Zev and Fi: Super. Man.

Sunday, April 03, 2011

Super. Man.

I know that everyone thinks their husband is the best, strongest, most "super" (what is the superlative for "super"?). Anyway, I am here to say on this blog, well, because I can, that my husband really is super. Man.

Zev entered (ok well really I entered him, he raced) in a local race called the "Off-Road Run" It was held at the local shopping center and featured a 9km course dotted with obstacles like the sand pit, stair climbing (the parking lot stairs), climbing over hay bales, navigating through the recycle bins and the shopping trolleys (this was a shopping center race!) and through the woods for a little bit. I was so proud of him. He finished 62nd out of almost 400 participants!!

The race covered about 1000 feet of elevation change over 5 and a quarter miles.

Someone was a little nervous before-hand...

This is what I said when he asked me why he had to run this by himself (I just laughed and said "´This one is your race baby.") I know my limitations- flat races for me. I am not an obtacle course runner...

But I was there for my super man nonetheless.

Before the race started, we toured the "course." I just love the yellow recycle bin obstable course. We use three different bins in Germany; green is for regular trash and is our smallest bin; yellow is for "Gelber Sack" items which include plastics, packaging materials, and blue is for our paper.

And they´re off! (Zev has a green shirt on...can you see him?)

It was so warm out there, it was almost downright hot. I love this weather. Temperature is probably around 80 degrees Fahrenheit or about 27 degrees Celcius. The image below is cool; it is the screen shot from Zev´s Garmin, which shows the actual path that he took! He ran the race in 43:37. Pretty good for a 9km obstacle course in warm weather! He is my super man.