you go visit your parents’ house and, in addition to the toothbrush, contact solution and other toiletries you keep there, you find a Gu, running clothes, and three! pairs of running shoes. Yesterday, dad and I went out for an awesome 7 mile run. I finished in 1:08:48, which is an average of a 9:50…
Mental health run
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…
Less sore than I thought I’d be
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,…
8 miles on 08-08-08
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…
Random Friday stuff
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…
Six word running memoir
This week’s Take it and Run Thursday is to write a six word running memoir. I didn’t run much until college, but my running fits into four distinct periods. Running off the beer and wine. Yeah, that was my college running. It was all about running on the weekdays so I could drink what I…
Well, that was unpleasant
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,…
Lowering my standards
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…
One week at a time
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,…
Perfect running weather
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…
101miles, 40 pushups, 13 days, 10 hours
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…
I didn’t think there were enough miles in the world
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…