Hi all.

Six miles done at easy pace. Cold here, but sunny with no wind. There were a lot of runners out on the path doing penance after Thanksgiving feasts.

We are putting up the Christmas tree today.

Hi all.

 

Six miles done at easy pace. Cold here, but sunny with no wind. There were a lot of runners out on the path doing penance after Thanksgiving feasts.

 

We are putting up the Christmas tree today.

LOL@doing penance after Thanksgiving feasts.  Thankfully at least there wasn't any wind.   Yay@ putting up the tree!

Thanks, Mitch.  I just got talked to my friend.  The her mom won't hold on much longer, so wants me to wait until the memorial service to come up.  

Sorry to hear that, Cherie.

Ew, She Can. Sorry.

RD for me. I spent way too much on groceries today. Meeting and dinner with my friends tonight, and then I think I'm going to take myself to Catching Fire.

Have a great Black Friday everyone.

The deal with the race tomorrow is that I'm doing it as a favor to my aunt and uncle. My uncle is a cancer survivor and they're very active in their chapter of ACS. Their chapter is putting on this race as a fundraiser. The course isn't certified and I have a feeling it will NOT be accurate (it says 1.5 mile out and back course on one of their listings, and "5K (3.2 miles)" on another, and nowhere does it claim USTAF certification....so I have a feeling it may either be 3 miles or 3.2 miles based on the info they've provided) and planned Thanksgiving as my PR attempt and this race just for fun. But after missing my PR on Thanksgiving I'm hungry for a redo. But race effort again with only a day in between may be asking too much of my body. So I'm just gonna run. My body will tell me if a PR attempt is inside me tomorrow or not.

Well, Dan,  you could always run nekkid.  It's not like we're all THAT cold for weather in Texas.

Good luck with your holiday tree, Robert!   Finding it yourself in the woods or whatever, or getting it from a lot?

Enjoy the family time, Stone Fence and the running!  And the food too, of course.  Dang, I ate waaay too much yesterday after my turkey trot. And it's only me and Gail, we have no family here in the local area.  But we still managed to scarf down a fair amount of food, lol.

Bin, did you celebrate Thanksgiving with us and eat lots of turkey there in Singapore?  Can you even get turkey in Singapore?

Congrats on your miles, PAD!  What do you mean, 'almost there'...are you lost out there?

WARM UP to 30?!!!   Jerry, I have a 4-letter word for where you are:  M-O-V-E!

Hope you had a nice gym workout, Lauren!

Good luck to your hubby, Damaris with his first half!    Enjoy your full and don't sweat the small stuff, just kick back, run, and enjoy, keep your sense of humor, and take whatever comes in stride (no pun intended).  No doubt in my mind you are going to be your usual capable self in getting this done!

I dunno, Jack, even going out just for groceries can probably be crazy today, with all the nut jobs on the road traveling around to all the stores looking for deals...probably driving a bit crazy too, to make sure they don't miss anything, sheesh...

Dang, Cherie, so sorry about the news of your friend's family.  Good thoughts for your friend and her family.  Cancer just sucks!  I always consider myself SO lucky that mine was caught SO early.  Congrats on getting some miles in today.

a lot of runners out on the path doing penance...  ok, Phillie, this made me laugh...but heck, I should probably be out there myself, after all I ate yesterday.  Naaaaaa, I'll just wait and do my two 5Ks over the weekend.    So is the tree up now?  Where's the photo?    I have to live vicariously through y'all for the tree thing.  We've tried to put up a real tree in the past, but with 4 cats, it invariably does not take long before it comes crashing down.  So now we just use a very little artificial one that we can put on a table.  The cats don't take much interest in the artificial one.

BIL hit our car in the driveway...  On purpose, Zelanie?  He's not a fan of you being married to his brother?  Gee, if getting your car hit is some 'nice family time', then  I hate to think what 'bad family time" is for you!  

Sounds like a plan, Kristin, just run and take it mile by mile and see how you feel.  Have fun!  I will think of you tomorrow while I am out on my 5K route and send you some good vibes.   Of course, with the time difference, by the time I'm on my course (8:30 a.m. start time, Texas time) you'll probably already be done.  So I'll send you some good vibes during my pre-race time.   Give your uncle from me all the best, one survivor to another, the more of us the better!   I probably won't live long enough to see it, but someday, someone IS going to find a cure for this damn disease!

 

Good luck with your holiday tree, Robert!   Finding it yourself in the woods or whatever, or getting it from a lot?

 

We got one from a tree farm.  Picked it out and cut it down ourselves.

It's the first tree we've put up in 5 years.  A lot of family confusion all but ruined the holidays for us for years and now we've decided to let them have their confusion and just do our own thing.