We had a perfectly lovely holiday. Ben was off and aside from a one night get away for just the two of us we stayed home and just enjoyed being home. No sports, no classes, no working, some working out, lots of homemade yummy leftovers and lots of down time. This was very needed. Whatever bug we have all had this last month has hung on tight. Everyone still has a bit of cough or snot or both.
I have decided I want to try and keep a running log the old fashioned way. I used one years ago when I briefly worked out with a cross country team during my college years. I finally got the computer program that works with my GPS watch to work so I can also download all the data that it collects and look at what I am doing in the form of pretty graphs and lots of numbers. I also have a running log app on my iPhone that in have used for tracking both my walking and running milage for the last 3 years... So there's that too. Overkill? Yes it is, but it does keep me inspired to keep doing more.
During this time off I still trained. I just didn't get up in the dark to do so. There are pros & cons to this. The biggest pro being that we slept in late many days and it just felt good! The biggest con being that there were way more people out with little dogs. They are well intentioned folk, but not helpful most of the time. They don't get that it is far easier for me to put my two 80lb dogs in a sit and have them carry little 14 lb Fifi past then it is for them to leave Fifi on the ground barking and straining with every ounce of their 14 lbs to get at my dogs who I am trying to run with as fast as I can while they now straining to go say hi. I can hold them in, I have control of them, but it is hard. They are 160 lbs of dog pulling in a sideways direction. And I try and try to convince these lovely people to let me be the one to sit the dogs. I go off to the side, I tell them "go ahead!" But they smile nicely and say no. Maybe I should be more insistent, but I don't want to spend too much time talking when the clock is ticking. Plus it ends up making me feel grouchy and that is the anti-endorphins feeling I am going for.
Homemade pierogies & homemade tamales...I ate this for breakfast, lunch & dinner for days! Healthy? Nope. Yummy? Yep! Won't happen again for another year so I savoured every single bite!
Speaking of grouchy, one of the other pluses of the later time is that folks are much more pleasant. They all smile and say hi, even if they make me drag my dogs by. This morning I did my first o'dark thirty run of the year, and it was quite nice. Except I did pass that stupid couple that is so rude. I was all resolved to continue my "smile say hi approach". Be the better person. Blah blah blah. Then, as they approached and both looked like a sour old couple who'd had their Cheerios pissed in, I gave up. I didn't smile, I didn't say hi, I didn't do anything but keep on keeping on. My lab may or may not have gotten in their way. The good soul in me wants to care, but I just don't. I know that with those two it is clearly a wasted effort so I give up. I'll save my happy energy for other happy people and ignore the sour puss grouchy Adam Henry's. So there.
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