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This Tuesday was my day to work at Shoo’s preschool, so instead of a blissful five hours to myself, I got to change diapers and clean up messes for 12 2 year olds. (Boy am I glad my kids potty trained early, I so don’t miss the diapers.) Then, today was Jones’ field trip at…

but it really didn’t feel like it. I ran 12 miles in 2:01:37. It was extremely hilly and various body parts were not playing nicely. I had tummy issues that were bad enough that I considered asking a homeless guy where the nearest bathroom was. I figured he’d know where the public ones were (gotta…

Yesterday, I woke up at 5:30am, planning to hit the road just before 7 for a 12 mile run. Unfortunately, Shoo woke up at 6:00am and took a while to get back to sleep. By the time I was free to go, it was close to 7:00am and I still hadn’t had my coffee. And…

Today was a crazy busy day and tomorrow and Saturday will not be much better. Shoo and I walked Jones to school, walked to the Courthouse to vote, walked to the bookstore to pick up the “favors” for Jones’ birthday party, and then walked home – about 5 miles total. Then we jumped in the…

Today was a crazy busy day and tomorrow and Saturday will not be much better. Shoo and I walked Jones to school, walked to the Courthouse to vote, walked to the bookstore to pick up the “favors” for Jones’ birthday party, and then walked home – about 5 miles total. Then we jumped in the…

The MCM ends with a run up the hill to Iwo Jima. One of my IRL runner friends has been hounding me to run it, just so I know the hill and so it doesn’t intimidate me at the end. Iwo Jima is almost exactly three miles from my house, so I figured it would…

Today was a really good running day. It was beautiful. Cool with absolutely no humidity and a very light breeze. I headed out of my house around 1, knowing I needed to pick up Shoo at 2:30. I started out going downhill and did the first mile in 8:57. I figured I’d be slowing down…

Tonight I went to an information session at a LRS about the Marine Corps Marathon. The director of the race was there and I learned a few useful things about the race. The director was pretty interesting and most of the questions were of interest to me. There were a couple of people there that…

Yesterday, after Jones’ soccer game (where he totally rocked!), we headed over to our usual Oktoberfest/beer festival. It quickly became apparent it was going to be packed (because the weather was awesome) and that most of the attendees were considerably younger than us old farts. Despite having seen some info on “kid activities”, we didn’t…

I ran my 3rd 20 mile run today. It took me 3 hours and about 32 minutes with no bathroom stop. It felt really good until about mile 17 and then it was a bit of a struggle, but I did manage to do the last mile in under 11 minutes. I am so glad…

Call your mommy. Yesterday, Beer Geek informed that his annual fall conference would start (you guessed it) the day of the MCM. Yeah, just what I wanted to hear. He normally leaves around 2 pm to get to it, but I’m not even sure I’ll be done running by then. Thankfully, he is willing to…

On the schedule this morning was a 12 mile run. I was so not in the mood for it. With only 29 days until the marathon, apparently I’m just done right now. Not exactly a good time to be tired of running LOL. It stormed a lot last night and was still raining a bit…