Fun with Tazzee and Singlema at the Sickle Cell 7K Race!

So this past Saturday, I attended the a 7K Race on the Atlanta's Southside.



Note: I didn't run the race. I attended the race. I don't run. I walk. And I walk super slow. So even though I've walked some 5Ks and 3Ks, it ain't my thang.

So I attended to support bloggers Tazzee and Singlema!

I've met Tazzee before. Went to her house and watched football with her and her peeps. I know she was like "That ladylee sure is quiet". Hell yeah I was. That was like meeting Janet Jackson or something. And I was told by a friend to behave myself, don't act a complete nut! lol

I'd never met Singlema. I was a tad bit nervous about that. I asked her for some advice last month, and she imparted some knowledge, and she was right. So you know that throws her on a pedestal. I thought that chick would be floating toward me in the race, kinda like the folks float down the street in a Spike Lee movie.

LOL!!

It was GREAT to meet her, and to see Janet Jackson, uh, I mean, Tazzee again!

I was EXCITED about going to this race. Not sure why. It was early on a Saturday morning, and I like to get my beauty sleep, but nevertheless I was looking forward to it. So much so that I went to the craft store a month ago and picked up some supplies for making posters!

I didn't like my signage that I made weeks ago and trashed some of it (this is usual for me until I get an idea of what I want to do).

So I came up with some signs, finally! And last Friday, everybody on my gubment job was all concerned about the gubment shutdown. Me and Oscar-Tyrone weren't concerned! We had bootleg praise service at the house that morning. We'd been running around the house hollering "God is my source! Er'thang else is a resource!!!". I happily went to work that day, and I brought my supplies in and worked on my signs when I had a break here and there.

Tazzee's avatar is the Tazmanian Devil (we prefer to call it the Tazmanian angel). i couldn't really get her avatar to print out big so we printed a bunch of small ones!

This sign screams excitement!



Hot pink and spiky! It made Tazzee want to RUN for real!

*tazzee frowning up thinking "What the heck is lee talking about?"*

Then this one... This was the first one I made. Couldn't figure out what to do with it, as I had ran out of the glitter glue...

But my cubicle mate, The Cowgirl Cre was terribly excited about the arrow. "LadyLee, you can hold it up in the air and it will let Tazzee know to "Run this way, Tazzee! Run this way!!!!"

LOL. I don't think it was hard for Tazzee to know she had to run for that finish line OR the direction she had to run in.

And then there were the big signs.



Cowgirl Cre was puzzled by Singlema's name. "You know, the way you got that written, all as one word, it looks like "Run Singleeema Run" Folk gonna be looking like What in the world, who name their child that??"

LOL!! Of course we broke out in the cubicle area with "Run Singleeeeema Run!!!"



Too Funny!

We had a HORRIBLE time printing out that Tazmanian Angel. Horrible! It was either to big, or the little ones. Ugh. But I posted it on a sign, along with SingleMa's avatar. And if they didn't know what to do, I made sure to print "RUN" somewhere on the sign.

And I'm ALWAYS hollering for Singlema to ***RUN Singlema RUN*** on twitter, so that was very befitting!

My cubicle mate Cowgirl Cre was EXTREMELY excited about all of this... especially when she saw me cutting out church fans...









One of my coworkers had a church fan from the essence music festival on his desk. I grabbed it up and did the outline for it. Like I said, Cowgirl Cre was excited about all the drawing and glitter work I was doing.

"Girl, if someone did this for me, I'd feel pretty special! I feel special just sitting here watching you do it, and I ain't even running in the race!!!"

*lee raising an eyebrow at Cowgirl Cre*

I didn't know what her problem was. She has known me for 15 years. She knows how much I like arts and crafts. I love stickers and drawing. Hell, she's the one who taught me to crochet! I've NEVER seen her all riled up.

Her boss came over and made some sarcastic remark. I wanted to holler "Dude, they bout to close this mothersucka down, and you worried about me drawing??? HA!"

He went on about his business, and I finished up my drawing and glittering. (Took plenty of soap to get all that stuff off of my skin, lol).

I actually made the church fans that night at home. Singlema's fan had a silver hologram backing. Tazzee's fan had a faux animal skin backing.

(Me and Cowgirl Cre got into a disagreement over the faux animal skin backing. She wanted me to go buy some journals and cover them with it. I was looking at her like O_O. NO WAY...)

I also made some cookies. Singlema was hollering about some cookies. I mailed her a dozen awhile ago, and she been lobbying on the sly for some every since. She likes the triple chocolate chip ones, so I made her a few.



I also made some for Tazzee, even though she didn't ask for any. (I was wondering... she's a bit... quiet concerning these cookies.) I think she's trying to watch the sweets intake. She gave me the hard side-eye when I gave them to her. I felt bad, man.

*lee groveling at Tazzee's feet (but there was NO way I was taking them back home with me. NERP. They would've sat on the counter and gone bad.)*

Next time, I'm gonna look in my fridge and hook her up with some of my favorite things... some fresh veggies, flax seeds, some psyllium seeds and some oat groats!

*Tazzee gives LadyLee the laser side-eye*

Now on to the race!

This race was sponsored by



This race had quite a few other sponsors, including one of the local TV stations.



There was a pre-race warmup out on the basketball court. That looked like fun! I wanted to get in on that, even though I wasn't running!



Then the runners lined up. I didn't get many pictures of them. I was too busy holding my signs up.

They took off down the road.

Then the walkers lined up and took off down the road.




I was standing around at the finish line, staring hard at the timeclock.



It had been 15 minutes. My eyes were stretched looking down the hill worried, wondering where Tazzee and Singlema were. Because I'd been telling Tazz to "Win that RACE!"

Told her to throw her elbows, knock some Ninjas down. WIN!

I didn't know if she would be quite able to do that. Her shin was bothering her. And Singlema was a bit crippled up at her knee. I should've bouught them some crutches! And I was contemplating going to find them and pick them up.

But really, no one had came in at the 15 minute mark. Not sure what made me think someone could run over 4 miles in 15 minutes flat. Uh, nope!

But at the 25 minute mark, there was a police siren signalling that someone was coming up the hill.

The winner of the race...



That dude came out of nowhere. He was stomping hard, running at full speed like his name was Forrest Gump!

I almost expeted him to holler in a Forrest Gump voice...

"Where Ever I went, I WAS RUNNING!"

Here's the female winner. She was running hard too.



I'm digging those bright green running shoes. Those were hot!

I had soooooo much fun cheering for people coming up around that corner! That was fun. But I got worried! Where were Tazzee and Singlema?

Their friend ran this race, and she was running with her son in a sports baby stroller. She ran it in less than 30 minutes! I wish I would've made her a sign too. But she's about to start training for a 50 mile race. O_o. So I guess that was a good workout for her, pushing that baby in that stroller all 4 miles. And she was running HARD too. Like she was running from the police or something. Go Girl!!

Then I saw Tazzee and Singlema coming up the hill and around the bend... I was hollering and waving my sign hard. They didn't see me! They were smiling and focusing on that finish line!

I was so happy for them that I fanned them with their church fans! lol

I talked with them for a minute and walked on back towards the gym. I saw an interesting sign on the fence.

When you finish the race? This sign reminds you to go on by Popeyes on Camp Creek!



They got that $2.99 2 piece dark meat special with the medium drank. You can't beat that!

Man, I had sooooo much fun, just walking around talking to people and cheering. That was waaaay too much excitement early on a Saturday morning. A great way to spend my Saturday morning.

I talked to them for a few minutes and headed on out. My car was a good half mile away, so I got a workout of my own, lol... I grew up on that side of town, so I went to the nearby fish house, Fulton Bay Seafood and got some croakers and raided their vegetable stand... Then I went to Home Depot to yell at them about my lawn mower, lol.

Then I went home and crashed. Too much excitement in one day for me!

I had fun! But I think the joy for me was watching Tazz and Singlema reach their goal and finish their race.

It will always be a reminder to me finish my own life races...

Congratulations ladies! Singlema - it was great meeting you! And it was good seeing you again, Tazzee!

Ya'll let an Oldgirl know when the next race is!

I'll be there with Church fans and signs... cheering you on :)