My dad loves these hats so much, his best friend has given him one in every color, but I started knitting him hats to wear to my races to mix up life a little bit. He wears these hats everywhere, so I had to knit him a bunch of hats to compete with his friend. My dad’s best friend’s son is always so jealous that my dad gets the hat every year, he needed to get his own hat club membership, it was really funny. The best thing that ever happened to him… One year I got to pick between the blue hat and the black hat, and I picked the blue hat, because it reminded me of Barbie's car. I wonder if someone's son wanted me to pick black instead of blue, but I really wanted the blue that year…Purple is always a favorite, because it’s the Holy Cross color, everyone was really jealous of the purple. We also have orange like SU, and beige to match everything. All the good colors from the past ten years are mine.

Hats always look nice paired with an Irish knit cardigan sweater or swarovski tennis bracelet, and puppies love Irish knit sweaters even when they are sandy from playing on the beach. It reminds me of how I miss playing lacrosse on the beach in the sand, maybe sandy puppies like lacrosse too. 😊🍀

This race was freezing, but I become so hot when I run, I did most of the marathon in a sports-bra. I always put my race bib on my sports-bra. Then, I can take my race t-shirt off and it’s not a big deal, maybe eight miles into the event.