What is this a picture of? This is a picture of the pile of pictures I took this year while running road races all over the northeast. I kept them in one big pile until a couple weeks ago. They are now nicely organised in photo albums. My friends used to have fun when they came to my house. They could pick any picture out of the pile and I could tell them who was in the picture, where the race was and what the day was like at race time.

If I met you and took your picture you are in this pile. There are also many pictures of people that just caught my attention during a race. To all those that made it into this pile "Thank You" for making 2009 a great year. I appreciate the new friends I have made and the new places I've been. I hope you continue to communicate and we not only stay in touch but meet again.

Many of my friends know that 1. I love to run 2. I'm willing to run through painful situations. What you see here is not an anatomy lesson. On occasion I have had hamstring situations. The picture on the bottom is the cutting of tape and heat wraps leading to the picture on the top. These are the way my legs looked prior to putting the running close on before going off to some of the races I have run.

Even when there is no hamstring situations, on colder days I will put heat wraps on the backs of my legs just to allow the muscles to stay warm as I cool down.