Midget Twins DAUMinate Sunrise 10k

(First let me just clarify that Em came up with the title for this one)

Saturday, August 20th, 2011. A day like most any other. But this, this was no ordinary Saturday. On this day, our own Emily Daum and Liz Eder took to the streets of Alamo Heights to dominate the Sunrise 10k. Here's a picture of the aforementioned domination in progress from the start:

Start of the race

Emily came in at 36:27, and Lizzie followed soon after in 36:57. I ran this race myself 3 years ago, so I speak from experience when I say it is a painful, painful race. They start it pretty early, 7:30am, but there's no getting around the fact that it's still August. In South Texas. And then there are the hills. Lots of them. Just when you think you're done with them, the course takes a turn and oh look, there's another one. So I'm very impressed with where those two are so far. They both ran within 30 seconds of their personal bests, off of base training, on a course that's at least that much slower than a flat race, so I'd say things are going pretty well. I look forward to someday maybe taking them to some pancake-esque race with nice, cool weather, to hopefully make up for what could not have been a very pleasant last 2 miles.

Yes, they got matching sports bras...girls.

Winners!

We also have a new teammate. Amy Shackelford! She just graduated from SFA and is in the physical therapy program at the UT Health Science Center here in San Antonio. She was an NCAA DI Regional qualifier in the 10k and has impressive PR's of 35:08 for 10k and 16:52 for 5k. We're all really excited to have another great runner added to our crazy bunch.

Team-iness! Awwwwwwwww

Next race up is the Labor Day 5 Miler on September 5th, where Em and I both won last year. Unfortunately this year the competition will be a little heavier on the guys' side, as our very own Chass Armstrong will be making his season debut. As long as one of us takes home the bottle of wine, I'm happy, because I know Chass...he'll share.