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

wowwie wow wow, I am sore

Tried zumba after work- I've never done zumba without sweating.  I wasn't capable of moving enough to work up a sweat today. But it did feel good to move a little.

elliptical in the morning

zumba in the afternoon.  much better today than yesterday

walk in evening 

Finally able to run!  The first mile was slow, oh so slow, as my legs got used to the movements and worked through the soreness.  By mile 4, I'd cut 2 minutes off my pace and felt good.  Horray!!

zumba after work 

Does the .01 really matter?  I often wonder if I should even include it.  Because today, honestly, I pushed the stop on my watch as soon as I heard the beep beep for mile 5.  But you know what?  After 100 days of running, that .01 is really going to add up!

I had considered running in the morning and afternoon, but I'm weary of too much too soon after Saturday, so I had little trouble rationalizing an extra hour in bed.  

The run home was lovely.  Cloudy, cool, and a wee bit windy- but that was all quickly forgotten as I got lost in the joy of the jog.  I thought the run couldn't get any better when I spotted another HUGE pile of pink cotton candy on the side of the road.  But life sometimes has a way of making good runs awesome, and I found this plastic little busted up pagoda-looking topper on the side of the road and managed to run home the last 2 miles with it jutting out the front of my reflective vest.  Awkward? Yes.  Worth it? Heck Yes!

As an added bonus, you can see the paint on the top of my car that has been removed and/or gouged out from the "bike vs garage door opening" episode.

Easy run in the morning to wake up the legs and get my day started off right.  The sun is coming up earlier and it makes my morning runs delightful when I get to start off with the moon and come home with sun.  I always enjoy the months when we get to enjoy the full moon in the early morning and he joins me for my runs.

Went out later in the day today so I could do errands first, and with hopes that the weather would warm up some during the day.  It was overcast and in the 40s all day.  Gloomy weather.

My plan was to run to Wyatt's house, take a short run with her, and then run home.  We'd discussed running times, and I let her know when I left my house.  I was disappointed when I got to her house and she wasn't there.  Wesley's quote, "Life is pain you highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something" kept echoing in my mind.  

I tried to steal some water out of her hose to fill my water bottle, but I couldn't get the darn thing to work and I didn't want to break it.  So I had to take a little detour to a greasy gas station and beg for some water from their tap. So my pain was subsided with a dollop of kindness from the greasy gas station ladies and their warm tap water.  Thank you ladies- you made my day!

I ran home, taking a different route than I'd gone out on, and added an extra mile or so going through a new subdivision.  I checked my watch as I was exiting the subdivision, and I knew how many miles it was from there to my house, so when my watch died sometime later, I didn't stress about it.  With 2 miles to go, I found a busted up guitar on the side of the road.  I wanted to take the end of the arm with all the twisty things on it home with me, but they were attached to a bunch of stuff via the strings.  So I had to settle on this little nugget of wood.: (I'm not certain what part of the guitar it came from)

I am tempted to run back there on Monday morning with some wire cutters and take the good part home with me.  Something to look forward to :-) You know a good pirate doesn't just leave the best booty laying around for any old joe to come and take!  "You are trying to take what I have rightfully stolen."

With only 1/2 mile to go until I get home, the freaking sun finally decides to come out.  Oh the injustice of it all.  So instead of running 15.7 miles, I took a loop through my hood so I could spend a little more time with the sun and I ended up with 17 miles.  Totally worth it.