Its National Sugar Cookie Day!!

Coincidentally, I had a sugar cookie for breakfast this morning. It had icing on it and was in the shape of a flip flop. 

Happy Tuesday!

3.5 yesterday and 3.2 today.  We are having hot and humid weather but the mornings have been pleasant.

Work is...well, work.  Enough said LOL

Lizzie - so exciting about the wedding venue and planner.  Wedding planners were not a thing when I got married back in the day  (1992) but I would absolutely need one now, I can't plan my way around anything 

Karen - Happy Belated Birthday (I got you covered on Facebook though)!!  Hope it was a good day!

Ugh, well, guess I better get back to it......Have a great day everyone!

I had a headache and didn't sleep well. Blew off this morning's run.

Lizzie----DD had a wedding planner and she was awesome!!! Took care of EVERYTHING and added some special touches too. We had a lovely, enjoyable, drama-free ceremony. Except for running out of chicken tenders at the reception, everything was great.

Our DJ has functioned as the wedding planner.  He has scripted/planned the reception, coordinated reception vendors, and sent us many reminders of things to do before the wedding. He is the bomb.  Your mom shouldn't be giving you any grief over this--it's YOUR day!!!

My supervisor's supervisor is here today to visit another office.  He will probably pop in for a minute. If he asks, I will let him know how it has been going.

Liz...I frequently indulge in so-called forbidden foods in the morning!  I figure I will burn it off during the day, works for me!  Sorry you argued with your mom again over the wedding.  Makes eloping sound like a good idea at times doesn't it?

SDO for me today, back at it tomorrow.

I have to go shoe shopping at a running store, just cannot find the right shoe.  My feet are so weird as I have gotten older, wider in the forefoot, really narrow at the heel and a tendency to go numb and cramp, especially if the shoe hits me in a certain spot, in the ball of my right foot...wish I could just run barefoot.

Ginny

Good morning! I so did not want to get up when Riley woke me up at 6. I almost went back to bed, but I stayed up. Had some coffee then went out to run. In my neighborhood again - when it's earlier there's less chance of running into people. The only ones out are those going to work, and they don't have time to stop and chat. I ended up running 7.4 miles and making it a progression run, 9:49, 9:38, 9:34, 9:23, 9:15, 9:05, 8:54, 8:47 for the last 0.4. That got hard at the end - the sun came out, it was getting hotter and hotter, and I ran out of gears. Pretty happy I was able to do that though. Temps and dew point were in the mid to upper 70s. I was drenched. Sweat was dripping off my shorts they were so soaked through - looked like I'd been in the pool.

Today I'm going to go through my closet and get rid of a bunch of old clothes and shoes. It is just a mess in there and I know I haven't worn a bunch of the stuff in there probably since we moved down here. Oh, Riley and I celebrated my birthday last night:

Liz, I am so so so glad you hired a wedding planner. On the floors, we did the wood floor in our old house and some of the laminate floors ourselves, then hired someone to do the other laminate. What took us a week they did in like two hours. So when we moved here, we didn't even consider doing it ourselves!

Laura, nice job getting out there in the cool mornings. I never remember to wish anyone a happy birthday on facebook, so I'm impressed you got me there. Thanks.

Judy, I have been getting great sleep - we started turning the a/c way down at night. The only problem is it's harder to get up and out from under the blankets in the morning!

Susan, hope you're feeling better and any meeting with the supervisor goes well.

Damaris, how can we be so alike in some ways and so different in others. I'm laughing at what your response to mom would be in Lizzie's situation. My response was more like eh, whatever you want, you're paying for it.

Ginny, just another reason for you to come down and visit me. We could take a break from hanging out at the pool in the heat and go down to my shoe store to get expert fitted for shoes!

Sandy, I missed Ginny's book rec, gonna have to go back and look at yesterday's thread. High five to you on the crappy sweaty miles. Seems like you have been having a lot of unusually hot days this summer.

ETA: I guess I did see Ginny's book rec, but I'd already read the books. No excitement for me.

Happy Sugar Cookie Day!    DD insisted on buying the Nestle chocolate chip cookie dough that you heat up individually and I made a few last night.  That will be my cookie celebration.    44 minute fartlek this morning, I need to do some strength tonight.  The humidity was back, though it wasn't horrible.  Already 70 degrees at 5 AM though.

Lizzie, nice 8!  It's cooler there than here!  Enjoy!  My Saucony Triumphs are still almost brand new, I haven't needed to wear my long run shoes yet.    Sigh, sorry about the issues with your mom.  Did she figure that you didn't need a wedding planner because you have her?     Yeah, fast co-worker's easy pace is now under 8 minute miles.  He ran a 5K in under 21 minutes a few weeks ago.

Happy Tuesday, Laura!  

Sue, hope the headache went away!

Damaris, your honesty is refreshing.     No progressive runs, be careful what you ask for.    Haha, progressive runs are fun.

Ginny, I have been wearing my Topo Ultrafly shoes for my long runs, they have been working well.  They are wide in the forefoot, supposed to allow for natural toe splay.  My feet are on the narrow side but they work for me.  They are still cushioned.  They are a lower drop though, 5 mm.  The other Topo shoes are zero drop.

Sandy, yes, I have to carry my phone when I am on call.  It works out nice because I get phone notifications on my Garmin.  Otherwise I would probably not hear it ring!    Otherwise I don't usually carry my phone with me except for long runs.  Never know what may happen.    Yeah, we had pagers also.  And back in the day, the phone in the bag!  Mr Math did have to do some planning for that run, the middle of the E's do not have a road that goes all the way through.  But he discovered that if you pause your Garmin while running, run a bit and start it again, it will draw a straight line from where you ended.  So it was a little over 8 miles based on the Garmin, but really over 10 miles of running!  Plus he had to get home afterwards.    The weather has been decent lately.  It's supposed to get really humid on Sunday, but the mornings are tolerable.  You should move here.    Nice sweaty run!  Well, at least when you get sweaty you feel like you accomplished something.  My one on one was moved to tomorrow.  Usually no one talks to me while I run.  Everyone was in a great mood on Saturday though so I had a lot of people talk to me while running.  It was weird.  

Karen, wow, nice progression!  Nice looking cupcakes too.  It sounds like you had a great low-key birthday!   I finished Behind Closed Doors.  It was good!  Though the ending in Thailand seemed a little prolonged, with the super fast rate of speed the rest of the book went.  I haven't read the Crazy, Rich Asian books.  More books to add to my list.  

Elina, nice that you had a holiday!  Yes, everyone is different when you are with a kid.  When I ride my bike with kids, all the cars stop for them.  They don't do that when I am alone.  

Cathy

dhuffman63, the haunted wedding sounds fantastic! That must have been a lot of fun.  Oh, I never could adjust to bifocals because of having to rock my head back. My neck said, "We are NOT doing this!". 

Lizzie, as the oldest here I can say that many years ago the wedding was considered the" mother of the bride's party". Now things customs have changed, and it is a very good thing they have. It's SO much better to let it be the bride and groom's party. DH and I just went over to the church and got married...no party. I never regretted it. 

Ginny, I need a 12mm drop for running shoes. Our feet get more opinionated as we get to be older runners. LOLOLOL

Damaris, ooo! The sunday sounds great for breakfast. Hmmmm. I have some low fat chocolate syrup too....

Hi! Quick check-in as I once again barely have time for anything. Few lines after today's tempo miles:

Complaint: It's insanely hot and humid here, even postponing run till 8pm didn't help; tempo workout in this weather felt insane. Not far from the ''this is how I die'' HM in Amsterdam w K still as ''passenger''. Honestly. I know Damaris and few others here have it worse, but I was not raised/prepared for this

(Mini)Exaggeration: If it stays the same on Sunday (another speedwork day) I'll either do it at midnight or move to Alaska the day before

Confession: 3 hours of sleep and mini-portion soup as the only food for the day probably didn't help. Oh, and coffee. Gallons.

Joy: I hit the needed paces, squeee!

Complaint/Confession#2: The work stress is making me grumpy, bringing out all the worst characteristics; I am often very unkind to people who've done no wrong. Have tried to work on this, but no change.

Observation: After doing the hard runs on the same remote, no-curve roads all the time; I bet a time will come when I will walk there and tell my grandkids about ''those tough summers of HM training''

Joy#2: Sunset runs are beautiful, especially with meadow trails as part of cool-down miles (but, seriously, Mother Nature, turn the damn heater down)

P.S. Diane; I noticed the LIDL message; will check it out; appreciated!!!