Canine Cruise [Updated]

Update: video here.

Angie & Chocho ran the Canine Cruise 5k yesterday on campus, and while it was a little chilly, the girls and I cheered them on.  It was a fun event because the people and dogs dressed in their holloween costumes.  Here's Angie as the Wicked Witch of the West and Chocho as her Winged Monkey.

Posing just before the start of the race. Note Chocho's black monkey tail!

You have to use your imagination for the wings, but Choch's costume comes complete with black monkey tail, and though you can't see it in the photo, angie has green face makeup on.  They not only came in second place overall for person+dog, They also won the award for best costume. Yay!

On the trail at Woldumar.

Later in the day, we went for a walk at Woldumar Nature Center.  The photo above was just too cute not to share.

Update: Angie and Choch made the State News!  See the video here, or click on the image below.

sideways rain

We had sideways rain all day. So I guess I shouldnt have been surprised when got home and saw this. Poor lil tree. Cho had some fun sniffing all around it, but lost a good squirrel viewing spot from the sideroom. Accuweather was calling the storm "Freshwater Fury". Almost as good as a birthday blizzard I guess!

Cho's got a bee on her butt!

Good thing it was a cool michigan morning... the Bee was moving pretty slow!

Walk to school day

The girls walk or ride their bikes to school just about everyday. But, last week was a special "walk to school" day where the students and teachers congregated at the Hannah community center and walked the mile or so to school together. Sparty was hanging out with Bee's class during the warm up exercises!

Almost to Missoula!

Montana is a loooooooooong state! We've been here since sometime in July! And given that we have about 120 more miles of MT we probably will still be here come Nov 1!

September was a fun running month! We kicked it off running 26.2 in Marquette! We logged 191.5 miles for the month putting us at 1791 for the year. Only 220 miles to go to Spokane! Seems within each, but after the Chicago marathon next weekend we both plan a week off of running, then easing back in an easy routine to round out of the year. So, its going to be close! But it actually seems do-able now.

I think the exciting part of this stretch is that we passed over the continental divide! We are in Lolo National Forest, where the bears are plentiful. Maybe that will help us to run faster in Chicago!