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If you don’t know, Erika’s a big biker. I saw this from one of my former coworker’s blogs www.mattberan.com and thought I’d post it for her and because it’s really cool.

Congratulations to Silly Andy on a great run today in the Twin Cities 10 mile. Abbie, Erika and I got up early today and had a ball watching – even though it was hot and humid to just watch. Here are some photos…

TC10

Erika and I ran our last running event of the year, I think, on Saturday and both set personal records and both got 3rd in our age groups – it was the AMS 10K sponsored by my work and for the United Way. It was really fun and challenging run with lots more hills than we remembered from last year. It was pretty cool to hear “In third place for the women, Erika Lohn.”

Yesterday we did our first triathlon. It was in Glenwood, MN where we stayed at the Granberg’s cabin. It was fun – we all hated the swim part, but, had a really good time. Check out the video I put together for it.

Stuck on the roof

Here’s one of my funniest running stories. I found it as I was cleaning old web stuff out.

Sunday morning, 6/12/05, I go for a run. I’ve got my under armor running clothes on and I get back and I talked myself into weed whipping as I was all sweaty and it needed to be done. Then, since I’m all dirty, I decide to clean my gutters.
I get my ladder and climb on to the roof with my trusty homemade gutter cleaner (a four foot broom handle with a gutter elbow screwed to it and cut open on the top). I get that all done and I grab the hose, turn it on and climb back up the ladder to really wash out the down spouts good. I do two of the downspouts and when I go to the third, the hose hits the ladder and knocks it down. I’m stuck on the roof! I can’t see any other houses from my house and nobody was going to be visiting me the rest of the day – no cell phone with me either. What could I do….
I determined I could jump on to the deck approximately 7 feet down. This would risk not only my gutters and but also my ankles and with my first marathon a less than week away, I wasn’t going to do that. So I grabbed the hose and lassoed a branch.
Now for the funny/embarrassing piece…I was in my good running clothes and I didn’t want to risk ripping them on a sharp edge, so since I can’t see any other houses from my house, I took them off and Tarzaned down in my tightie whities.
It worked out real well, right after I got down I ran in and grabbed my phone and took this photo. If things didn’t work out that well, I would have had a lot of explaining to do if I would have been found unconscious and only in my underwear on the deck.

Upcoming Running/Biking/Triathlon Events

We’ve got a few fun events coming up that we are planning on participating in:

Get In Gear 10k – Saturday April 28, 2007 – Minnehaha Park, MN
http://www.getingear10k.com/

This will be the first time for both Erika and I in this – we’ve each done one 10K before

Minnesota Ironman Bike Ride – Sunday April 29, 2007 – Lakeville, MN

http://www.ironmanbikeride.org/

We did the 62 mile course last year in the rain and I think we are going to do the same as last year.

Buffalo Triathlon – Sunday June 3, 2007 – Buffalo, MN

http://www.tribuff.com/

This will be our first time for us in this as well – if I can talk Erika into it. We haven’t done any triathlons before and the swimming part scares both of us. But what the heck..

Grandma’s Marathon – Saturday June 16, 2007 – Duluth, MN
http://www.grandmasmarathon.com/
I’ve done this twice before and swore I’d never do it again, but I got the itch again. Erika is training for her first 1/2 marathon and doing awesome.