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

2 mile walk in the hood. 

Had to get up at 230 to take the buccaneer boy to the airport.  Got home in time to go to work. Running just ain't gonna happen today.

I had considered a bike ride in the afternoon, but got roped into putting up the new coop for baby Mojito.  Here's our newest addition:

My daughter felt bad taking the chick away from it's mother, and said she was going to sleep outside on the porch with the chick all night.  Then, 10 minutes later, she came inside without the chick.  She said, "Yeah, that idea went out the window after the chick pooped all over my hands."  I had to laugh.

And my miles are piling up for the week......NOT.

The cold I've been fighting off has crept into my chest.  I just didn't seem wise to get out and run.  I did 20 min on the elliptical and I'm taking my vitamins.

Last day of work till August :-)

Here's a photo from last Saturday that sums up how I've been feeling:

walk around the hood in the evening with MR.  2 miles

I finally woke up feeling better.  Man, it's been a long week.  

I decided to take it easy, so I just ran around the neighborhood.  Went out around 6:30.  Still cool, and the sun was up so I got to leave the headlamp at home.  My watch was dead, so I borrowed MR's.  He has different settings on his, so all I could see was the miles and total time.

I was going to run 4, then decided I'd make it 40 minutes instead.  When I finished and went to 6.check the splits on the watch, I realized he'd had it set for bike instead of run.  So I'm not sure what my splits were.  My average speed however, was 6.7mh.  Oh well.  The little calculator on the side of the blog says that 40:00/4.52= 8.51.  I guess I'll take that. 

I came home and stretched out and then did 30 minutes on the elliptical.  I'm hoping I'll get a bike ride in today too before the rain comes.  I'd like to be able to ride my bike to walmart to return redbox and pick up some photos, but the traffic in that part of town is freaky scary.

I did see a little gray kitten dead on the side of the road, but it made me sad and I didn't want to take a picture of it.  Poor kitten.  We've got too many stray cats here.  I'll quote the great Bob Barker, "Remember folks,  don't forget to spay and neuter your pets."

So instead of dead kittens, I'll put up a photo of the pink dinosaur we saw on our trail run 2 weeks ago.  There was a tornado that went through the houses that are along the trail.  Someone must be missing this ugly critter.  I will call him trail treasure #2.

14.95 mile bike ride with MR.  Running an errand and getting exercise at the same time.

Then we went car shopping for the rest of the day.  I loathe car shopping.  I did get to eat at Chubby's Tacos, however, so evidently I can be bribed for the cost of a Chubby's fish taco.  

Hot and humid.  After 4 miles, I felt like I was running in a sauna.  My pace slowed down, and I had to take a couple walk breaks to cool off. The occasional shade and breeze was the only thing that saved me.

Considering the heat, humidity, my lack of running this week, and still not 100% back from the cold, I'm pretty happy with my run.  We had lots of fun things to look at. 

Baby horses

Baby cows

And decay  dog. He was in an area where there weren't any houses.  Wonder how he got all the way out there.  From the look of his collar, he belonged to someone. :-(

 In the afternoon, we were lucky enough to go to the National Hollerin' Contest.  So much fun and so many memories.  There will be video posted when I can figure out how to share it.  All I can say is "Whhhhhooooooooooo-eeeeeeeeeeee."