run this amazing day

In case you live in DC and also in a cave, the weather was gorgeous here this weekend.  After a Saturday morning of GF pancakes (SO FLUFFY!) and dithering, I ended up doing a big pile of hills in Maryland with some friends.  I've spent lots of time on the trainer on my QR, and I've done a few short workouts at Hains Point (flat and windy and no cars to kill you), but I've never done any more climbing than the teeny tiny bumps on the MV trail near the airport.  So I decided Saturday morning, I'd ride the QR.  I have to get outside at some point... The first part of the ride was pretty flat, but once we hit even the smallest hill, my ass got dropped.  I spent most of the first few climbs cursing my serious lack of bike fitness, but as the ride went on and I got warmed up, I started to realize that it wasn't all fitness, but that I was running out of gears a lot sooner than I was used to on my roadie (so maybe 98% I have no fitness, 2% WTF bike).  When we stopped for

1. I hate repeating myself. 2. I keep thinking about moving from blogger to WP, but then I start reading a ton of articles about how to do it and then I read some more articles and then I give up and go drink a beer.   3. I do not like sharing a lane with people doing breaststroke. 4. It's been a really long time since I've been to a yoga class, and I miss it, but I also think it was contributing to my bones-not-staying-where-I-put-them problem. 5. I despise blatant social climbing. 6. No matter who farts in my house, we blame Graham. 7. I still have not yet learned that yelling at the wind doesn't help.  Oh, and eats HR. 8. One of the main things that I don't like about our house is that we sleep on the main floor. 9. I keep trying to like sushi but, fish, ugh. 10. I put an entire bag of spinach in my dinner  last night. 11. My little toe goes completely white when I run in the winter. 12. I really hate how much money we owe in student

1. The cranky weird sore spot I got on my shin a few weeks ago seems to have gone away.  I sticked the bejesus out of it for a few days, which was almost worse than the time I had my adductors Graston'd , and did the usual routine of alternating ice with constant panic about a stress fracture.  When I got back from my holiday travels, I went and saw my PT.  I've been having some tightness in my hamstring for a few weeks - really minor, but twinge-y on longer runs.  She diagnosed me with a tiny bit of tendonitis at the attachment, which is already almost gone with ice, advil, etc. - but also said that my sore spot on my shin was probably a byproduct of my lower leg working hard to compensate.  Strange, how the body is all connected.  So even though "ignore it and it will go away" would have probably worked in this case, I'd still rather spend the $15 to make sure that all my bones aren't collapsing. Sore spot aside, I obviously still haven't learned tha

We took Molly and Graham to the vet a few weeks ago for their yearly round of pokes and prods.  They each got a handful of vaccinations, plus some tests done. A few days later, I noticed that Molly was doing this weird thing when she yawned - she couldn't open her mouth all the way, and she was twisting her head to one side.  I didn't really think much of it the first time I saw it, but after a couple of days went by and she was still doing it, I started to worry.  I figured she probably just had an ear infection and scheduled an appointment with our vet. I got out of the pool a few afternoons later to some pretty terrifying text messages from the poet , who took her into her appointment, mentioning things like sedation and x-rays and biopsies, so I zipped over myself to talk to the vet.  Essentially, she seemed fairly convinced from Molly's symptoms that she has a disease called masticatory myositis, which is an auto-immune disease not uncommon in large breed dogs.  I