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

45 min elliptical

ab ripper x

Seminary is tripping me up. MR was doing airborne ops this am & couldn't help drive.

I had time to run 4.25 miles, then drove to church, ran the other 3 at the park near the church, then drove home & got ready for work.  Everything was rushed.  Good day for speed work I guess.  

warm up, 3 miles speed (8:29, 8:29, 8:22).  Then when I got to the park, I had to warm up again (I tried starting fast & it my knee wasn't on board).  So another slow mile (10:10) then a fast mile (8:02) then a cool down.  Avg pace was an 8:44. 

easy slower run.  maybe recovery run is the right term.   

another morning without MR to help with the seminary drive, so I had to break my 7 miles up into 2 shifts.  It's either that or wake up at 4 am... and I'm  not in the mood for 4 am yet.

So I ran 1.8 out on my fancy new paved road, turned around & came home.  Then drove to the church & ran 3 plus more miles at the park. 

Buccaneer 2 doesn't get her license till February.  I hope I don't have to do the double running am shift often. 

shiney eyes staring out at me from the grassland along the cow fence.  Orange kitty in the grass.  Just chilling and keeping an eye on me.  Good morning little kitty friend.  Wanna take a ride on my pirate ship and be my pirate ship rat catcher? 

slept in a little, ab ripper x, then walked at the park while little one went to seminary.  Long run tomorrow & I wanted to have a day break for my knees.

Longest "long" run I've been on for a long time.  Waited too long to get out, and got caught in the sun.  The temps weren't high, but with the direct sunlight and humidity I got overheated a little and had to take a couple breaks in the shade.  

Wyatt ran with me, and water boy kept us company.  So did 2 snakes.  One large black field snake slithered across the road around mile 5, then around mile 8 Wyatt did a hop, jump, little yelp as she jumped over one on the road.  She was running just behind me, and I'm a little concerned that I didn't see it first, but in my defense, it was small.  We got a photo of him as he was in the grass along the roadside. He's maybe only 12 inches long- a baby.

I'm no herpetologist, but Wyatt said it looked like some variety of rattle/poisonous snakes, and I'm taking her word for it!