Grover's Commercial & Long Run

Thank you everyone for your kind words and thoughts- that means alot!! Did a commercial last night for Grover's Plumbing, a local plumbing and electrical store. It started at 6 o clock at night, so I had to take the night off work. During the day Tuesday it was a beautiful sunny day so I did a morning ride from the club to the I-205 bridge (top picture) down Marine drive and over the I-5 bridge and back to the club for 32.2 miles with a 16.8 average. There were four of us and we did a paceline on Marine drive for awhile. Then Tuesday night got to Grover's store and the first shot was a crane shot of the parking lot with all the extras either going into or out of the store. I was paired with a really pretty girl as a married couple carrying an attic ventilator to my Jeep. We were right in line with the camera the whole time in the shot. We made up a story for ourselves- we'd been married seven years and met in the west side tunnel during a rush hour traffic jam. Rolled down the windows and started talking and ended up going to a bar downtown and that led to etc. At first we were going home to install the ventilator, by the 6th take we were going home to have a barbecue instead with chicken and grilled corn on the cob. 10 or so takes later we were done with that shot. While they were setting up the next shot we went back to extras holding and they had a great food spread set up. There was a news truck across the parking lot set up with the antenna up, so my "wife" and I walked over to see what was going on- it turned out to be a rash of dumpster burnings in the area- the guy said there had been four of them. When we walked back to the store everyone was gone from the holding area- so we went in and got set up in the next shot just in time. We were in the back looking at some foam spray, then the director came back and said to take a break he would use us as the water heater couple later. So we went and talked and watched two more scenes film before it was our turn. Then they let almost everyone else go except two extras for our scene. We became featured talent! We were a couple walking along looking at water heaters while a clerk described them. The director said it was a tight shot so he wanted us to get closer- so I was forced to walk with my arm around her, the things I do for art. They had two extras walk across behind us and we did maybe 7 or 8 takes and that was a wrap for us. She was married in real life of course so that was that.
Sunday I did my longest run ever with coach Denise and another guy. We went from the club and down to LaCamas lake which has a trail around it and away from the lake down a trail that goes by a waterfall. There are some pretty good hills in the route and after about 7-8 miles I couldn't talk much anymore and just concentrated on going forward. Ended up doing 11.75 miles at a 9:31 pace- I think I started out too fast for a long run- anyway this Sunday scheduled for a 13 mile run.

Last Wednesday I did a local running club's 3 mile race at Frenchman's Bar park. Ran it in 23:31 for a 7:50 pace. Tonight I will take some leave and do the run again and the team will be there and have a cookout afterwards. I have to go to work now and can't access Blogger at work anymore, so either tonight or tomorrow I will start commenting again- thank you all for your support!!