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Hi Ladies!! Quick check in from me...

Have ran every day this week (shorter miles) and added various strength training throughout the week. I am due for a rest day which I  intend to take this weekend. A full 100% rest day. The everyday running has really helped my mental health this week LOL. To say the LEAST!

I have been swamped at work. We got pushed an initiative on Tuesday at 6pm for keys. I had to go around to over 30 branches and pick up keys the past two days for a new janitorial cleaning vendor who is starting Sept 1. It should have been planned better because when I first started going out, the sites didn't even know I was coming. I have driven over 500 miles in 2 days. Today, I have to drive about an hour to meet the vendor and hand over the keys. I am beyond exhausted and just need a break. How much can 1 person take? We are merging on Sept 1 and I understand that's why its so crazy right now, but they also thinned our team out..A LOT. They also have us starting a new work order system and new invoicing system as well on Sept 1. They should have planned this better.

Karen - Glad that Laura missed you!! We had some sites in Lake Charles that were impacted.

Talk with everyone later.  On the road again...

Morning! I am sniffly which I assume it's allergies but of course, I think Rona, is that you?

I have 4-5 with 4 X 400m and Pilates today.

Miserable out there this morning. My Garmin said "do workout" and I scrolled down to "skip." No way was tempo happening. No way was a run of any distance happening. I ran 4 very easy miles. And that was plenty. When I finished - before 9 am - my phone said 87, feels like 105. I had rearranged my schedule a bit and was knew a tough tempo workout was going to be pushing things base case - I've been pushing pretty hard all week. Even in good weather the tempo would have been too much. So the awful weather saved me from myself maybe?

 

Boston extended the window of when you can run the virtual to include next weekend (it originally started Monday the 7th). My last 20 miler (and only, since I cut the first one to 18) is supposed to be that Sunday. Extended forecast shows the weather about the same for both days, so I'm going to do it on that Sunday. A few people have asked me about it so I hope a few people at least show up (and a few neighbors get out at some point as I run by their houses 26 times).

 

I'm going to go run a couple errands, back later.

The later you can run it, the better weatherwise, I hope!

DH went outside and was standing and talking to our next-door neighbor for 20 minutes. Just standing. He came back in drenched in sweat and had to change his t-shirt. Today's weather might be the worst it's ever felt here. Just clicked on Weather Underground and it said 98, feels like 120. Looks like things are supposed to get better by the middle of next week at the latest, thank goodness.

Okay, done complaining, as it could be so much worse - we were awfully close to getting hit by Laura and got absolutely nothing. We could have no power from the hurricane. The county just to the north of us (like just a couple miles) is apparently on a separate power grid from us that services a large part of Louisiana, and a large transmission line was damaged in the hurricane. In order to not overload the system and allow for repairs, they have been having rolling blackouts since yesterday afternoon.

Elina, yay for the short getaway. Hmm, floor ball sounds like it could get pretty interesting this year.

Liz, thanks for checking in, I assumed you were super busy at work. I will say you mentioned keys and I had flashbacks to your time working for Mammal.

Hi Lisa and Damaris!

Also on the could be worse up above, the a/c guy came back this morning and installed the new parts. And the total for the entire thing was under $500. An a/c repair job sounds like about the least pleasant thing you could do here.

Oh, and almost forgot, we had our first Thursday night group run last night. In the past we've done hills or speed on Tuesdays as a group, but everyone was on their own for Thursday tempo. I decided to add a group meet on Thursday, and was kind of cursing myself before I went because I did not want to go. Was hoping no one would show as I drove down there. It was a small group, but it included one of our new people, and it was so much fun.