Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured

Holy Wind!!!  Avoided the wind and went to the Oval this morning.  Several others had the same thought, because it was crowded.  Saw Andee and her neighbors.  My Nike + ipod is dead and I need to get a new foot pod, so I wore my watch and counted laps.  It was a nice relaxing run and a good way to start the week.  Enough of the indoors, back outside tomorrow!

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Today is my son Jake's birthday.  He is 13.  I am officially the parent of a teenager...........

 We headed out today very grateful to be back outside.  We headed on an out & back course that is up hill for the first 3.5 and then down hill home.  We had a little head wind on the way out but got going and felt pretty good. After about a mile we picked up the pace and by 2 we were going strong.  At this point I was planning on  just stopping by the bus stop to say Happy Birthday to Jake but I realized how embarased he would be of his sweaty, stinky mom with frozen hair.    I started to wonder if I could make it home before he headed to the bus stop.  At this point, I began seriously picking up the pace.  I made it home before he left and gave him a big hug and then headed back out to finish up with Paula.  She had just passed my street so I started after her and chased her down to her house.  She walked in her door just as I got there.  I cooled down with another mile to make it 8 for the day.  One the down side today.......This is probably the worst day I have experienced with drivers. Only a very few moved out of the way for us.  The majority didn't even slow down.   Overall a very good run!

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Back to the Oval to avoid snow being blown in our faces and being hit with a car.  Warmed up for a mile and then my friend the Butt Kicker was ready to go.  I hung with him for the first lap and fell a little behind on the second.  Much better than last time.  Thanked him as he headed for work and then finished up with another 5.75 miles to equal 7.25 for the day.  My legs were really tired today from yesterdays run but they survived.  Back outdoors tomorrow.  Hard to believe we miss being outside, but we do.   

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As we ran into the wind today I had a new thought regarding our winter weather.   I wonder if it is like a church calling, it is not going away until we learn to love.  So with that in mind I tried really hard today to "love" the wind.   I did not love it, but we had a good run.  We pushed hard with about 2 total miles into the wind and the rest in a cross wind.  It was good to be back outside and not so good almost being hit by a car.  I guess being in a cross walk with the right away is not enough for some people.  Hope you all have a good day!

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No run today, had to be to work early.   Had a nice drive in the snow......:(  At some point I am hoping winter will end.   

I have been looking forward today for a long time. I have been wanting to get in a good quality long run. It seems like with the holidays and travel it has just been really difficult. We headed out early to avoid traffic and ran a loop around the "big" block. Our plan was to repeat this 3 times and then add on a little at the end. During the second loop there was another close call with a car and I 'd had enough. We finished the second loop as planned and then wove around the neighborhood until we had reached our goal. We had 3.5 separate long uphill miles and then mostly flat with a few down hills. We used to run the loop one time and call it good and haven't run it at all in the last 3 months. I could really tell our training has paid off because the hill on the first loop was almost easy and the on the second loop it was more difficult but nothing like before and then our third hill was slow but not to bad considering it was in the 9th mile. I wish our overall pace had been a little faster but we felt very comfortable the entire time and could have added on and felt great. 

Ave pace 9:04

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