Calf injury anniversary - what a difference a year makes!

It was one year ago this week that I tore my calf muscle. It was a long slow recovery, but I'm happy to say that I ran 10 miles on Saturday and all is well.
Our B'ham fit training run was from Zuanich park on Saturday, as I was running up a hill I saw a large group of walkers coming towards me and was pleasantly surprised to see Djan (her blog: http://djanstewart.blogspot.com/) in their midst. I haven't seen her since I left the Trailblazer hiking group. I yelled a quick "hello", and thought I heard a reply. That was a fun moment during the run. My husband started an hour after me and I met him about 1/2 way back on the return of our route. So another bright spot!
After my run I jumped in the car and drove to Snohomish and picked up my 3 grand daughters and then drove on to Sequim to watch my dad run the North Olympic Discovery marathon. He finished 1st in the 75 & up division. He ran 5 hrs. 42 min.'s and 07 sec.'s. So proud of him and his accomplishments. Here's a link of his run last year with some nice pictures of the course and area -http://hearsdifferentdrummer.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-dad-marathon-man-north-olympic.html
He's also training to run 80 miles on his 80th birthday this coming November. You can read his training blog at this link - http://runningforeighty.blogspot.com/

    Grand daughters Ruby and Skylar running near the finish with my dad!

Kayaking at Fazon lake

Such a nice day today I decided to load my kayak in the van and go for a paddle! You can just see our van and the launch site across the lake.

There are lily pads around most of the shoreline. They were almost ready to bloom. I'll need to go back and get pictures when they do, an interesting thing about the lily pads - they are attached to these big bog roots. Up close they look like the outer part of a pineapple to me.

Nice view of Mt. Baker in the distance.

Thought I'd take a picture of my view from my kayak and then me!