I can do it. I will do it NINE times!

Crazy one! My sister dropped me off in Pago Pago and there I shopped around, spent forever finding awesome shells on the beach and wandered around for a while. At Utulei, the 6 mile point, I took off on my run. Pouring rain! I got completely drenched. On the way home, I had to carry all the shells I'd found in my camelback and boardshorts pocket, but I was listening to The Killers and ran fast! I ran in my swimsuit since it had looked overcast when we left home. Big mistake - I got major chafing on my right inner thigh. It was even bleeding when I got home. :( Next time I'll just use my swim top and not bottoms, that's for sure! And I stepped in a big puddle that had a pothole in it and rolled my ankle. But overall, it was an awesome run with the insane rainstorm, cool weather, fast running and bewildered looks from Samoans thinking "Who is this palagi running along the road in the rain?" Good times! (DS3 284.5)

Slow, stiff and tired miles today! Ran easy 5.5 to the Adventist place and back. Mostly I died and tried to sleep. It didn't work, but I'm done now and that's happy. I really need to sleep more. And do less crazy stuff. No, I like doing crazy stuff. But the sleep would be good. And getting my Garmin charger sometime soon. Oh well. (Adrenaline 288.1)

In the afternoon, Everett wanted to run, so we ran a mile. It took 9:30-ish. Not bad!

Slept in (8 am, yay!) and went on a new run with my bit of Garmin battery life. Woo! It was crazy and I'm tired out! I ran out along the garbage walk trail and around the whole airport on the fence trail (stopping at airport beach along the way to look for shells) and back home on airport road. Airport loop! The rockiness and thick bushes made for some hard, slow going at some points, esp. all the washed up coconuts along the garbage walk, but aside from some sore ankles, it was a good run and I enjoyed going somewhere new. (DS3 291.5)

Yesterday afternoon we went to airport beach with the boys and Everett left behind his shorts (not swimsuit, just shorts) so I went on the airport loop again today to pick them up. And since it stormed a lot last night, I brought my camelback empty to see if I could find a big, shiny, newly washed up cowry - I did, but it was pretty hammered - and got a couple nice shells while I was at it. The crazy trail running is wearing me out, it was a lot slower than I'd anticipated and my left ankle is really sore. So, probably I'll run on the roads the rest of this week. Fun though; I  got rained on halfway, plus I didn't fall into any blowholes! Victory! (Adrenaline 295.1)

Slow, tired, stiff and boring. No dog fights, no rain, no trail, no beach, no fun! Almost got rained on, but no suck luck - just got drenched in my own sweat as usual. Getting kind of lonely here with nobody to run with. And I can't even go exploring since my watch is out of batteries. Hopefully I'll find a buddy sometime. My charger won't be here in forever since my family shipped it without the customs forms, so I won't get it until they re-ship it here with the right paperwork. It'll be a while. Woo hoo. Kind of a downer of a day. (DS3 297.5)

Rainy rainy rainy! Ran a loop from the house around on the airport road until it ended and turned onto the main road and came back for a nice 9-miler in the rain. I got completely soaked  and ran through some huge puddles -bigger than at Murray!- one was up to my knees it was so deep! Woo hoo! Crazy run, glad to finish off week two of Samoa running! (Adrenaline 304.1)