Three days from RIGHT NOW, I will be running a 5K! I'm starting to get a little nervous about it - the course is hillier than I'd expected. Riley and I did some (smaller) hills on our run last night, and they were *tough*. It didn't help that, as usual, I'd overestimated the cold and was dressed too warmly in pants and a short-sleeved shirt. The ( Read more... )

Polo kicks my ass. I was too wiped out to run last night, so I still haven't done the 2.5 mile run I'd hoped to get in before Saturday's 5K. I was going to do it tonight, but I have a nasty crick in my neck and shoulder and I wonder if running will aggravate it. Surely if I put it off until tomorrow it won't be too close to Saturday, right? I mean ( Read more... )

Riley and I went for a 2.25 mile run today, our longest without-walk-breaks run ever. It took us 28 minutes (yes, I'm slow, but I didn't stop my watch when I stopped to let him cool off in the lake, so I think our average pace was a bit faster than the 12:32 recorded). As much as I hate cold weather in general, I have to say, running in 40- ( Read more... )

That is all.

I got Riley three years ago today ... can hardly believe it's been that long ( Read more... )

I just signed up for my first 5K! It's the Trail of Lights 5K, and it's four weeks from tomorrow. To date, my longest non-stop (that is, with no walking breaks) run has been 1.75 miles. Eek!

I got to Edward's house last night and there was a big, fluffy squirrel tail in the middle of the living room floor. I'm pretty sure it was from Monday's squirrel, though; I seem to remember it had a pretty skimpy tail.

Poor thing. :(

I suck at "countries visited" (four), but did better with states.


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That's the text message I just got from Edward. Awaiting details ( Read more... )

After a couple of weeks of awesome runs in which I felt like I could go on forever, yesterday's run was pretty tough. It was only a quarter-mile longer than our last three runs, but I realized toward the end that I'd fallen back into my old habit of letting Riley set the pace, which is just a bit (ha) faster that I'd normally go. By then I just ( Read more... )