Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't

Regular ole 6 with 5 striders thrown in.  Still feeling good with the training.

I had to take our cute friend, Aoi, to the airport this morning so I had to get my run in with the sun.  I guess that is probably good for me since I'll most likely be seeing some of that on the marathon. 

I just decided to go back and look at my first two marathon reports and remembered this funny story from last year!  : )

Anyway, those who seen me the last bit probably saw a lot of grimacing! During that time, Tom realized that our van key had slipped from his little hidden pocket in his shorts and fallen into a new little pocket, not intended to store keys in. :) As he told me where the key was and watching him try to get it out I got laughing and laughing! I'm sure people thought I was delirious or something, (which I may have been)! And they probably wondered what in the heck he was doing! Anyway, the key was put back in it's proper place, as was everything else and we continued on.

Then I read on and remembered that I said I was going to wait 2 years until my next marathon.....oh well, I guess I forgot I said that.  : )

I would love to run another marathon someday. I think I will give it 2 years though. I want to think only about 1/2 marathons and less for the next while!  

And last but certainly not least....I loved what I said here..... 

A big thanks to a great hubby who sacrificed a perfect year to run this marathon with me!  It was a lot like life....ups and downs, grimaces and laughter, joy and pain.....but together the whole way through!

And I get to have him with me all the way through this marathon too! 

Only 9 miles up and down the streets of SF today instead of ten like we have been doing for several weeks.  Beautiful morning...no moon so it was pretty dark.  The stars are always a nice sight to see!  Still feeling good about everything.  Starting to get a bit more excited each day. 

Today our sweet daughter, Tani, became a 13 year old!  Ya know how there are 2 different kinds of people in this world?  One that makes you happy when they come and one that makes you happy when they leave?  Well, Tani is definitely one that brings joy when she comes around you!  Tom and I are very lucky to have such a wonderful daughter!

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TANI GIRL!  I LOVE YOU!

 Oh, and it felt good to have a rest day today too!  Back at it tomorrow!

When the alarm woke us this morning we decided to ignore it and get a few more Zs.  Tom is taking the day off so we can head off for a nice little anniversary get away, so we decided it was ok to get the run in after the kids went to school.  It was nice to run in the beautiful sunshine today!  The mountains around here are starting to be so colorful!  I can't wait to get down to Fish Lake and see how pretty it is!  Thanks to my parents for coming to take care of home and family for us while we away!

Tom and I got to spend the weekend down at Fish Lake.  We left Friday and came home Sunday morning.  (I'm writing this on Monday).  We are very grateful to our kids and to my mom for taking care of things here so we could go without a single worry on our minds.  We spent our honeymoon at Fish Lake 24 years ago this same weekend!  It was so fun and so beautiful down there!  This is such a perfect time to be in places like that!  The colors of the trees, the mountains and even the water were so vibrant! 

Part of our anniversary plan was to run 16 miles on Saturday.  We figured that since we were at 9000 feet elevation that we didn't need to go the whole 18 that was planned on the schedule.  We took off one direction on the Lakeshore Trail and went out 3 miles.  Unfortunately, even though I thought I was watching carefully, I did a nice face plant in mile 2.  It was one of those falls where you feel like everything is in slow motion.  I knew there was nothing I could do and thought it was really going to be ugly.  But the MPAs (marathon protection angels) were on hand to make it as smooth as possible.  I still feel stiff in my shoulders from catching myself but absolutely no other injuries came out of it! 

After going out 3 miles we turned back to the start and headed the other way.  The trail took us another mile and a half and then started going too far up the mountain.  We decided to come back down and go out on the road and back for a few miles.  We met up with the local cow heard and gave them a little run for their money.  I think we must have threatened them or something so they all started running.  But instead of running away from us they all just ran with us!  Not really my idea of  fun.  The couple in the truck trying to get through the pack seemed to get a pretty good kick out of watching the whole thing!  : )  Anyway, we were happy when the cows figured things out and ran down and away from us. 

When we turned around and started heading back I got a bit of the mental "want to stop" feeling.  We stopped while I drank some Gatorade and then we were off again and the feeling was gone.  I enjoyed the rest of the run back to the cabin.

After showering we decided to walk the mile and a half trail back to the restraunt for lunch.  On our way there I guess Tom was a bit jealous that I had done me a face plant so he decided to add one of his own.  Luckily we were moving slowly at that time and he came out ok too. 

Enjoyed lunch, the walk back to the cabin and a nice nap without guilt for ignoring the family all day.