happy THIRTY 🎂
THIRTY never looked so good!
Birthday work-day CINNAMON ROLL (kiddo fave). Lunch libations at Avery Brewery in Gunbarrel. Time-crunched for a brew tour but didn’t skip the lunch flight trio 🍺
Gal’s got priorities. LOL>
Lame-o birthday month for the BIG 3-0. Still recouping from the world’s longest flu. Fever gone, back to work. Just zero energy, completely zapped. Ho hum.
THIRTY-ONE’s gonna be HUGE! Promise ❤️
Bit lame-o for Tommy W’s day also. State closed all restaurants due to the COVID outbreak. DoorDash app helped maintain birthday-tradition chicken from ‘The Post’. Celebrated another year AND supported LOCAL. Fried CHICKEN front-door delivered. YUM! Ash-influence rubbing off. Usually all do-gooder initiatives are hers!
Happy Birthday beautiful ones. We’ll go BIG in 2021!
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- breakfast FAVE
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- LUNCH 🍺
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- bread pudding S’MORE
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- Ash & aunt Collette
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- Wilp TRADITION ☘️
Rowan O’Roark
Been a tough week to celebrate the annual Holiday of LOVE.
Fever & lack of energy, day after day after day. Hadn’t missed a [non-marathon] day from work in YEARS, but this… can’t seem to shake.
So 2K20… most thankful for those PRESENT in our lives.
Those who show kindness and love when you’re down & need it most.
Many thanks Ash for bringing by food. Thanks to friends texting/for checking-in. And thanks most to my best pal, Ro. BESTEST companion EVER. I love ya buddy 🐾
Happy Valentines Day 2K20 ❤️
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles” ~ Willa Cather (1927)
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- BESTEST pup 🐾
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- BESTEST card
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- BESTEST family
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- BESTEST friends
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- Holiday of LOVE ❤️
Valentines Day FUNNY (niece & her comfort cat)
“It doesn’t matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, ‘I have finished.’
There is a lot of satisfaction in that.” ~ Fred Lebow
Woke early cheerleading myself; only 3 to go. Little bounce day-over-day. Legs stopped moving day prior – think ‘lead legs‘ the new norm. No real recovery. Lack of sleep taken its toll. Trained for ‘miles‘ & throwing multi-day distance. Never foresaw sleep deprivation. Mind fuzzy/cloudy, nothing’s ever crisp. Reality/dream states blurred. And emotional. Even at Christmas, my family… we’re not huggers. Certainly not weepers.
Suck it up buttercup, it’s Race day 6 – and today, this day I’m running 26.2 in the Red, White & Blue 🇺🇸
Sunday. BIGGEST race field of all 8. Hundreds of participants. Flat course & NYC confidence. Crazy fast field. End of Lap 1: Ash & Tom. Taste of HOME, my Colorado FAMILY. Lap later, had it settled in my head. I got nothing to prove. I’ve got folks who love me. I’ve been to Chile, marathon’d in Antarctica. Nothing left in the legs, spirit dinged. Finish the Half & heading HOME. 5 continents in 5 days. I can live with that.
Lap 2, no Ash. Text’d to meet at the tennis courts. It’s just ahead; they were geocaching. Got it! Thankful they weren’t hanging idle while I’m slow-slogging ‘round Long Island. New York State not… ‘the City’.
Ahead on the right. There they are. Smile. Short wave.
Left. Look LEFT. Tunnel Hill mirage. So weird. Same headband, same hydration vest. Smiling, laughing. Talking. No, it’s REAL. Half-a-country away from her St. Louis home. She’s HERE. HOW?
Long embrace. TEARS. No words. Sis – in Garden City, New York ❤️
And Ash. And Tom. And my in-law bro, Paul.
They’re all here.
Run, walk, crawl but finish. I can do this. Triple 8 FINISH.
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- Sis SURPRISE
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- Triple 8 BOOST
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- Taste of HOME ❤️
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- marathon STRONG
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