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

The snooze button vs the Off button.  Today, Off button won.

MR said "5 more minutes."  An hour later I jerk out of bed, yelling that it's late and MR is really late, and now there's no time for a run. 

I was going to ride my bike to work, but realized it was really raining.  So I did a quick Shred level 1 video.  When it was over I looked outside and saw that it had quit raining, so I got bike stuff ready super quick and left for work.  I had to take the fastest route there to make it on time, but I pulled in with 5 minutes to spare.

It took me 30 minutes to get ready for work after I was there, but school is out so it wasn't a big deal.  I hope it's not raining in the afternoon.  It is already super humid outside so it'll be a sweat fest on the way home.

pm- rainstorm came like a mother and wouldn't stop.  Had to bum a ride home from Wyatt.  

Didn't do a dag-gum thing.  But here are some fabulous photos from my run a couple weeks ago:

I think this one above was a squirrel.  The one below was a snake that was dead, but I didn't know it was dead until MR convinced me otherwise.  When I ran upon him, his head was in the road facing me.  The bright orange is his belly, but I didn't know that at the time.  I just had a big black and orange snake laying in the road waiting to kill me.  Now when I run by him, he's just shriveling up and in a little wad on the grass.  None of the scavengers seem interested in eating him.

I tried running my 9 mile loop again today.  The one that I epically failed on last Saturday.  I didn't fail quite as much today, but I wouldn't consider it a success.

I started out just after 7:30, but it was already hot and humid, so I did have to take a few cool down walk breaks.  I would walk back the way I had come so I'd get a little extra mileage in and have a good long cool-down at the end.

With 3 miles left, I was running low on water and the heat was kicking into high gear.  I went a 1/4 mile out of my way to stop at a friend's house to beg for water out of her hose.  I actually scored some cold fridge water instead, and it was a welcome relief.  I'm going to have to leave some water bottles out on my routes ahead of time if I run anything over 6 miles.  I sweat so much that I need to hydrate often.  Sweaty pirates like to drink- got that?

got out early, it was so nice and cool.  The sun was getting warm on my way back, but the breeze was blowing in my face and made it nice.

progressive run.  Not super fast, just right.  

So glad school is out for the summer!

yardwork for a couple hours.  Weeding for most of it.  Why do I spend my first official day of summer weeding?  Old habits die hard.

MR was sick today, so I just used that as my excuse to not exercise.  I wouldn't want to make him look bad just sitting around all day by himself.

I'd typed something up, but it disappeared when I tried to post it.

It was a good run, shade &/or breeze almost the whole time.  MR rode the bike and made sure I had plenty to drink.