinge. and I knew I would get some sort of blister. But I didn’t expect this! You’d think that I would have felt something that produced this much blood.
I should say that I pretty much limped home. We had to walk back after walking the 7.5 Bloomsday route (on top of walking to the race). The walk home was a bit much. I didn’t have the crowds and the music to keep me going. I was hurtin. my feet hurt, my legs were cramping up. It was cold. We had to walk up a steep hill (the very hill raf got into the wreck on). I was in serious pain. I came come and slept for two hours because I was so exhausted! But next year, I’m promising myself, I AM GOING TO RUN BLOOMSDAY! Dammit! I’m going to do it.

Here is what this year’s shirts look like:

I LOVE them! Love the color especially.

All in all, we had a really fun day, despite the pain. Definately glad we did it.