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

It was cold this morning out on the mountain, but we got in a little hike before our long car ride home.  Thankfully, there was an IKEA on the way for a nice mid-trip break :-)

Back to running this morining.  I was slow- avg pace 9:32.  Not sure why today was a tough run day, some days are just like that I guess.

I did manage to pull off a 9:01 the last mile, so maybe I just needed more time to warm up.

I went to get up out of bed early, and MR said "Just 5 more minutes" so I stayed in bed with him and 5 minutes turned into 30 minutes of sleep. 

30 min elliptical, ab ripper x, 15 more minutes of elliptical.

I'll do something after work in the "running" department.

walked a total of 2.18, ran 3 after.  All under a 10mm.  Bubble girls are getting busy!!

Early morning with my neighbor.  We left early so we'd have plenty of time to get our 6 miles in.  Ran to the p-town light.  I only recall 2 cars passing us on the road.  One of them was being ridiculous and wouldn't give us an inch.  I am looking forward to using my new air horn on these people in the future!

In the pm I put on my vibrams and went for a walk to deliver a package that the mail carrier delivered to the wrong address (mine).  I decided to try running home slowly in them to practice my mid-foot strike. 

Then, I had to redeem myself a little in the calorie department and spent some time (75 minutes) on the elliptical to try and work off the 2 1/2 donuts, 5 cookies & hot fudge sundae I ate at work today.  Pretty sure I didn't burn them all off, but I made a dent.

Watched "money ball" movie in the pm.... MEH... fell asleep a couple of times- kind of depressing.

I slept in because it was raining, and my bed was so much more inviting than the rainy roads.  When I got up an hour later, the rain was done, and it was 58* outside. Perfect weather for a run. Avg pace 8:57

This afternoon is looking like a run with Wyatt.  Goodie goodie!!

A Beautiful afternoon/evening run with Wyatt.  We wore shorts & t-shirts and it was just perfect.  We went slow and easy (had to stop and watch a beaver playing in a swamp for a few minutes) and talked each other's ears off.  If we could only talk our rears off too!!  Avg pace 10:57  (2 min difference from this morning).

p90x and 20 min elliptical.

Krispy Kreme tomorrow-  whoopeeee!!!

Great fun with the neighbors on the ride to & from the race, as well as at the race while we watched and commented on everybody that was running!  My favorite was either Hulk or the Spartans, who all took off running in ranks, with their red capes billowing behind them in the wind and their swords held high. 

I never did actually see the frisbee guy who was running in body paint and had a frisbee tied on the front and a frisbee tied on the back.  Too bad for me.  Then there were these guys at the donut stop:

Does that tattoo on the guy's forearm actually say nerd?  I'm just glad that race bib is stragetically placed to cover his ranger panty squat.

MR ate his dozen (I only ate one donut & took the rest with me in a ziplock bag [thanks for the great ideas grandma]).  He actually finished before me- the run back is all uphill and he's a beast on the hills.  I struggled to catch up with him for almost 2 miles and had just about caught him, but was just a second or two behind.  Including the stop, I had a 9:49 average pace, but I did lap my "donut stop" time, which was over 9 minutes, so the average running was a much better pace... more like a 7:59 or something.

It was chilly to start, but so much better than last year with all of the rain.  I wore my FAT KIDS LOVE CAKE t-shirt and got a few comments out of it.  Evidently, it's acceptable to wear to a donut race, but not so much to Red Lobster for dinner at the all you can eat shrimp-fest.

Here's a pix of MR in his warrior skirt and helmut....

What a hottie.