17.2 for me!

GREAT run today. It was hot, humid and gross..but thankfully, it was overcast. I also started before 4am so that helped. Instant sweat when I walked out the door so im really surprised the run went as well as it did. I had to come home twice for a bathroom break - I didn't mind because it was AC for a few minutes Physically, I felt great - must have been the massage. This is my last longer run for a while. I think the first 3-4 weeks of my training cycle I am under 15 miles for long runs. This will be my first time using Pfitz, so I am excited for a change! I can't believe its time for training to start next week. 16 weeks until Richmond Marathon which means..FALL IS COMING.

I hope today is as busy as yesterday! Looking forward to the day flying by Trying to figure out what I want for dinner..French toast..spaghetti...burgers. I just can't make up my mind!

Busy weekend full of wedding errands for us. Still waiting on drawings for the house (outside of the house). Whats everyone else have going on??

Run4kupcakes – Oh wow! Glad you got home safely! Uhm, no I have not tried that drink but OMG that sounds delicious!!!!

Lisa – Nice run yesterday 😊 That Scorpion medal is pretty damn awesome. Sounds right up your alley 😊 What do you normally take to help you sleep? Haha. Possum’s Revenge swag sounds awesome too! Is Diane doing that one?

Tessa – Wow, I guess that’s a good thing about the insurance business? Sorry its causing this amount of work load for you though ☹ Hope the weekend gets here quick for you!

Margaret – Happy Hour burpees?! Haha. Enjoy your run and kettlebells! Do I remember seeing you are volunteering this weekend?

Happy FRIYAY!

Morning!  I have 7 miles tonight.

Margaret, the main side effect of the BP med is headaches and we just upped the dose (double it actually), so it is likely it.  I've not had a migraine in 6 months (until last week) and I think it was mostly because we had gotten the dose down, sigh.

Liz, I've never had pecan pie, lol.  Glad your run was great!  I used to do Pfitz before and it's a great program.

Susan, ooh, lots of doggies.

Happy Friyay!  6 miles yesterday, rest day for me today, I will try to get my lower body strength in.  I am off work at 2:00 and the kids want me to take them to the beach.  Laying around on the beach sounds preferable to strength...  DH's birthday this weekend, we are planning on seeing the Toy Story movie tomorrow and dinner at the in-laws.  Humidity here has been coming and going, I am hoping it will be gone for my run on Sunday, it's another threshold run.  Total of a little over 9 miles with 5 at threshold, which according to the plan is 8:09 pace.  Which seems closer to my 5K pace.  I'm pretty sure that's not happening!    That wouldn't be so bad in itself, but then Wednesday is a little over 8 miles with 3 at threshold plus 8x200m intervals!  This is not a fun few training weeks coming up...

Lizzie, awesome long run last night!    The weather here has been really weird.  50's again this morning and low humidity.  But humidity coming back.  My run yesterday was nice, a little humid but there were those weird cool patches.  Yay for marathon training!    DD wants to go to a place for dinner that has baked cod, potato pancakes, and awesome homemade applesauce.  The applesauce is worth the price of the dinner.    We can carry over our PTO now (since our company got acquired a few years ago), the only issue is you stop accruing if you have too much.  I have never had a problem with that however.    They are supposed to unveil a new vacation policy, curious to see what it will be!   I was wondering why Strava didn't import weather info from Garmin.  Cuz that's an interesting thing to see.  I found a website that puts the weather info into your Strava activity, it's called klimat.  Google it up, it's free and it would be cool to see in your workouts!

Sue, sounds like it will be fun dog sitting!    Hope your weather isn't too bad!

Damaris, I just had pecan pie for the first time recently.  It never looked appetizing to me.  Too sweet!  Enjoy the 7!

Kat, I like the "animal name" goal.    Have fun volunteering!

Tessa, sorry work has been so crazy!

Lisa, the scorpion medal is pretty cool, the Possum swag also sounds awesome.  I would like to get all this faster road running out of my system and do some more trail running!  I think about that quite often these days.  

Kupcakes, wow on the flooding!

Karen, glad you got some decent running weather.  Decent for you.    Have an awesome trip!

Margaret, amazing that you can run 10 after work.  I don't want to do anything after work.  Walking my friends' dogs with DD takes a ton of effort.  

Cathy

Forgot--I love pecan pies! One of the best recipes is on the back of the Karo syrup bottle.  

Lisa-- discussed Scorpion w DH and he's in. We had been talking about going to Meridian for a weekend -- maybe antiquing a bit. He would probably be more for the Hilton, vs a BNB w people he's never met.  Not as adventurous as we are lol. I will probably sign up for the 12k or maybe 25k, not 50k.

Labs are here, so now we have a house full. Luckily we were able to go outside and let them run a bit before the rain hit.

Liz-pecan pie is yummy and more fall sounding to me. LOL on your dinner options. Wow on your miles this morning! Kat is doing possum for sure not sure on Diane but she's due for a do-over there. :-)

Sue-I AM SO EXCITED... YOU WILL BE AT SCORPION TOO!  Abhay will be there also doing the 25k. There must be very ample time allowed for it if I signed him up for it. LOL Might as well go for the 25k to make the trip seem more worthwhile. LOL Or buy many antiques.

Damaris-happy 7 miles on the tm.. I'm sure it will be on the tm since .. well... miami.

Kat-Happy work day and it's fun to have a goal... hunting animals... animal races that is!

Cathy-I'm sure that carrying gear to sit at the beach involves strength, right? Yes, get those silly fast road races out of your system and find me some animal named trail race to do with you! Fun is the name of the game!

Lori-power hike/race walk/ultra pace all about the same. what's the difference between speed walking alone or running slowly alone? Not making fun, just not understanding why one would bother you while the other doesn't. Do what is right and feels good for you. I'm more apt to pick a distance or race that might be a stretch but that I don't feel will make me feel badly if I don't finish it or do "well."  If you go for 100m and get pulled at the 100k point it still counts as 100k so what's the reason to switch? But if mentally it feels better to go for 100k and succeed then the other way ... that makes sense to me to switch. I know it's hard not to let it get to you but do what you can and be proud of it. We all go through peaks and valley... luckily one follows the other. Life isn't a point to point... it's one big loop so what goes up much come down and vice versa (okay that doesn't make sense but hopefully helps). LOL  Happy anniversary! I'm sure that hubby wants to see you happy with your choice. (race distance not him.  

Laura-free dinner! Yeah!

Yup was up at 1am to register. Of course got my email from RD after that to say that he had loaded my deferral into Ultrasignup. So.... I am now signed up for Coyote Run in April using the deferral from Brazos Bend last year which used the deferral from Franklin Mountains 11/2017!

Pretty much decided that 2020 will be animal themed races that are "shorter".. will work on getting a bit faster (ha!) or just having fun depending on the race. Expect that plan to change. I may look at longer race end of year too but who knows.

Lisa unless my SI joint issue gets fully resolved then technical races are out for me.  The climbing puts too much stress on my back.  Flattish races will have to be it.

We just got into the cabin next door to the one for sale. Even better than we’d hoped. I want to give them all our money now!!!!

The one for sale has people in it until tomorrow (so we are looking at it around noon) and DH Is now worried the people in it are going to buy it today. Sigh.