three random things

A couple of weeks ago a few of us in my office ran the Cherry Blossom 10 mile race. Good news is that we finished in the top ten...bad news is that there were eleven teams (well over 10,000 runners, just not a lot of House teams in the division). In my team's defense, everyone else was a lot faster than me. It is my last race for a while. Less than one mile in I got a pretty bad cramp that almost made me stop running/quit. I ended up continuing and met my goal - faster than the Army 10 miler last year (beat it by two minutes) and no walking - but my knees haven't been doing great since, which is why it is my last race for a while. Elliptical, here I come.


Friday night Justin from the office and I went to a bar to watch the Caps game. I started a tab, and when I went for my second drink and gave the bartender my last name he asked "which Bigelow are you?" I assumed he was joking, but at the end of the night I shouted my last name to the bartender to close out my tab. A lady next to me stared at me and yelled "really!" Turns out the bartender was right - there was a second Bigelow in the bar that evening. She was from North Carolina and said that the Bigelows in her family were African American, so we figured we probably aren't related.


Today is Lelaine's birthday. We were going to have a bbq for her up on the roof deck. However, all week long the forecast for today called for thurnderstorms, so on Friday we sent out an email saying the party would be postponed until next weekend. Guess what: it didn't rain today. Hopefully it won't next weekend.