Girl

Frankie and her friend Kate made this "girl" out of an old 2x4

Bee and Frankie made their own home made pinatas. It was nothing fancy. They just decorated paper bags then filled it with some candy and dog treats. You can see that Cho Cho appreciated the dog treats! Oh can also see that after many missed attempts, Bee pulled the scarf around her eyes off!

Really?

Unbelievable! This is what i read in the New York Times this morning:

BERLIN — Now added to the list of banned performance-enhancing substances for female distance runners: men. The world governing body for track and field [IAAF] decided in late August that records in women’s road racing will count only if they are set in women’s-only events

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Beech St Bulldogs

The Beech Street Bulldogs fight to the finish. Bee and Frankie easily handed Cho her first loss this weekend in a tough fought victory. Poor Cho. Too many squirrels around to stay focused on the game.

3 Great Lakes, 1 weekend

Over labor day, we had the chance to stick our toes in three Great Lakes in one weekend. Here's the proof...

Lake Superior (Presqe Isle Park, Marquette)

Lake Michigan (Near Manistique)

Lake Huron (Michilimackinac Park, Mackinaw City)

Its Sept 1!

It is Sept 1 and that means alot of things!

*School starts! We will have a big 3rd and 1st grader this year!
*MSU students are back - so watch out for those crazy college kids!
*Football season starts (Go Irish!)!
*The Marquette marathon is here (yah!) and we will also get to dip our feet into Lake Superior, the only Great Lake that we haven't been to as a family!
*And we can post our monthly progress towards our run to Spokane!

August was a fun running month, giving us another 198 miles. This is probably our last high mileage month of the year with the Marquette and Chicago marathons around the corner. We are also at 1599 miles on the year!! 412 to go! We are just 4 miles shy of Bozeman Montana! August just saw lots of miles around east lansing/lansing. The flooding took out the river trail for a while, but beautiful running on the northern tier trail and through the hay fields made up for that! Being morning runners we certainly notice the differences in morning sunrise and temps. We started the month with the sun creeping over the horizon at 6am (sunrise at 6:30), and now it does not creep over till much closer to 7 (with sunrise officially at 7:03). That means some change up in running routes. However the trade off is OK as morning temps are around 52, which is perfect running weather. Got to love September!

Our route took us from Hysham to Bozeman. We passed through Billings, MT along the way. We had to laugh when we saw that the marathon this weekend should give us the mileage to get to through Bozeman and onto Manhattan, MT of all places. Not the Manhattan we are used to, but not a bad place to hang out for a week as we find our legs again. Had to laugh at the town's home page, as they feature "their skyline". We've actually never been in Montana in real life and would like to trek through one day - maybe next summer.