footloose

Went for a run around the neighborhood tonight.  I was going to go to the gym, but why do the treadmill when you can run outside!  So I went around the loop in the hood and my freakin' good foot started to hurt.  Now the loop has a downhill and obviously an uphill...not a lot of flat.  I stopped and did some stretching trying to stretch out the arch in my foot and my calf.  Please oh please do not let it be plantar fasciitis!  I had that last year in the other foot and it was horrible!  So I did two miles and then stopped at the house and picked up Riley and ran 2 more miles on some flat areas in the apartment complex next door.  The foot felt much better on the flat surface.  So I am hoping that stretching it a few times a day will help.  I have been noticing that my calf has been really tight lately,so I am guessing that didn't help the foot either.

On another note my pictures came back from Cherry Blossom.  I finally sucked it up and just bought the lot of them on a cd.  What a freakin' racket that is!  The shipping and handling was over 10 dollars!  Really you just burn the stupid pictures to a cd and mail them..not that hard.  Heck you could just email them to me and save postage too...but oh well, chalk it up to memories. 

Here are some of the pictures:

I was mocking the super happy girl that kept asking me in her cheerleader voice if I was going to run Cherry Blossom next year...Of course I am!!

Happy to be finished smile

Hey look at me!

How do you get a nice race picture??

So here is the question for everyone...any secrets on how to get a nice picture while running?  The Cherry Blossom 10 miler is coming up along with my half marathon the following weekend and I would like a running picture where I don't look:
a. fat (ok nobody can help that look)
b. in pain
c. horrible
d. a combo of a,b and c

The first time I ran the Cherry Blossom I tried the don't look at the camera guy technique..it didn't work too well.  Then the following year I tried oh I see the camera guy I will smile like I am enjoying this run.  I was so excited to see those pictures....then I was wondering what happened to my nice smiling pictures???  Then I had the run where I was sick and just wanted to be done and never saw the camera guy or really cared about the camera guy...in every instance I looked horrible!  This year I would love, love, love a nice picture. 

Anyone have a great pictures that they have had from a race?  Any ideas on what I can do to get a nice race picture..maybe I could do the two thumbs up every time I see them...I am willing to try anything lol.