run this amazing day

1. I wish I had more artistic handwriting instead of my weird little scribbles. 2. I don't like soup. 3. I won a tee-shirt on the radio when I was 8 years old for telling the joke of the morning.  (Thanks for all the jokes yesterday, BTW.) 4.  I don't eat eggs, which means in general I don't like going out for breakfast or brunch. 5. My house only has one full-size closet.  I have very serious closet envy.  I used to have baseboard molding envy. 6. Still haven't turned the heat on (except for a few hours while the redheads were here). 7. Molly likes to blow bubbles in her water bowl.  I do the same thing in the pool when I'm procrastinating starting a tough set. 8. There is only one lamp in my house that I actually like. 9.  I hate putting frozen blueberries in my smoothie because it leaves crazy black bits in my teeth. 10. I can't remember the last time I bought new underwear (not including C9 sports bras from Target). 11. I despi

1. I'm feeling pretty massively overwhelmed by life right now.  I'm swamped at work, we have some things cooking at home that are keeping us busy, and somehow I'm supposed to run a half marathon next weekend. I'm glad that I'm not in a rigid training schedule right now as I'd be feeling guilty about my serious inability to adhere to it.  If I can get through about next Monday, things should calm down a bit and I can hopefully catch up on the rest of life - both my own and yours! 2. I still haven't decided on a goal for Richmond.  I'd like to set some sort of rough time goal just so I have a place to start as far as pace.  I was hoping that the 14+ I ran last weekend would give me a good idea of where I am, but that 14 was coming off the highest-mileage week I've had since February and my tired legs gave me a big fat middle finger when I tried to pick it up a bit at the end.  I'm planning on running 8-10 this weekend on more rested legs and am

What I look like when I'm stroller-checking someone: About 5 seconds before power-puking in a porta-potty. (Gait notes: slight angle of the right leg indicating tight adductors, slight outwards extension of the right foot indicating tight hip flexor, but no sign of the magical collapsing hip .  Not bad for a hangover.) Also, this happened.  Because I need to introduce more changes that have the potential to break me in half. I haven't purchased them...yet.

Until this morning, I had pretty much forgotten that I even set goals for this month, so this should go well: October Goals The goal at Waterman's is execution.  Don't forget.   I guess nutrition execution gets a check? Keep working the Z2 run and DON'T LOOK AT PACE.   I haven't been paying attention to really anything on the watch. Branch out into the squash vegetables.   Wine is a vegetable, no? Don't stop doing the broken butt exercises. I accomplished one goal this month! Take time to enjoy recovery and celebrate!   Another check - I'm enjoying the heck out of recovery. At least for celebration, I knocked it outta the park.  Waterman's was not the 70.3 I wanted or needed mentally to send me into the off-season, but it is what it is and there's nothing I can do about it now.  Post-race, I've spent most of my time running and keeping it easy.  My biggest goal was to simply maintain and slightly increase the base I had going into the 70.