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

One of the frogs living in my shed.  Just working on figuring out this posting photos business!

Just a run.  Not fast, but not trying to go slow.  I guess this is my auto-pilot speed.

avg pace 9:29.  Mostly progressive, but mile 3 (thank you dumb dog at mile 2 for making me run too fast) was slower than mile 2.  After that, all good.

Almost home, the sunrise colors were missing today.  Feeling cheated not finding any treasures, when what do you know, there on the side of the road was Toonces, the road kill cat.

Ab ripper x at home.  Found out today that my new running shorts are see thru when they're wet.  Such a great thing that I sweat so much....NOT.

p90x plyometrics

that's enough for now

robin nest out back has 3 new family members!

My legs are still crying from plyo yesterday.  I told them to shut up and quit whining.  Or, I tried to tell them...they didn't want to listen.

 First mile was slow...10:17.  Then I had a couple miles around 9:20-9:00, then built up to an 8:20 on mile 5.  Mile 6 I slowed down the first half, and tried to finish fast the last half.  Averaged an 8:32. 

I got my snooze and off buttons mixed up and got a late start today.  The sky was already light enough I didn't need my headlamp at 5:15 am.  I left it on for cars to see me.  Drivers seemed less happy about moving over and giving me egress.  I wonder if it's just cranky wednesday?

Legs are tired.  I decided that as sick as it sounds, sometimes I like it when they're sore because it's telling me I'm getting stronger. 

Kind of a recovery run.  Slow progression run.  Avg pace 9:29.

Toonces the road-kill cat is gone.  Took to the big highway in the sky.

I like being out when it turns from night to day.  Saw a rabbit hopping across my neighbor's yard.  I wonder if he's enjoying her garden :-)

Sleep. I took a nap after work yesterday and cried when I woke up because I couldn't go back to sleep due to a meeting.   I realized I just needed some sleep, so that's what I did.  Looking forward to a nice run tomorrow with Wyatt and the water boy.

12 mile country run with Wyatt and the WaterBoy.  Beautiful fields of corn starting to grow.

It was very muggy for the first 1/2 of the run.  Cloud cover, but we were running in clouds too.  And the freaking yellow flies are out.  They are abundant around swamps and forests.  Which was the first 3 miles of our run.  In her best effort to help me out, Wyatt tried to save me from the flies by trying to kill them when they landed on me.  I got smacked in the back of the head and smacked on the rear.   For anyone who doesn't know yellow flies, they're horrid like horse flies, and they swarm us on the roads and bite without mercy.  We took a different route back home instead of the planned out & back.  It was a good choice.

 We had some great treasure finds.  MR found a reversible watch on the side of the road.  Can't tell for sure, but it looks like one side is star wars and the other side is Justin Bieber.  It was laying next to a box of "Summer's Eve."  Let the jokes come. 

We also found this.  A backbone, head, and one leg.  Curious & makes you wonder where the rest of it went.

 The run wasn't really fast, but it was nice to get out.  We had a little rain toward the end, and then the sun came out super hot just as we were ending.  Perfect timing, perfect run.