Day 7, Week 10: My favorite race medals

Here's my workout today (Cathe's Total Body Giant Sets) in three pictures:

Yoga balls used for upper body weights.

Barbells, glorious barbells.

And dogs that sleep in your workout area.

Rather than drone on and on about my love of the weight lifting and barbells, I thought I would use this post to show off some of my favorite race medals.  The idea came to me as I was fretting about hitting my time goal at my goal race coming up (BMW Dallas Marathon).  I told myself even if I don't hit my goal time, I still have to finish to collect the race bling.  And then I wondered if the bling was any good.  And then I had the idea for this post.  So, here goes, in no particular order:

Austin Marathon 2017:  Belt buckle medal.  'Nuff said.

Glass City Marathon 2014 (Toledo, OH): Marathon PR set at this race (4:09:50).

Little Rock Marathon 2016: Big ass medal.

Glass City Marathon 2017: Hellloooooo Ohio!

Lincoln Presidential Half Marathon (Springfield, IL): Freaking huge pennies!

Ragnar Double Medal - Saints & Sinners 2014: Got this by running Wasatch Back Ragnar and Las Vegas Ragnar in the same year.  I mean, c'mon--give it up for the cool upside-down design.

Ragnar Adirondacks 2016 Second Place Medal:  I was on an ultra team that won second in the Mixed Ultra category.  Almost First indeed.

BigFoot Olympic Distance Triathlon:  This is not the fanciest medal I own.  But it is the one of which I am most proud because I survived the swim.  I haven't done a triathlon since.

If anyone knows of any other races with cool bling, feel free to share so I can sign up and get some myself.  Because we all really know it's not about completing the distance and feeling that warm fuzzy sense of accomplishment - it's getting the cool medal at the end of the race that matters most.  (Not really.  Well, maybe just a little.)

End of post.  Time for learnings:

• I get a lot of weight training goodness accomplished in my living room.  You gotta use the space you have.
• I am completely used to dogs in the workout area.  If one doesn't wander through I feel as if my workout is incomplete.
• If I'm struggling in a marathon, the bling always pulls me through to the end.

Tomorrow's workout: Another rainy long run.  15 miles at 15 seconds slower that marathon pace.  Here's to hoping that actually happens.