Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't

Today has been one long workout!  I am ready for some Zs!  Ran with Tom and then with the Iwanna girls.  Then off to St. George to paint our condo.  My mom and dad are here helping me while Tom is keeping the fort together at home.  I thought we were going to be able to get away without painting the ceilings, but when we got here we realized the ceilings needed it too.  I'm not sure how Michelangelo (sp?) did his amazing work on a ceiling like he did....my neck and shoulders are sore just from what we did!  Still more to do tomorrow.  I hope it looks good when we are done.  Painting seems like an easy thing to do yourself, and it is, but it's also hard work!  So glad I don't do it for a living!  We'll see if a run happens tomorrow or not.

I was able to get 5 miles on the bunny trail in St. George this morning before getting back to the painting. Bunny count was only one. And it was just the cute little cotton tail end of the bunny as it hopped behind a bush.

The sunshine was fabulous to run in! I think I could get use to that! Today was perfect down there. I'm sure you southern Utah guys and gals wish it could stay like that for awhile and not get up into those hundreds!

But here I am back in good ole Spanish Fork...hopefully I won't be being pelted with hail tomorrow morning!

My mom, dad and I got a lot done at our condo the past few days! They are awesome! Their prices are good too....they just work for food! Thanks mom and dad! Love you!

Spanish Fork is different than St. George.  Had to wear warmer gear here this morning than I did yesterday morning down south.  Started off a bit sluggish but started feeling it toward the end of the run.  Missed my speed work this week.  Maybe I'll add it into part of my long run on Saturday. 

6.75 on my own this morning since Tom wanted to sleep in a bit longer than I could. It was actually quite perfect while I was out.  It had been raining but had quit and the wind was not bad at all. 

Then I met up with my Iwannarunners.  Today was their first 25 minute run with no walking!  I am so proud of them!  The ones who have made it this far are doing very well!  Almost every single one of them use to think they could not even run for 5 minutes!  They went about 2ish miles.  Since I run back and forth between the lead group and the final group to help cheer them all on I am taking one of those two miles to add into mine. 

And now it is snowing and sticking to the ground!  Grrrr!  I don't want to run in snow anymore! 

Waking up at four forty AM on a wintery April 30th to run in snow is just wrong!  Wrong, but still fun.  We had to go early today because we had to be in Ephraim by 9:00 to get a seat for   Snow College graduation.  Congrats Cam and Rurika!  Camron graduated in arts and his darling girlfriend, Rurika, graduated in science.  Such a nice day for them!  

Even though it was winter again, I must say, winter sure can make things beautiful!  Running up the trail with the snow covered trees around us was just as pretty as it could be.  There was a hawk sleeping in a tree about 4 feet above our heads.  We stopped to take a closer look at him.  He let us look for a moment but then swooped down and over the field to a new tree where no one was staring at him.  He gave us quite a little startle!