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ORBIS Plane Pull

Now for something completely different.  Me and 19+ of my coworkers spent the morning pulling a plane for charity.  Check out the news video of the event here

Vancouver Marathon 2010 Race Report

DSCN2043 Originally uploaded by erinlesleylee Weil, the weather could have been better and my time could have been faster but who can complain about a PR? No, it was not the 4 hour marathon I had hoped for but I did manage to pull off a PR at 4:23:05. This was about 1 minute faster than my December 2009 marathon in Clermont, Florida. The day started with a long port-o-potty line and me being in the port-o-potty when the gun went off. No worries, I have my Garmin and the timer doesn't start until you cross the start line. As I left the port-o-potty and started my Garmin, the worst happened. My Garmin (which I had charged all night) was at 0% battery. Yikes! OK, plan B...look for the 4 hour pace bunny on the course. Because I started late, I had to quickly catch up to the bunny. I passed the 4:30 bunny then by about 5kms found the 4:15 bunny. At the 10km mark I found 2 friends who I was planning to run with from the beginning. They said they hung with the 4 hour bunny for a...