I Probably Should Make My Blog Public again

Ran big circles around the pool while the kids were at swimming lessons. I wanted to make sure I got 3 miles in before they were done.  I made it back on deck just as they were getting out.  So my average pace was a little fast for easy, but I was glad I completed it.  Plus I was only doing 3, so it's not like I needed to sustain the pace (it was 8:19 avg).  

It was too humid, so it was a little hard to breathe.  But at least it was overcast because I started running at 11:05! 

Tomorrow I'm handing off the reins of "my" cross country team to their new coach.  I haven't even met him yet, but we'll meet for a run with some athletes tomorrow morning.  I have so many mixed feelings about giving up cross country.  It is goodbye to 13 years of coaching (10 of them with runners).  It's sad because I know that my chances of coaching ever again are slim to none.

We got a tremendous amount of rain in a short time yesterday.  So when I was driving to practice, first my on ramp for the interstate was closed (for construction reasons I think), but I was driving through the country and had to keep turning around because the roads were flooded.  Finally I made it, but I was about 20 minutes late.  I talked to the new coach for a while, and then headed out for a 2.6 mile run.  I'm still in my running clothes, thinking about running again while the kids are at swimming lessons, but it is now humid AND sunny.  We'll see.  I might just stay gross so I can remain motivated to do a least 2 more miles.

Update:  I stayed gross but I was only motivated to make it an even 4 for the day.  It was sunnier than yesterday.  I ran faster than I did this morning, but only because this morning I was running with one of the slower runners.

I joined the shred crowd.  Did level one after a sorta crappy day that culminated in me leaving my purse in Chicago.  Hooray.

4 miles on a treadmill after a bunch of driving.  We are in Pittsburg.  I should have been more adventuresome, but we had just arrived and I went to the hotel gym.  We had a nice night of walking around the city.

I'm having trouble remembering what and when I ran.  I think this was the only run from our trip that I haven't blogged yet.  I ran early at the hotel and then we spent the day walking around D.C.  Got to see many of the things I wanted to see when we were there a few weeks ago.  Met a really strange lady at our hotel who hinted that she was someone important and then got stranger and stranger the more she had to drink.  She claimed that she founded USAToday and had been on Oprah.  Then she kept asking me what she could do to make my teaching job easier.  I think she might have been hitting on me, but I didn't realize it at the time.  One of the craziest conversations.  Ever.