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

Morning 2 mile walk on the beach with MR, drove home, p90x stretch (aahhhhhh), then another 2 mile walk in the evening.  Just trying to walk that soreness away.

President's day and I got to work.  Hooray :-(

20 min elliptical on easy.  I never imagined my quads would be this sore after a 1/2.  I want to recover properly and not over-do it. 

pilates in the morning

My last Wed morning with my neighbor for a while.  She's going away to school for a few weeks.

We ran an avg 9:57 pace which felt just right.  My legs have felt better ever since. 

45 min elliptical on super easy in the pm while I worked on finishing up runner's world.  Billy Mills story always amazes and inspires me.

At 2:00 this morning, I was awakened by my chicken making noises outside my window.  Our chickens sleep in a hut inside their fenced in coop area, which is nowhere near my bedroom window, so I woke up 100% certain that there was a vicious predator in the coop that was killing all the chickens, and this one had managed to fly out and had come cackling at me for help.

I'm busy looking for suitable attire to put on to go out and put the chicken massacre to an end, and looking for my headlamp, and finding my glasses... it seemed like forever. I envisioned carnage and feathers everywhere, with perhaps an opposum or raccoon licking it's little lips in the distance.  My heart was racing with fear and adrenaline.

Finally, I got out back and right there waiting at the door is "Lassie."  I picked her up and walked out to the coop and the other girls were all safe in the hen house.  I have no idea why that silly bird was 1-awake at 2am or 2-cackling outside my window or 3-not in the hen house with the others.

But I was wide awake, and it was still only 2:20 in the morning.  I was up for at least another hour with my mind running and my body not wanting to.  So I slept in this morning.  I had to drive for seminary which means I'd have to be finished working out by 5:30, and I didn't have the energy or desire.  I'm counting it as a recovery morning.  I'm planning on getting out and walking/running at the park this afternoon.

Hopefully the great chicken mystery of 2 am will not have a sequil anytime soon.

Went to the park and got in 3 laps.  Each lap took just under 10 minutes and is around 1 mile.  It was beautiful outside.

I didn't wake up super early- I stayed in bed as long as possible. It's a good thing (I'm telling myself) that I did so I didn't over-do-it and run too much.  The things I can justify....

It ended up being a progressive run.  I just started running comfortably and by the last mile decided to go ahed and run faster to try and make it 30 second intervals.  I got pretty close. Laps were around 10:10, 9:40, 9:10, 8:40.  Then I had to hurry in and get ready for work.

Of course at work we've had donuts and King's Hawaiian bread with spinach dip and that was all before 10:30.  Good times...

We weren't going to run today, since our training for the 1/2 was over, but there was a free fun run on base, and we just couldn't resist. 

It was colder than I'd planned, but warmed up quickly running the first mile almost all downhill.  Then it kind of plateaus, then uphill.  I told MR I wasn't going to race, but geez, I just the fever!

When we were nearing the 1/2 way point, I started counting females that were ahead of me.  I counted 9, so I would have been #10, but as we turned the 1/2 way point, some pony-tailed vixen passed me up and made me #11.  Aaarrrggghhh!  Well, I worked hard the second half of the race (I even left MR behind) because I wanted to be in the top 10.  I managed to get #10 about half way up the hill, and then on the last stretch of the track heading into the finish line, I got #9.  Woo-hoo!!

They had lots of free SWAG there.  Got some t-shirts, pens, chick-fil-a mini sandwiches, water, food snacks, etc.  We stuck around for the raffle drawing, and I was getting really cold.  We had another 1/2 hour to wait so we went back to the car and I got the awesome fuzzy stinky blanket RAD gave me for Christmas to wrap around myself and keep me warm.  Thank you for saving the day RAD!!

We didn't win anything on the raffle drawing (I wish lucky Burt was there to help me win- he always wins stuff), so we left to do our trail hike.

We did 4 miles on the trail with ruck sacks.  I made sure mine wasn't too heavy, but MR was dragging along his 60 lbs trying to be a hot shot.  My allergies started going crazy and I turned into a hot snot.  I had to use the little towel they gave away at the race to keep wiping my nose and eyes with.  My legs really felt that hike.  4 miles was enough for me. 

It was a good day.  Cherry trees are in blossom and there are pink blooms coming up everywhere.  The forsythia are all blooming too.  I'm soooo glad spring is here :-)