Let Me Catch You Up

Last night was a bit hectic, and that's probably putting it mildly.  Between being out all day for work, having to get gas, hit the bank, pick up snacks at Publix, make dinner for myself, pack, teach a class at 8pm, pack some more, shower, and deal with a cat who needs 110% of my attention, I was busy!  As much as I wanted to do more blogging last night, it just wasn't going to happen.  With that said, let me catch you up on things in as close to the correct order as possible!  (Yes, that's my disclaimer that with my foggy mind, events may be described slightly out of order.)

I like to think of myself as a pretty good packer.  Don't call me a "light packer," but I'm probably pretty close to that.  However, it's still hard to pack light for an overnight running race.  You've got to have your running duds, back-up running duds, some "regular" clothes for after the race is done, sleeping gear, towels & first aid knick-knacks, toiletries (had to look up the spelling of that word!), the sack 'o technology, and food (just to name a few things).  My goal was not to show up with 50,000 bags.  Tell me how I did!

This was how it started.  Not so hot, right?

Obviously that would qualify me as the bag lady, so I had to rethink this!  Here is what I did.  It's better, right?

What's not pictured is my backpack with "regular" clothes.  Also, the cooler (it's a tiny one) is missing.  But, you've got to agree this is better than the first way!

I definitely should've taken a picture of my trunk!  If you don't know, my car's tiny, and that means it's got a tiny trunk.  But I got a case of 20 ounce PowerAde bottles and 4 more packs of 8 PowerAde bottles stuffed in there!  Go me!

Everything (minus the backpack and the small cooler) was packed in the car last night.  My plan was to get to bed by about 9.  I think I finally laid down around 10:40pm.  Yeah, it was an early morning!  I set the alarm, well, let me back up, I set two alarms to wake me up!  The phone was set for 4:42am; the alarm clock was set for 4:43am (as the "just in case" one).  I beat the alarm and was up by about 4:05.  I'm glad because it meant I didn't have to be a complete crazy woman rushing around this morning...I was only a mildly crazy woman!

Speaking of which...  (Go read the next blog post.  This one deserves it's own topic!)