Each Day Is a Gift

Easy run with Wendy! About a mile into the run, my knee starts to hurt! We cut the run short. Went to the pool but the hot tub is broken (hubby's only reason to go there is to soak his sore ankle) so we left!

Core. Upper body ST. Foam roll and stretch.

Evening: 45 min practice TI swim drills!

Travel day to southern Cal. 12 hours on the road with one hour stop to visit my daughter and grandkids and the Larsen's at a park on Dixie Dr. In St. George!

Legs got really stiff and "sour" the last 4 hours especially when we were stuck in ghe slow rush hour traffic for an hour traveling at 5-20mph on I-605. Stink!!!!

Sis had a yummy dinner ready for us!

Ran along the beautiful trail/bike path skirting the Donald Trump Golf course with gorgeous view of the Pacific Ocean and multi-million dollar estates! :) The right ITB squawked on the decline but ok on the incline! I kept the run short. Ice, foam roll, stretch. Sis. doesn't have wifi in her home, so I'm here at the library.

PM:  Ice massage, foam roll the heck out of the ITB...ouch!!!

:) Happy Thanksgiving!!! :)

Sis and I cooked up a storm.  She actually baked and prepared a lot of the food before hand.  The oven was on ALL day!!!  This is what we made and ate!

Appetizer:  Empanada, mushroom turnover, quiche, spinach stuff mushroom, shrimp stuff mushroom, siumai. 

Main course:  18lb turkey with homemade stuffing (TX toast bread cubes, chicken broth and turkey dripping, chestnut, cranberry, celery, onion), roasted garlic mash potato, turkey gravy, yam (w/ butter, brown sugar and cinnamon), moochi rice (w/ Chinese sausage, shitake mushroom, dried shrimp), Parker house rolls, cranberry waldo salad, broccoli salad, spiral cut honey glazed ham.

Dessert:  pumpkin pie (w/ whip cream), pecan pie, chocolate dream pie, blueberry tart, chocolate cake, brownie (2 different kinds)

Drinks:  guava juice, mango passion fruit juice, sparkling cider, ginger ale, diet coke.  (Red wine and coffee)

All that for 7 adults and 2 children! 

While Joe, David and Larry went deep sea fishing.  Sis and I went to have dim sum and watched movie but not before I went for a run which barely made a dent on the million calories I consumed yesterday! :)

To avoid running down the 20+% grade hill, I drove down to Palos Verdes South Dr.   It was a bit scary driving down the winding steep and narrow road IN the fog!  Thankfully there was very little traffic. 

Ran south half mile on the Trump Golf Course parkway then turned down onto the dirt trails (which had a warning sign stating that beyond this point the trail is steep and uneven).  Saw one guy running up, couple of hikers.  I walked on the steepest hairpin turns and over slick boulders.  Saw two girls running towards me so I asked them if the trail leads down to the beach...yes and also back up to the Trump Golf Clubhouse on the north end.  Cool!!!  The trail is mostly sand with small rocks.  After crossing couple of bridges I took one of the westward trails and ran down to the beach.  I looked up the cliff and saw a lone man standing above watching me.  That kinda spooked me so I ran around the cliff out of his sight.  It was too foggy of a day to enjoy any ocean view so when I reached the beach, instead of running there, I turned around and ran back up.

At the top the trail merge onto a paved trail bordering the golf course.  It was nice to be able to pick up the pace on this trail until it reached the golf course.  I tried to be quiet when I ran around a putting green where some golfers were doing their thing.  Ran about half mile up back to Palos Verdes Dr.   Then I turned north and got a drink from the drinking fountain at Marilyn Ryan Park. 

Continued north on the dirt shoulder of Palos Verdes and passed an elderly couple running single file.  Turned around at the gate to the archery range and encountered the couple again.  We stopped and chatted a bit.  The husband has a "Western States 100" running cap on.  He has run Wasatch 100 in the "early days".  They were very interested in the "Top of Utah" marathon when they saw my TOU shirt.  They're on their run around the entire Palos Verdes peninsula which they do regularly.  They wore no Garmin as they live on the east side of the peninsula and expect to finish their run around 1pm.  I had thought that it is a dangerous route.  The road is narrow, winding, rolling hilly with hardly any shoulder and a 24" wide bike path that are frequented with groups of cyclists.  At some sections there is nothing but a guardrail between the road and the cliff.  Apparently the runners and cyclists here have no fear of fast moving vehicles. :)

After bidding g'day to the couple, I continued south back to the park for another drink and another mile to the car.  It was a very pleasant run aside from the fog.  Right ITB by the fibula squawked as usual during the warm up mile and running downhill but better on uphill. 

Sis took me to Seafood Town for lunch.  We had black bean stir fry clam, Singapore noodle and fried tofu with vegetables.  Yum! 

Ice massage and stretch the ITB while we watched movie.

Our boys brought home 130 fish which they cleaned, scaled, gutted and put in freezer bags.  We steamed 8 fish and warmed up Thanksgiving left-over for dinner.

Hubby drove us down the hill for a quick run.  I ran the same route as yesterday minus the south end of Palos Verdes.  Hubby's right ankle is getting better but he only ran one mile to be safe.

We packed one big box and a small cooler full of frozen fish and individual meals of stew, soup, meatloaf, moochi rice, turkey, ham and assortment of bread for David to take home.  We then drove separate cars to Ten Ten Restaurant for dim-sum.  After lunch, we bid David good bye as he drove from the restaurant to Rt. 91 East back to Phoenix.  It was so wonderful to have him come to SoCal for Thanksgiving.  We haven't seen him since Christmas/New Year earlier this year. 

After David drove off, we went to 99 Ranch to shop for Chinese food...the persimons were $.79 a pound...what a deal!!! 

Joe and Sis treated us to a scrumptious dinner of Peking duck, House Special pork chops, shrimp with Chinese broccoli.  We have dessert every night this week.  Athena here I come! :)

After we got home from dinner, we called our youngest sister in Canada.  It's her birthday today!  I have not seen her for almost 12 years!!!  It was a wonderful hour long phone visit! :)