With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams...

32.75 mile bike ride with MR.  We took a few new side roads, just to see where they would go.  We're going to work our way back up to another 50 miler again.  We aren't hard core bikers...obviously.

No real great road kill treasures, but we did find a light housing (bulb included) for the treasure box.

Didn't run today...want my knee to be great for my 4th of July run on Monday.  MR did p90x core synergestics with me.  Then we did yardwork for hours.  Blech.

40 min easy elliptical

1 hour on the elliptical followed by p90x legs & back.  Then housework & laundry.  I need a housewife to take care of these things for me.

Humid just begins to describe the wet air outside today.  My garmin battery shut down just as I was headed out the driveway.  I decided to just run as I was.  I checked the time when I left, and when I got back.  Total time was 1:47, and I ran around 10 miles and walked about 1/2 mile.  I did some fartleks from mile 2.5 to mile 5.5.  I ran between the power poles fast/easy/fast/easy.  I had to walk a bit after finishing the fartleks.  I stopped and stretched a couple of times too, adjusting the knee brace once.  I was glad I had it on today.  

Just about the time I started walking, this dog started following me.  He never barked once.

He seriously just wanted to run circles around me.  Which is what he did for the next 5 miles, all the way home.  I am not sure which house he came from, and he doesn't have any tags on his collar.  But what he lacks in identification and brains, he makes up with the number of fleas jumping on him.

He is a cute dog, but I don't want a dog.  He ran out in front of cars while I was running.  He tripped me twice as he ran right into my legs, and tried to lick me too many times.  He's hanging out in my yard right now waiting for animal control to come pick him up.  If someone wants a cute, friendly, not so smart dog, let me know.  I'll mail him to you.

Legs are tired. I keep thinking they'll get stronger and quit feeling so tired.  Maybe they need a couple days of rest.....or some ice cream.  I'll try the ice cream first :-)

6 recovery run miles with Wyatt.  Humidity is crazy lately.  It storms during the night, and leaves a cloudy wet fog all across the sky in the morning.  Didn't see any interesting critters.  Just some people out looking for their Chihuahua that had escaped.  Didn't see the dog either.  Hope they find him.

Ab Ripper X when I got home.  

Now I want a nap :-)

p90x stretch video.

I feel like it's time for a little break today.  At least until after I've had some ice cream.

6 treadmill miles.  Need to change name to "dread-mill."  Not a fan of the treadmill.  I did get some hill work done on it, so it wasn't all for nothing.

After my treadmill yesterday, I wasn't going to run, but the only machine available was the treadmill.  I started out slow, and worked my way up to a little faster than slow.  My knee bothered me yesterday after the hill work on the treadmill, so today I kept it at 1.5 and changed to the bike when it opened up.  30 minutes on the bike.

1 hour on the elliptical followed by some open-water activities.

Found that I enjoy running little circles much more than I do running on a treadmill.  6 laps to a mile wasn't so bad.  I just ran for an hour and tried my best to keep track of the laps. 

Lots of walking today in hot & humid places.  Hiking up & tubing down.  Good times.

Running in circles again.  I'd take it over the treadmill any day!!  Beautiful views, lots to learn, lots to eat.

Then, I found a way to make the outside feel cooler; try some fresh habanero salsa.  When your mouth is on fire, it makes 98 degrees feel cool.

Pirate's Log:  Headed back toward land today.  Woke up early to run with the sunrise, then ran on the poop deck around & around till the poop was dizzy.  Then spent the rest of the day sweating in a hot tub.  Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me!

Any guesses where the Pirate is based on this photo?

Okay Pirate Fans.... Trivia Question #1:  Where's the Pirate at today?

Traveled all day...got sore hips sitting all day.  Ready to get home.

My bed & I had some make-up sleep time to take care of this morning.  All morning in fact.  Then it was running errands and buying milk since no one wanted to use the stuff that was expired & smelled funny.  Picky, picky, picky.

meh

5-6 am; 76^o with 90% humidity.  No sprinklers, but I was dripping wet without them by the time I was done. 

I was slow today.  Not intentionally.  Sometimes I start out slow for the first mile, then I can pick it up.  Not today.  Every mile but the last was over 10.  It felt good to be out running again after 5 days off, but I was disappointed my pace was so slow. 

Didn't see anything dead, but I did see an awesome old shoe in the middle of the road.  Just one, but with a nice leather upper.

Hot, humid, sweaty six.  Pace was 24 seconds faster than Thursday, and I was happy I could keep the miles under 10 min, but it was a tough six miles.

I was out early, so I did get to see an awesome sunrise. The pix is somewhere in my ipod.  And my ipod is somewhere in this house.  

"Your mother wears combat boots"

went for a 1.3 mile walk in my new combat boots.  Yep, QP has her own pair.  I thought I could wear them 3 miles without breaking them in a couple of weeks ago and I've got blister scars to prove how wrong I was.

So today we went slow and I'm working on getting my feet tough & the shoes soft so I can use them on our ruck marches in the future.

It's hot & humid here.  Have I mentioned that yet this summer?

THE GOLDEN CALF 10K

Out here in Babylon, running with the Gentiles.  Good times, good times.

We went running through the fields (not really sure what kind).  Here's Wyatt:

and here's a little pond we found out in the fields:

Out early again with Wyatt.  We ran to the p-town blinky light & back.  There was an awesome dead raccoon in the grass on the side of the road- rigor-mortis had set it & he had his little paws straight up in the air zombie style.  I didn't get a photo, so I am hoping he'll still be there tomorrow.

Slow miles, but I'm not sure the heat is the best time to push.  I'm just maintaining a base until it cools off a little and I can take more than an hour at a time.  I got home and my humidity measuring device said it was 98% humidity and 72 degrees. 

Very hot, but a little breeze now & then made it nicer than most other mornings this week that were cooler.

I took quick water & cool down breaks every 2 miles to keep from over heating.  It worked really well.  I feel like I could have run longer.  I also ran slower.  Avg pace was around 10:10.