I Probably Should Make My Blog Public again

Just an easy 4 miles.  My knees must've taken a beating yesterday on all the hills.  Today I could feel it in my left knee particularly, even on just slight rises.  Other than that, the run was pleasant.  It is cooling off a little tonight.

I've also decided that my body is just used to night running.  I'm going to be changing up this week because my husband's last day is tomorrow.  So we'll see how long it takes me to adjust OR how long it takes me just to go back to my preferred nights.

Ideally I would have liked to run a few more miles, but this was a bonus run.  I wasn't sure I was even going to get in a run, but my hubby just went to work until about 10:30.  I was able to get in 5 miles before my niece, nephew and SIL came over.

Not sure really how many miles I did, but it was close enough to 7.  

I had XC conditioning today at 7.  I got to the meeting place 1/2 hour early to get in a couple miles before.  It was raining and I was wondering what the turnout was going to be.  Ran 2 miles in the rain.  I felt stiff on the first, but my second felt better and was faster by about 30 secs.

I came back to the meeting place with 10 minutes to spare and started worrying that no one was going to show.  But kids (and my assistant) started showing up within 5 minutes.  We had two groups, a fast one and a slow one.  I let my assistant take the fast group.  The slow group was a little slower than me.

Ran Kaufman route and went a little more than 2x around the lake.  We then went up to the entrance by the stoplight instead of heading straight in and took advantage of the downhill by the softball fields.  It was approximately 5 miles.  By the time we were actually in Parkland, the group had splintered and I was running with Clare.  She said she felt like she wanted to throw up, but still stayed with me.  I think she'll be a decent runner this year. 

By the way, I just want to highlight the fact that it was raining this whole run.  It was pretty cool, but the rain wasn't ridiculously hard.  Just constant.

Too lazy to map this run.  I'm just guessing on the distance based on the time I was out and the effort I was putting into this.  It was an easy pace in perfect running weather.  I got off to a late start because of area thunderstorms and then I was told I had an hour--no more--to run.  I was a minute over :)  

Weather was perfect.  It was dripping a bit, but not really raining, and it was nice and cool.  I wore a new sports bra that I got from Target.  I wasn't sure about it, but it was comfortable to run in.

You'll be happy to know, dear blog community, that when I weighed myself at my mom's house, I was 148.2.  I haven't been gaining weight mysteriously.  My scale at home was just conspiring against me.  Suddenly I feel skinny--I'm still 148 after eating Flat Top on Tuesday night (love the food, hate the price, but it was my birthday dinner) and eating Papa Murphy's pizza yesterday.  I'm now going to throw out my scale when I get home, or at the very least give it a stern talking to.

My mom wasn't happy to hear the news, as she has been gaining weight according to her own scale and she was hoping it was wrong.

When it wasn't raining, it was over 90 degrees...

Yesterday's rain meant my husband had to finish his work starting early this morning, so I did a night run.  I tried to wait as late as possible so it was a little cooler today.  We hit 90 again today, but it was cooling off when I started running at 7.