Photo Finish

/ Tracy Abell

Huge (and I do mean HUGE) apologies for the size of this pic.  Having technical difficulties posting photos on LJ lately but wanted to share what came in the mail: my BolderBoulder 2008 finish arranged artistically with my bling for placing.

57 thoughts on “Photo Finish”

  1. Your BolderBoulder win is definitely worth a big-screen image. Look how strong and beautiful you are, Tracy! You’re a winner, with or without the shiny object you’ve strategically placed on the bottom left side of the photo. 🙂

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    • Thank you, Melodye! I’m blushing at how enormous the thing is but I don’t know how to fix it.
      Your support meant so much to me all along the way. Thank you, again and again, for helping me cross that finish line.

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      • Oh…I was so happy to be part of Team Tracy. I loved cheering you from the sidelines!
        Re the size issue…hmmm…have you tried this: Go into edit entry mode, and see if you can find the tiny white square at top right corner of the image. (It’s likely waaaay outside the margins of your post.) You should be able to drag the picture into the frame by clicking on that square and holding down the left mouse button while you ease it into the margins. (Does this make any sense? Does it help?)

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  4. Thank you, Melodye! I’m blushing at how enormous the thing is but I don’t know how to fix it.

    Your support meant so much to me all along the way. Thank you, again and again, for helping me cross that finish line.

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  5. Oh…I was so happy to be part of Team Tracy. I loved cheering you from the sidelines!

    Re the size issue…hmmm…have you tried this: Go into edit entry mode, and see if you can find the tiny white square at top right corner of the image. (It’s likely waaaay outside the margins of your post.) You should be able to drag the picture into the frame by clicking on that square and holding down the left mouse button while you ease it into the margins. (Does this make any sense? Does it help?)

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    • You’re very kind, Sarah. I kind of laugh at what a good picture it is for a race because it reveals I wasn’t working as hard as I could’ve been. The key to looking good at the finish line? Run slower than your intended race pace!

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  9. This size is fine because Melodye told me how to fix it. But when I first posted it, I looked like King Kong or something equally large and scary. Probably blew out a few eyes in LJ land.

    Thanks for taking a look, Robin. 🙂

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    • Thank you, Barb. I look as if I’m looking up at the stars! The training club director reminded us in a final email before the race to smile for the camera when we came into the stadium and said the cameras were mounted on the bridge. Well, I thought that meant I should look up. Oops. I still love the photo because I remember how glad I was to have run the race. 🙂

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    • Thank you, Jennifer! That groovy dude started in a wave behind me so he actually ran a faster race. But it is funny seeing him there behind me in all the pics they took.
      Unfortunately, I’m injured and ran for the first time in three weeks yesterday. And today I’m hurting again so I won’t be running any races. Are you running? I’ve done the Rockies Run for the Homeless in the spring. Which race is this?

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    • That means an awful lot coming from the woman who went AWOL on a 10k and ran the marathon instead. I still never heard the full story on that one but I’ve shared that much with people, and everyone’s suitably impressed. What were the circumstances?

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      • Hee.
        Well, I had been training for the Omaha marathon, a very flat course. But about a month beforehand, I got injured (knee and ankle) and didn’t work out at all for a month. My mom, who was a marathoner, was running the 10 K that time, and my girlfriends with whom I’d been training for the marathon were running the marathon. So I signed up for the 10 K with my mom (an out and back race; the marathoners kept on going while the 10K’rs turned around), but was in a funk about it. The morning of the race this little onery voice in my head said, hey, why don’t you just keep on running instead of turning around? I talked to God about it and got the sense that my ankle and knee would be okay and he’d be with me through the ordeal.
        My mom was faster than me, and waved at me when she was on the “back” part of the 10-K while I was still on the “out” part of it. When I never showed up she determined that I’d gone AWAL.
        At about the 4-K point I started running along with this guy who was running the marathon, and we stayed together until about mile 16, but then he dropped out & I ran the rest alone. During the marathon there were parts where the course looped back on itself and we would pass the other marathoners in front of us or behind us. I passed this one woman from my town a few times when I was just running with the one dude. She told me later, though, that whenever she saw me I was surrounded by a group of guys. I’ve always wondered if she was seeing something I didn’t see.
        When I set out to go AWOL, I told myself I would walk if I got tired. But the thing is, by the end of that race it was just as painful to walk as to shuffle, so I didn’t walk and shuffled. I viewed it as a survival experiment, like I’d been dropped off somewhere and had to keep running to survive. By the end of the race I could barely move, but kept shuffling. Hardest thing I’d ever done to my body. Every single inch and muscle of my body hurt like heck–except for the ankle and the knee, they were the only parts that were fine.
        When I look at pictures after the race, I am all gaunt and my eyeballs are all sunk in. In fact, my eyeballs were all sunk in for a few days after that.
        🙂

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        • Lizzy! Thank you so much for sharing this with me. It’s an incredible story, just as I imagined (well, not the details but the awesomeness and courage involved). That’s so interesting about not having the memory of being surrounded by the guys but I believe that stuff happens when we’re so focused that we lose sight of everything around us. You were operating on sheer guts at that point and probably didn’t have an ounce of energy to give over to such trivialities. 🙂
          Many congratulations on your incredible feat. Wow. You’re an amazing person.

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    • Thank you, Janet! Did I miss your triathalon? I haven’t been around here as much lately and I just realized I hadn’t heard about the race. Is it over or are you still in training mode?

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  23. Thank you, Jennifer! That groovy dude started in a wave behind me so he actually ran a faster race. But it is funny seeing him there behind me in all the pics they took.

    Unfortunately, I’m injured and ran for the first time in three weeks yesterday. And today I’m hurting again so I won’t be running any races. Are you running? I’ve done the Rockies Run for the Homeless in the spring. Which race is this?

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  24. Awesome, awesome photo! You look like an Amazon woman and you make the race look like cake!
    Hope you’re taking good care of your injured self now.
    – C.K.

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    • Thank you, Carolyn. I felt like an Amazon in the training group with all those petite runners who were five inches shorter and twenty pounds lighter. 🙂
      The injury isn’t good (as opposed to, you know, the good kind. Doh) but I’m getting a massage tomorrow and hope that moves me in the right direction. I’m not a happy person when I can’t run.

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      • I’m hoping the massage works some magic for you, Tracy, so you can get your awesome Amazon self back in action!

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        • I feel so much better right now. I didn’t realize how much that tweaked my body to favor my left leg and hip. Yikes.
          Look out, trails, here I come! (Well, in the near future).

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  25. Awesome, awesome photo! You look like an Amazon woman and you make the race look like cake!

    Hope you’re taking good care of your injured self now.

    – C.K.

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  26. Lizzy! Thank you so much for sharing this with me. It’s an incredible story, just as I imagined (well, not the details but the awesomeness and courage involved). That’s so interesting about not having the memory of being surrounded by the guys but I believe that stuff happens when we’re so focused that we lose sight of everything around us. You were operating on sheer guts at that point and probably didn’t have an ounce of energy to give over to such trivialities. 🙂

    Many congratulations on your incredible feat. Wow. You’re an amazing person.

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  27. Thank you, Carolyn. I felt like an Amazon in the training group with all those petite runners who were five inches shorter and twenty pounds lighter. 🙂

    The injury isn’t good (as opposed to, you know, the good kind. Doh) but I’m getting a massage tomorrow and hope that moves me in the right direction. I’m not a happy person when I can’t run.

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  29. I feel so much better right now. I didn’t realize how much that tweaked my body to favor my left leg and hip. Yikes.

    Look out, trails, here I come! (Well, in the near future).

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