Last night the dogs went on an epic playing spree that involved Huck getting the zoomies and running full speed around the house several times. Full speed for a puppy is hilarious because they still have that bouncy hop-run thing going. Of course as soon as I got my phone to video it, he was done. Anyway, that caused him to sleep hard - went to bed around 10 and he slept nonstop until 2! Up twice more between then and getting up at 5:30, but overall an excellent night of sleeping!

Last night I did make it to the hill workout with my baby runners and ran a little over 4 miles, so combined with my morning run got in just under 13 for the day. After we had a woman talk about stretching and then she took us through stretching so I didn't get home until 8. Trying to figure out what the fastest thing I could make for dinner on the drive home, then got here and saw the text from DH reminding me his cycling buddy that moved to Dallas earlier this year was in town and a bunch of them were meeting up after the ride, so dinner for me became cereal, hooray!

Damaris, congrats on the work award dealio and happy anniversary! Hope dinner was nice last night. Isn't it your birthday this week as well?

Cathy, nice pre-dawn run yesterday. Yes, since you beat the storms anyway, probably for the best that you couldn't see the sky/bad weather. I noticed in Tupelo the hills seemed bigger in daylight than they did in the dark.

Lisa, so did you talk at the slam thingy? I saw on fb you compared it to forensics - which made me wonder if you were secretly judging them all.

Kathryn, that does sound a little overwhelming, but it is also pretty freaking awesome that you have so much work potential. Oh, and Huckles got over being yelled at - he pooped four times yesterday. All outside.

Elina, great job on the race and great takeaways. And thanks for calling me a damn good coach, that makes me smile.

Morning!

Hi Lisa!!

Karen, glad the pup pooped, and outside!!  I can imagine him bopping around all awkwardly.

Lizzie, nice run.  Sounds like a good day with HCF, he is a keeper...    I don't know if my work leads are very promising.  There might be some interest, but honestly, not enough to keep things going OK as is...

Sitting here waiting for my coffee to sit for a few and then go shove down a bagel.  Also for my slight headache to pass.  Then...  I am heading out.  My goal is a "longer" run, but ya never know with me.  Hey, I ran a half 10ish days ago, I can stay out for a bit.

Work was SWAMPED last night.  Wow.  I had one good tech who saved the day, cause the main one sucks.  She is slow and oblivious.

Mostly right now I am frittering time away till my tummy and head are ready to head out...

Happy When-D's day.  I saw Wendy's first and thought of burgers first thing.

K

Morning.  I got the migraine back during the dinner. Almost choked on the steak (not that being a vegetarian 99% of the time helped with the choking on the steak but it was delicious). Anyway, woke up feeling better but my BP is high again.  I need to research if migraines can cause the BP to rise or vice versa.  Whichever it is can suck it and just go away, thanks.  Anyway, back to the second BP med tonight and hoping that helps.  I actually wondered if the pharmacy gave me the wrong pills since this started happening right after I started the new bottle, but alas, it is the pill that says it is.

7 with 3 X 1 mile @ 5K tonight.

Lisa, keep bumping.

Karen, awwww.  Puppy running is funny indeed.  Yes, my birthday is tomorrow.

Liz, nice MP run.

Kat, hoping the tummy and the head allowed you to go out.

Diane, I hate that!  The perfume abuser brigade makes me want to puke in the elevator sometimes.

Congratulations Elina on such a good race.

Cathy nice DD scored the winning goals.

Damaris with my migraines my BP was through the roof. My Graves also causes high BP and both have contributed to my kidney disease.

6 easy miles this morning, only about 60 but humid enough so that I was very sweaty.  We're supposed to get up in the 80's again tomorrow, then drop into the 60's over the weekend.  Hopefully that will be it for summer!    Younger DD starts 5th grade cross country next week, they changed the program though so it's only about 4 weeks of practice then one meet in mid October.  Oh well, I guess it's good practice for next year!  And for DD's last trail race.  She's excited about finally being able to run CC.

Hi Lisa!  Glad you are bumping along.    I had to look up Moth Slam.  Sounds interesting!

Karen, so it sounds like you need to get Huck to do this epic workout every night before bed.    Nice miles yesterday!

Lizzie, nice MP run!  This "in-between" weather is OK for me, I am not in a huge hurry for the cold air, it will be here soon enough.    Sounds like a nice day off yesterday!  I guess DD's primary motivation to race is the bling, and she already got the Winter Series medal and first, so why do it again?  

Kat, enjoy the run!

Diane, reminds me of the health club that I went to back in the 90's, where women would put makeup on before working out!  Glad you are feeling better!

Damaris, I hope switching the meds helps.  Good luck with the speedwork!

Sue, wow, sounds like quite the procedure to get rid of the termites!

Elina, congrats on the elevation/pregnancy/post FB game-adjusted HM PR!    What are the odds of getting the exact same time to the second?  Not so odd to plan the next one already.    That does sounds like the perfect race for you!

Cathy

Tuesday I started out with a 35 minute run when the fog lifted. After stretches I walked 1.5 miles. I wasn’t tired at all after the run. Walking tires me a lot.

Today I plan a nice trail run. I think we may go and do volunteer work at the library either today or tomorrow. Friday will be a return to the classes I usually sign up for.

Happy runs, All! 

Just a hot, slow, sweaty 5 miles for me. Temps in the mid-80s, dew point mid-70s. Right now they say we could get our first overnight low below 70 degrees (what we call "fall" here) at the end of next week. I can do this for one more week. This morning DH was telling me the guy that he hung out with last night that moved to Dallas  invited them all up to his house for a weekend of riding up there sometime "in the next few weeks." I said it better not be October 6-7 because that's my marathon that I told him about in May when I signed up and several times since so if it was, he couldn't go unless he took the puppy. He said okay, plus that wouldn't be a good weekend anyway because he's traveling for work the following week. I think he was a little surprised how quickly and forcefully  I jumped on that.....I spend all day every day with just these two dogs right now, we are not even going to consider something going on for him the one weekend I get away!

I keep forgetting I want to report back on the probiotics I started taking about a month ago. I've been eating the same, running about the same or a little less, and the last few days I've noticed a couple pairs of shorts are looser in the waist than they have been, so I weighed myself and I'm down about 4 pounds, and just 2 pounds over race weight. Imma keep taking them.

Liz, I am praying for that weather by the end of next week.Hey, at least tomorrow is your Friday!

kat, 8 is still legit mileage! We have another week or so of miserable, although next week looks a little less miserable because we may get rain to keep the temps down a bit.

Diane, can't stand the smell of too much perfume - good you were able to get out as soon as you could.

Damaris, I hope you figure out the right combo of BP meds soon. Sorry about the migraine, but glad it was short lived.

Susan, oh man on the termite fix. That sounds like a total pain. Joys of home ownership......

Lori, who here hasn't binged on a bag of chips before? We have started putting some chips in a bowl and putting the bag right back in the pantry, because if the bag comes over to the couch, it will leave empty.

Cathy, I am excited DD gets to start cross country next week! Is that weird? That will be good practice/training for the last 5k in the series so she can hold onto first place.

Ginny, Riley was instigating. Huck would slow down and Riley would get him going again with a toy. I'm struggling with my mojo right now too. It's hot out, I'm not sleeping as much as I'd like, I'm stuck spending way too much time at home.

Judy, enjoy the time volunteering. Have you told us which class you're taking this time around? And if you did, I don't remember, so can you tell us again?