Dad's Day

Where to begin...

I will start with my dad.
Daddy Jim (as my sister and I refer to him as) a daddy to 3 daughters in which 1 is in heaven. You are a a hard working, hard playing, hands on dad. A dad who works for everything you have and have instilled a respectable work ethic into both your daughters (which I sometimes get upset with you about). You are a hero to me and I know to many others. Thank you Daddy Jim for always being there when I've needed you and for being a shoulder for me to cry on at times.

My sister, dad and I before the Sunburst 10K 2008

Daddy Jim and I

Ian and PaPa Jim



Marcus, Ian has no idea how lucky he is to have such a hands on daddy. A daddy who will help him poop (push knees up to chest so baby is in squatting position), feed him, change him, love on him, comfort him and make him laugh. Thank you for being such a wonderful daddy to our baby boy.

again

If Ian could talk I would imagine him saying "again, again, again". It's the quite the workout with a 18lbs (completely guessing there) baby.

what's the rush?

What is it as soon as you do this:



People ask when are you gonna do this:


and then not even 6wks later they ask when you're gonna do this:

soft talker

The past 3 days I have been a soft talker. You know the Seinfeld episode that Jerry ends up in a pirate shirt because he couldn't hear what the lady was saying? Ummm...what could I make people do?? Thank goodness for unlimited texting and the internet.

I feel fine I just have no voice so I whisper and re-whisper until the person I'm speaking to has invaded my personal space. I had to conduct interviews for work on Monday and then again today. It has been pretty funny though, I went to Target yesterday and I had the lady at the service department whispering back and she didn't notice until I told her she didn't have to whisper. It happened again today when I stopped in the offices at the fire station to pick up somethings I had one of the ladies in there whispering back. The other thing that people have done is talk louder as if I whisper because I can't hear. Why do we do that? My sister says they do that down in Florida at her work when speaking to those who speak little to no english they talk louder as if it's going to make a difference. Too funny...

Then I'll have people point out the obvious, they say hello I whisper hello back then they say oh you have no voice...really I had no idea my voice was gone. Then we go through the whole let's play Dr thing and they come up with no medical diagnosis what so ever. Fun times...

cross off

I can cross run a 1/2 marathon off my list of things to do. The only trouble now is that I'm competitive and want to do better. I know can do better I was doing great while training. I had 3 goals: Goal 1: finish, Goal 2: take no potty breaks, Goal 3: finish under 2hrs

I fulfilled goals 1 and 2 my finish time was 2hrs and 16min. For one I was battling a sore throat, sinus drainage, cramps and a blister that welcomed itself to my foot by mile 3. Yes mile 3 I still had 10.1 miles to go...the race was yellow flagged the entire time due to high humidity (the humidity was the highest it has been on race day according the Sunburst officials) so we can add that into the conditions I was running against. The blister that developed then caused me to change the way I ran to help reduce the pain and well at the finish line and all day after the race my knees paid the price for that minor shift. I was not prepared for the hills, yes I ran hills some hills in training but not Hill St. this hill is even hard to drive up so I've heard...I also don't know my way around the area in which we ran so I had hard time talking myself through it. When I train I know my course I know what to expect, Running is basically playing mind games with yourself till the finish line. Oh the mind games I played.

The question has already been asked if I will run a 1/2 again and I think the answer is yes, I know I can do better and I know if the cramps and blister hadn't attacked me, my sister and I would have finished together. Which would have made the course not feel so boring and never ending and the mind games wouldn't have been so hard to play.

Bonus Marcus, Ian (my training partner) and my parents were in the stadium to greet us and take us home to our respective showers.

Real quick my cousin Connor who is 17 and the one that will be a senior at Penn ran the 1/2 in 1hr 38min his goal was 1hr and 50min...are you kidding me he always under estimates himself and does way better. Oh to have that thinking.

Here's my sister and I:


Here's the part of the family my cousin Adam and his wife Alicia and their son Nicholas walked in the sunburst.

common courtsey?

Isn't it common courtesy to hello back when someone says hello to you? Did I miss something? I mean I know I basically missed the the new year but I'm pretty sure common courtesy what not something that we gave up. During my runs Ian and I go to one of the area river walks and there are always people there. I always say hello or good morning with a smile on face in passing and very rarely is it reciprocated. I don't get it, I'm not looking for a conversation or best friend just a friendly hello back.
I will have some days where everyone I smile at and say hello too will acknowledge and reciprocate and then there are days (lots) where I can't get even get a smile out of people. I feel like if people acknowledge my hello and smile that they are nice enough that if I were to be in some kind of trouble that they would be kind enough to help me. You know sending out good karma will bring good karma to me, or treat others how you want to be treated. The basics we all learned way back when we were wee little people figuring this world out.

Am I asking for too much??

3 mos pics

So that Ian is 5mos lets not waste anymore time here are Ian's 3mos photos from Knox Photography.