SUNDAY RUN

What a beautiful day for running. A bit of a breeze and the warm sun beating doen on you. I started out without a plan but knew I wanted to go more than what I had done this week. Texans love the warm weather, there were plenty of people out and lots of dogs being walked. I stayed on the trails and did 3.49 miles, not my best but better than what I have been doing.

POTTY TALK

I was coming home from the gym after working with my trainer. We did legs and shoulders. Anyways as I was passing a construction site in the neighborhood I spotted a porta potty. Now my question is, is it okay (if you are out running and feel the urge) to use it? I know you wouldn't if there were workers there. But what if it was the weekend and no one was around.

WIND IN MY SAILS

Today was the day I was going to retrace my run from Tuesday. I didn't know it was going to be so cold or so windy. I had to go back in and get a jacket. Brrrr!
For most of the run I was going into the wind so my time isn't as good as it should be. I must say I'm a bit dissappointed, it wasn't even three miles.

miles run today 2.31 Time 32 min

Total for week 4.61 miles

CARDIO

Today was a cardio day and nothing would have been nicer than to have been outside. However it was much tooo cold for that so I drove up to the gym. I decided to try the crossramp. It is basically like the Elliptical except your arms don't move.I did 40 minutes and 3 miles. Do those miles count the same as running miles? I don't know but by the time I was finished I was sweating pretty good.

HOW FAR ?

I think I would have had a good run today but my Garmin ran out of juice at .50 miles. Therefore I don't know how far I went or for how long. I think I was over 2 and under 4 miles. On Thursday I am going to redo my course so I will know.

Yesterday I was at the gym to rain. It was tricep and bicep day. Shayla increased the weights, I guess I'm getting stronger.

" GET BACK IN THE GAME "

This morning I asked Christy if she would like to run with me."NO" she said. Ali was sitting on the couch listening and replied " Hey! Ever since you came back from the race you have both only worked out a few times. You need to get back in the game, and you need to pretend you never ran that marathon and you need to pretend that you are still training. That way you are more apt to keep training and running your miles."

Not bad advice from an eleven year old. So just because Christy didn't want to go I went on my own. I did the trails in the neighborhood and ran 4 miles.

miles run this week 6.46

CROSS TRAINING

Today was a bit unusal. I met my friend Shirley for coffee and we shared a half of bran muffin. So I guess you could say my right elbow got a workout( those coffee mugs can be heavy). I no sooner got home than my friend called about going to lunch. Well really it was breakfast again. We went to La Peeps. I'd like to say we shared but we each ordered the Wanderer. It was eggs and potatoes with cheese and an English muffin. That wasn't so bad except we were tempted with the banana foster pancakes so we split one pancake. Oh my gosh it was like a giant sticky bun. More lifting, raise that fork. Pick up that coffee mug. I guess you know where I will be tomorrow morning.. the gym.