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

Seminary graduation and cake.  More than 1 piece of cake, but only 1 graduate.

MR went running with me this morning since he has the week off for graduation & company.  

We went out and enjoyed the beautiful morning.  Avg pace 9:29.

Super dead scrambled up orange kitty on the side of the road.  Sorry no photo for today, but I have a feeling he'll still be there next time I run by.  Didn't look like he was going anywhere.

p90x plyometrics

1 hour of sweatin'  goodness. 

No running today, I needed 6 hours of sleep and had to sacrifice exercise.  So I'm posting a photo of a blackhawk uh60 at the Sicily drop zone.  They were doing airborne jumps out of the helicopter.  3 jumpers on each side.  This is a photo of the helicopter taking off.

I never tire of watching the paratroopers jump out of aircraft and parachute down.  It's amazing.

And of course, here's my favorite jumpmaster :-) I don't know how to get the photo upright.  I guess I need another tutorial in photobucket.  I fixed it there, but it won't copy correctly.

2 mile walk through the hood in the evening.

Legs still sore from p90x plyo on Tuesday.  It seems like I just can't get used to that video.

Had a good run.  Saw a little lightening, but it was nice outside.  Good breeze to cool off the humidity.  74 degrees at 5 am.  Woo-hoo.  I ran to the overpass, where I tried some sprints uphill, then went down the other side, and sprinted back up.  Happy overall with the pace.  Not any real good treasures on the roadside today, but I took a photo along the roadside where I have a pretty view.  It's a little grainy because it was too dark for my ipod w/o a flash.  But you get the general idea.  Wheat was just cut on the field on the right, and corn is growing on the left.

30 min elliptical and ab ripper.  It's been a while since I did ab ripper, and it was tough. 

Graduation, Red Lobster, Nap. 

Ran with Wyatt- MR was a good waterboy.  It was wicked warm by 7:30 am when we started out.  I was ready to quit at mile 2, but felt better after getting the first 4 out of the way.  We went slow and took a few walking water breaks.  Total mileage was over 10, but only 9.5 for running.

There is a huge swamp of cypress trees that we run by (the alligator swamp), which is now filled with water lillies.  It's beautiful, but what I thought was really neat was how the little water pond in the ditch has water lillies in it too.  So that's my treasure for the day.  That and the 2 shotgun shell casings we found.