team chico-pee

It has arrived! The weekend we all (well, my roommates and I) have been waiting for.....HYANNIS '09! This year's iteration of Team Chico-pee* in the Hyannis Marathon Relay will consist of me, Katie, Mo, and Kiirsten. We haven't quite figured out the order of our handoffs yet, as Mo and I both want to run 13.1 miles, Katie might do 20, and Kiirsten is going to be our anchor leg. That clearly adds up to more than 26.2 miles. But we'll figure it out...let's be honest, probably at the last second as we approach the starting line.

At Hyannis 2008, as "Team KEEK"

This weekend is less about the running, and more about the roommate bonding. We discovered last year that the pre-race pasta dinner, the mini-road trip, Kiirsten's inability to navigate/drive/park as a licensed driver should be able to, and the post-race happy hour can be more fun than the race itself! We went down to Hyannis last year as four roommates doing our own little thing...and came back from Hyannis with some new friends, new boyfriends, and good memories :) This year will hopefully be more of the same--but maybe with a new half-marathon PR if all goes well.

* "Team Chico-pee" has nothing to do with the town in western Mass, but is rather a reference to our back porch and our upstairs neighbor, a crappy little pug named "chico". Use your imagination.