Went skeet shooting.. I seem to get good scores.. often better than the more seasoned people around me.. I have no idea why.
Took the girls to see Dan &Phil in Charlotte NC. They clearly had a good time! me, I just enjoyed seeing them have a good time…
And I had the SECOND annual Eds Uphill 5k.. I lost 50bucks to a stranger that was clearly faster than I was.. It was all in fun.
Posted on 30 June '16 by admin, under 5K, Activities. No Comments.
Another year of the color run for us! This is an interesting OLD storefront in Augusta on broad and 5th. I dont know how much longer it will be there, so I figured I would take a pic while I still had the chance. I was mad at Melinda, and Melinda was mad at me.. 🙂 I don’t even remember why now.
But here we are at the end.. again a happy family.. Turns out we had fun!
Posted on 30 April '16 by admin, under 5K, Events. No Comments.
Oh boy.. I am just going to publish this the way it is, as I am never going to catch up and cover all the stuff we have done this summer.
This has been a BMX summer.. Melinda and Hannah, Early in the season before little Hannah broke her collarbone (On a skateboard, not bike) ..
Found Melinda in the Airport…
Rockwell and some friends at the track!
Rockwell working on scavanging wood. Making him work!
The summer of frozen bananas
Pictures I need to find:
Rockwell coming in first in the main.
The new house on the back back yard
Ice cream
Rockwell at the FATS Trails
More pictures I need to find:
Melindas BMX race where she beat a boy and made the main, but the scorer did not write down the results right
Rockwell working on Moms chairs
Hannah’s visit to UofC
Melindas Birthday bowling
Visit to the woods near brick pond
Melindas summercamp at SCGSAH
Gaypride in Augusta
Eds uphill 5k
Rockwell’s birthday.
Posted on 31 July '15 by admin, under 5K, Activities, Birthdays, BMX. No Comments.
The last 24 hours has been pretty Amazing. It’s going to be hard to beat this run of events. We did a Zombie walk last night with Makeup (Rockwell was feeling sick and did not want to go), we did the color run this morning, We did a “Improve Everywhere” MP3 Experiment this afternoon at 6pm, and then we went to the BMX track and competed there till quarter to nine. Great timing of events.. It was Awesome!
Zombies! We actually found a place down town that would put zombie makeup on for cheap! I should have had more done for what they where charging.. students learning makeup techniques i guess.
Watch out!
Melinda cant help being pretty, even as a zombie! lol.
The group! There where some really good costumes!
The pre-walk meeting.
At the end, the zombie leader thanked his minions.
Then, this morning, we did the Color Run!
This is quite fun.. Especially for 9am in the morning! Melinda about to enter Pink!
In the Pink gauntlet!
Melinda and Dad at the end.. This was after the color throws.
Clearly the best picture of the day!! Isn’t this an awesome picture of Melinda??
Check out this video of one of the “color throws” at the end.. they give you packets of tempra to toss in the air. fun!
And here are all of us later in the evening after the MP3 Experiment.. the kids had a BLAST doing this.. it was so much fun!
Nice picture of Melinda and I, right before hitting “play”!
Good looking kids, right after hitting play.
Rockwell. Need I say more.
We ended the night with some BMX. Melinda and Hannah’s race. This is the race where Hannah, Melinda’s friend, took a pretty nasty spill. Scraped up her hand, her elbow, her side and her knee.. but she STILL finished!! No one can say these girls are not tough!!
One of Rockwell’s heats. This was the very first race he used clips on his pedals. In the final heat he took a pretty nasty crash.. I think melinda was wondering it came in three’s at this point!! Everyone was OK in the end.
🙂
Rockwell and Melinda have been Racing the fall BMX series.. they are doing great!
Our friend Charles taught a 3D printer class last weekend.. Melinda, Rockwell, AND Hannah, from Switzerland, attended! Hannah skyped in.
We had 6 different 3D printers to work with during this class.. pretty interesting!!
Proof!
Melinda has been attending some horse riding lessons. He thought she was riding western the whole time in St Croix, but it turns out her teacher there taught her a few English things along the way. Teacher: “Melinda! you are posting! There is no posting in western riding..!”
Another nice picture.
I just found this one on my computer… I don’t even know how it got there.. but its a awful good one! Somewhere in the VI.
Melinda has been helping me help some friends with a Haunted house. (Plantation Blood) She has painted and even buried a mattress! Here she is with a new fiend.. I mean friend.
Melinda taking after her older sister.. This is how I would find Hannah almost every day I would pick her up from school..her nose in a book.
I ran the Quacks and stacks 5k last weekend.. I came in 3rd out of about a dozen people.. But in the 50 and over class!.. I’m 49 for another two weeks!! I don’t know how that happened.. but someone got cheated out of 3rd place! If I was in the 31 to 49 class, I would have come in 10th place out of about 20 people.. still not that bad for an old man.
Posted on 2 October '14 by admin, under 5K, BMX, projects. No Comments.
Hannah and I did the Augusta Color Run (5k) this morning. It was more an event, than a race.. I really don’t think they even timed it. Every kilometer they threw a different color of, what I am assuming is tempera paint, on you. At the end of the race, there is a celebration party area, where you can listen to music and people doing stuff up on a stage, and participate in the color throws, where they give you packets of powder to throw.
In the middle of the race, we stopped at the clubhouse and took a picture with our friend Grace. Unfortunately her husband couldn’t be in the picture.. he was taking it. 🙂
Here is one of the color throws.. Hannah was mad when she found out I didn’t take a video… the whole thing from a distance was pretty awesome.
Here we are just about on our way home this morning… covered in color. 🙂
Anyway I did take a video, just from inside the throw. , check it out!
Posted on 5 October '13 by admin, under 5K, Activities, Friends, kids. No Comments.
I ran my fastest 5K ever today. 3.1 miles in 25:05 minutes. that is a low 8 minute/mile pace. Actually, my first mile was 7:49.. that was probably my fastest mile ever. Not bad! That might be hard (for me) to beat. It was for a local Baptist church. All of the proceeds go to help Schools in Swaziland.
This was the “Duck dash” I guess you picked a duck, and won a prize if it came in first. We were all above on a bridge watching them go.
Here are all the people from Ch12 that participated… Me, Mike (the GSM), Christie, (anchor/reporter), and Shane (Chief Meteorologist.) Mike was there volunteering. He goes to Warren baptist, the church that sponsored the run. Actually, Matt from the weather dept was there volunteering also, be he was not nearby for the picture.
Posted on 14 September '13 by admin, under 5K, Activities. No Comments.
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