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I REALLY needed a break today. The boys started fighting the minute they woke up and Jones’ swim instructor didn’t show up for his 8 am class. By 9:30 am, I’d had it. The sitter arrived at 2:30 and I headed out for an easy 4 mile run. I didn’t even take Garmin along. I…

My legs were starting to get tight by the end of the 15 miles, so I thought I’d be pretty sore today. While there is a bit of soreness there and I think I’d be really uncomfortable if I ran, I’m actually not in bad shape. We took the kids to the county fair yesterday,…

Nancy set up this nice virtual race on a date that I couldn’t resist. I like cool numbers. I have one kid whose birthday is a binary palindrome and Beer Geek’s birthday is in the pattern 123123 (he’d not be pleased with me sharing the actual date LOL). What can I say, I’m a geek…

Yesterday I had an awesome four mile run. I wasn’t in the mood to do it, but Jess managed to run in the heat, so felt like I needed to get out there. The temperature was actually reasonable here and there was a nice breeze. I wore my garmin, but only used it for mileage…

The sitter got here around 2:30 this afternoon and I headed out for a 7 mile run. It was warm and humid, but not as bad as some days. I had my fuel belt, but I discovered right before my run that I was out of “ade”, so I packed water and some shot blocks,…

Not my running standards. I ran a nice 4 miler on the treadmill today in 35:36. However, I am apparently lowering my personal appearance standards (and some might say my personal hygiene LOL). Today we dropped Jones at art camp for an hour and a half. Shoo went down for a nap relatively quickly, leaving…

I’ve been worrying for a few weeks now about this week. Beer Geek goes out of town later in the week and Jones is only in an art class for an hour and a half a day. This leaves very little time (with drop off, pickup, drive time) to get Shoo down for a nap,…

This morning when I headed out at 6:30am, it was around 70 degrees, cloudy, and barely sprinkling. Absolutely perfect running weather. A little cooler would not have been a problem, but I was quite happy with the lack of sunniness. I ran 14 miles in 2:27:26 ish, so an average of 10:32 per mile. When…

101 miles run in July = my highest number ever in a month40 pushups = the number of pushups I did yesterday as part of the challenge. Real pushups even, but I did have the 90 second breaks in between.13 days until we head back to my parents = breaks for me and going running…

Before I got on the treadmill today, I was in a horrid mood. Shoo slept horribly again last night, I think because he was overtired from not napping for four days. Jones woke me out of a sound sleep at 8, so obviously I didn’t hit the treadmill this morning. It’s that witchy time of…

I need to go to bed. I’ve been tired all day (thanks to a 2 or more hour hang out with Shoo around 4am), but I had almost zero kid free time all day and right now, quiet trumps sleep. I had a really good, but very hot, run yesterday. I did 7 miles in…

Today marks the beginning of Week 7 of training. I ran 4 miles in 36:50 on the treadmill today. Not a bad time since I got on the treadmill five minutes after I rolled out of bed. It looks like most of my runs may be on the treadmill this week. I’m still trying to…