Musings of an adventurous empty nest mom on everything under the sun.
How's your weekend starting out? Mine is fabulous. Why? Well because I love my new Saturday mornings. I know, I should be sad about 15 no longer playing spring sports - specifically baseball. After all, that's the sport he's played the longest. 9 months out of the year essentially since he was 5. And as... Continue Reading →
So it begins eh? The annual Springtime Weekend Only rainstorms. Charming. You know what this is forcing me to do today? Get in my weekend run today. After work. Or, more specifically, I am going to run home from work (thank god that's mostly downhill this time). So please, keep that rain away until much... Continue Reading →
What the heck did I ever do to you? How can one little hour have so much impact? Por ejemplo - last Sunday I joined my running buddies for a 90 min trail run at San Elijo Lagoon. We had to get started before 8am because they have follow up the run with a swim... Continue Reading →
I'm feeling a lack of inspiration...or..*motivation*...when it comes to the blog. I think I need to switch things up for a bit. A few of the sites that I follow pretty much use their blog as an online journal. They write in what feels like a stream of consciousness style and while I've thoroughly loved reading it... Continue Reading →
First off, I slept like crap. It was almost like my brain treated this as a race day event and therefore it could not stop visualizing the run and I tossed & turned like a maniac. Dammit. However, that also allowed me to bounce out of bed at 5:30 and grab some toast & energy... Continue Reading →
So, today (Thursday), I found out that Friday is Run To Work Day. I would insert a link here to the blog & Facebook event, but I'm posting this from my phone & don't know how to insert links. (added!) My laptop is still at work & Alex is occupying the PC. Anyhow, as the... Continue Reading →
I know, I know, you are dying to know how the 5k went after all that build up. So, to dispense with that - Alex finished in 22:40, I finished in 33:16 - we both thought the last hill was hell - however, I actually kept running (albeit more slowly) up the whole thing whereas is... Continue Reading →
I love that there were Shot Bloks in one bag! Those are my favorites. 5k runners start at 8:10 tomorrow. Due to parking being nasty at the location, we have to catch a shuttle at 6am so it will be the usual o'dark 30 wake up call for a Sunday race even though it isn't... Continue Reading →
Of course, studying can't really happen unless there is music in his ear. So, he has my old iphone 3Gs which is now basically an Ipod touch on steroids - it still has all the apps and music on it from when it was mine. His own phone is off to his right. He was... Continue Reading →
And one more thing... After more than a week off of running since the race, I eagerly got up at 5:30am today and run for 25 minutes. I was thrilled there was daylight. I was thrilled to be back out on the pavement. It was cold, but I didn't care. Up hills three times. Still... Continue Reading →
Trees & Flowers & Birds! 