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

30 minute elliptical in the am.  2 mile walk through the hood with MR & Terri in the pm.  It was still wicked hot, and I found some nice sprinklers to run through.  I still had my dress on- we all thought it would have been great if I'd been wearing my combat boots too.  Ah, an idea for another day...

dead frog run- 6 miles with Terri.  Wonderful, wild, wet run. Wonderful because of the company, Wild because of Mr Toad's Wild Ride that didn't end so well, and wet because I was sweating so much!!

Anyone need some new uppers for their nikes?  I found these during one of our little "walk breaks" today.  We surely needed them due to the humid heat sauna.

Went with Terri to run the trails on base this morning.  It was less humid, and we had nice shade from the trees most of the time. 

4 miles slow & easy with Wyatt & MR.  we walked over a mile with warm up/cool down.  I came home & did Shred level 2.  I am sure my arms will be sore tomorrow, just in time to help little buccaneer move into his dorm.  

45 minute elliptical. nice company on the phone with RAD.  She's always got good stories to make the time fly by.

Wyatt and I went out for our long run this morning.  It was considerably cooler and we had a little breeze to make it even nicer.  I put water out at mile 6.5, and we stopped to fill up, but we would have been okay without it.  

It really convinced me that the heat does make running more difficult, because it was so easy today.

I took my bike out to pick up the waterbottles after we got back, so I had a 9 mile bike ride too.  I tried riding fast to keep my heart rate up & my muscles moving.  Not sure what my bike pace was, but it felt like 100% effort.

MR and I went out for a bike ride after sleeping in...yea!!!  We weren't out for long when we saw a little critter in the cotton fields.

A puppy tent!  We rescued him and he's safe in our garage now.  There wasn't a home within a mile or more, so we didn't feel bad about rescuing him. We also rescued a big brown spider living in him...but had to leave him at the sanctuary we ended up at later in our ride.

MR also spotted a nice place to get his photo taken. His quote for the photo was, "King of the Castle" in his best Borat voice.  No treasures to take home from this stop except the photo.

We were out maybe 12 miles from home, and the heavens opened up and poured rain on us.  It was neat watching the sheets of rain blow across the fields, but after a mile or so, we were drenched and the rain wasn't letting up.  If you've never been in a southern downpour, it's not like any other kind of rain storm around.  We saw a church and took a little break in the covered driveway they had.

 That's where we found the spider stow-away and left him behind.  After 20 minutes and 1/2 a bag of gummy worms, the rain let up a little and we headed home.  It was the first time we'd been caught in a rainstorm on our bikes.  Other than the unpleasant wet-seat problem, it wasn't too bad.  It was actually kind of fun in a "trying something new" kind of a way.

Then we got home and made peach jam with our little buccaneer.  Tasty-tasty.