A Lame Relays Cup, Grass Stains and Gettin' Ready for Church

Hawkeyes 4x1600 Victory

Congrats to the Iowa Hawkeyes Women's 4 x 1600 team who won the event on Thursday at the Drake Relays distance carnival. I'm not sure why the call it a carnival, averaging a 4:49 mile each, that seems like it would hurt. The three seniors and 1 junior deserve the victory beating those Gophers by 1 second!

Someone asked me if it would be disappointing if my daughters didn't run track. Don't run track, that's silly talk...

I ran the 8k and said hi to Anthony Pudlo on the other side of the turn who proceeded to cross the median and run with me, the wrong way, other runners thought he was cheating, but couldn't catch him to say anything. Then he turned back around and ran another 11 miles. I did pretty well for having a back with a piece of protruding disc and I think a re-aggravated stress fracture in my left foot. You guys might remember Speedy Gonzales, but I was more like his cousin:

Slow Poke Rodriguez, the slowest mouse in all of Mexico.

Hopefully, I'll be able to pick up the pace at Dam to Dam after wearing my boot for a while, let me know if you're running we can all meet up at the beginning. It's the weekend after Sejal's wedding.

Thanks to Kinzie and Andee who helped us out by watching the girls last night so Mindy and I could go to the BBQ and Jethro's and Peggy's! 

Peggys Cups 

Every year Peggy's has a cup for relays and the rhyme is kind of cool, last year's was:

Keg after Keg
Cup after Cup
Relays at Peggy's
That's what's up.

Poetically it's an abcb rhyme scheme with repetition in the first and second lines making for the kind of sing-song poetry one wants to recite while in the back of Peggy's during relays.

This year there was agreement that it was pretty lame and I thought I would follow through with a poetic analysis.

Relays,
Not a day
Not a week
But a lifestyle
Peggy's Tavern

so no rhyme scheme, anaphora with not and not, the syllable count slides down from 2 in the first line, 3 in the second and third and 4 in the fourth and fifth, but overall, this poem didn't come together so I thought I'd try a couple of my own.

#1
Peggy's is where
You'll stumble to
When you break up
Need to find someone new

#2
When the Jethro's wait
is way too long
Drink it up at Peggy's
party with the throng

of blue and white
staying up all night
the ribs will be there
for your hangover fare

#3
When's it chilly at Relays
and you need to warm up
Have a drink at Peggy's 
Find a friend to ...

Grass Stains
So before Peggy's there was an amazing off-campus bbq that we went to and a flip cup game that covered three consecutive tables. At one point I thought it was a good idea to play full cup flip cup, and that's how the grass stains happened.

Grass Stains from my Dive

 So, it was my turn to flip and the table was so wet that the cup slid across the table and onto the ground so I dove under the table, retrieved the cup and flipped after two tries. Sorry, Cooper, no one flip done on that one. It all made sense to do that at the time.

A couple of pictures of the girls:

Girls getting ready for church, gotta eat, used to be we had to have her on her side, now Brielle can drink from her back.

Rianne very serious about catching the flying elephant.

Um. Maybe we need to give Teagan a lower calorie formula, that's a big belly.

Teagan looking spiffy for church.

Rianne's lookin' Cute.

Brielle, apparently, still hungry.