Permanent Race Commemoration Idea

To celebrate the fact that I completed my first marathon and to officially and appropriately commemorate the experience, I’m getting a tattoo. duh. It appears as though I am not alone in doing such a thing as several Google searches have lead me to various forum threads, pictures, and magazine articles celebrating running tattoos.




I’ve pretty much narrowed it down to the following design:

I KID. My arms are nowhere near being muscular enough to pull something like that off. Not my style.

Here is what I’m thinking:
However I’m having some problems deciding on placement.

Do I want it here, like Katy Perry? I’m leaning more towards no; however, someday I’d like to put a tattoo here. I just don’t think this particular design would work in that area.


I’m thinking something more so along these lines:

But on the outside of my left foot. I'm almost 99% set on this spot.
I also really love this idea:

However, I’d get much cuter, smaller, girlier wings. They’d make me supa fast.
I’m thinking next Sunday (May 1st) is D-day. Or T-day. (T being for tattoo).
snicker snicker.
I'm doing my first 5K next weekend so maybe I'll just go after that.


I currently have a rather nice collection of tattoos. Here they are in order of oldest to newest.

1. Snowflake. Drawn by yours truly. Shop: Anchorage Tattoo Studio (aka Larry Allen) - Anchorage, AKArtist: Mason (aka THE MAN)Date: Winter 2005


2. Heart wrist tattoo. Also drawn by me. Shop: Ink Slingers - Jacksonville, NC Artist: Can't rememberDate: Winter 2006


3. Big dipper. The Alaska state flag. Shop: 808 Tattoo - Kaneohe, HIArtist: RonnieDate: Spring 2007 (it's been touched up since)


4. I like to call this one my "garden". It took about 6.5 hours to complete and cost a million dollars.Shop: Hart and Huntington - Waikiki, HIArtist: CoreyDate: Summer, 2009


5. Forget-me-not, the Alaska state flower. This little gem was $45! It's on my stomach (lower left side)Shop: 808 Tattoo - Kaneohe, HIArtist: RonnieDate: Summer 2009


6. Anchor, located on the inside of my left ankle. It has numerous meanings to me, but it’s a design off of a harmonica my grandpa gave me when I was little. Shop: Anchor Ink - Salt Lake City, UTArtist: DomDate: October, 2010.



More to come...plus some actual running this week I hope!!