Hi. Life with the baby is going as well as can be expected. Still searching for a routine that works. Running is sporadic at best but I'm getting out there when I can.

The awkard lifeguard on Monday asked me if I "lived with my parents"... I don't know if that was his weird way of flirting with me or not, but it was a bit strange considering my 29th birthday is Saturday.

Well now, sapf, this just begs for you to post a photo now so we can see if you look as young as all the other ladies here do...and also they all lie about their age..personally, I think none of them is over 35...     I'm the only person here who IS old and looks it. 

Zelanie, since I'm not a 'racer' anymore and now strictly a fun-runner these days I can be very 'loose and unstructured' with all the runs I do, lol. So I just try to have as much fun out there as possible.  If that means stopping once in a while to play with a butterfly, so be it!  He/she (it?) was one cool butterfly too.  I decided to 'give chase' to it for a few moments and zig-zagged all along as I followed its weaving path.  Then I stood stock-still and held my hand out straight and still...and after a minute or two it came and landed on the top of my hand and stayed there for a few seconds...as if it were studying me as I was studying it, lol.  Then it was off through the trees and I resumed my run and restarted my run/walk timer.  Fun stuff! 

From Jerry yesterday:  Scotty, is SA trying to get off the most unfit city list?

That is exactly what they are doing, lol.  It annoyed the crap out of our Mayor that Austin, only an hour up the road from us was listed as one of the most fit cities and we were just about, if not all the way ranked at the top, of the most UNFIT cities, and have been for several years.

So the 'greenway trail building' program began a few years ago and now we have connecting trails that go all over the place for lots and lots of miles; which, of course, was loved by we folks who have been runners the whole time; hell, we tried to get the city to do this years ago and it was always 'no, too expensive' or there were higher priorities, etc.  I guess a few years of bad publicity goes a long ways, lol.

Then the city-wide fitness program began with making all these different types of events available, and once a month on a Sunday our city closes one of our downtown main streets to traffic all day - it's called the Siclovia event - and people can go out on that street and run, walk, bike, rollerblade, whatever their choice of exercise is.

It's all good but I don't know if we will make the healthy city list, ever.  We have a population that has one of the highest rate of diabetes in the nation and, of course, the majority of restaurants here are not exactly the healthiest food places since Texans love their Mexican, Tex-Mex, and beef/steak dishes.  But it is getting better little by little and at least now the effort is being made.

7.3 on the TM.

Did you get my email with your captains included?  Hope you enjoy being part of a team!

 

Oh yes, thank you!!!  I just answered them.  :-)   I'm just slow sometimes.  And I think you're right, maybe this is just what I need to find my mojo again.

I love being on a team.  It makes me run what I have planned (so that they don't kill me).