Why hello, how are you?

It's March 28th and I've only posted one time this month.  I was doing so well with posting weekly. Oh well.  What have I done this month?  Well, I'm not sure you know this, but I went to Hawaii.  =)  And since then, I've done a lot of nothing.  I have been running every day at least a mile.  Today will be (haven't run yet) day 148. 

I don't have a lot of other stuff going on.  As I sit here, I don't even know what I wrote about a month ago.  I suppose it was running related stuff.

Well, I haven't felt like running lately.  After coming back from Hawaii I've been in sort of a funk.  I am running, and I'm doing a mile a day, but I just don't feel like it.  There was a day about 4 days ago that I really, really felt like skipping it.  However, I thought about whether or not I would regret giving it up.  I honestly felt like I would not, but I know that I've felt that way before and have regretted not doing whatever.  So I put my clothes on and went for a mile run.  Like I've said, the longer the streak gets the more I feel like I can't stop it.  Then I wonder if I should just stop it now so that I don't get too, too high in days. 

I'm also not running long distances.  My go-to long run has been 7 miles.  This week I "only" did 6.2 miles.  Since the time change I've been running my one mile runs outside.  It's usually still light outside when I get home and I think that my treadmill is dying.  The walking deck feels like it has groves in the spot where my feet fall, so I don't know how much longer I'll be able to use it.  I don't know how much it costs to replace that part, or if it'd be better to just buy a new one (with no money). 

One thing that I realized after I got home from Hawaii is that I only ran 1 mile 3 times out of 9 days.  And the week I came home I only ran 1 mile one time and that was on Tuesday March 5th (whenever I write that date I assume everyone knows the significance, the day my Mom died, but really, only those close to her remember) and we had a very busy day that day.  That was the really sunny morning, and then we went ziplining, then we went in search of the sunset. 

While we were at this spot we stopped for a break.  I had set up automatic texts to go to my other sisters at 5:59 Pacific time, the time my mom died, saying I loved them.  Well, while we were sitting there one of my sisters responded right away saying she loved me too and it made me realize what time it was.  So I mentioned to Nancy, and then we started crying.  But I would say it was the best place to be at the time of my Mom's death a year later.  I couldn't have asked for a better spot.  

We released a blue and white (my Mom's favorite color was blue) lei at the pier where we went to watch the sunset. 

So I've been running, not a ton, but still running.  I'm not going to make 100 miles (I wasn't aiming for that) in March, but it will be my highest mileage month in a long time.  Actually, I forgot Sunday is still March, so I will make 100 miles.  I haven't reached 100 miles in a month since September 2017, when I was training for my last marathon.

I have also paid for my part of Northwest Passage Ragnar that happens in July.  In fact, I was looking at my countdown app yesterday and that is only 105 days away, a little over 3 months.  I can't believe it's already that close! 

I love the spring, and I love spring flowers, so I had to share this picture from my run 2 days ago.  The only problem with spring flowers is they only bloom once and then they're done for another year. 

A few photos

I have about 10 min, so I'm going to "dump" some photos today, a week after getting back.  I have 400+ photos in my phone under the Hawaii folder, but don't know if I will post more later. These are some of my favorites.

 The view from our condo

 My run as soon as I got to Kauai.  I was so excited to be not sitting on a plane (6 hours to Honolulu, then another hour to Kauai) that I ran 2 miles instead of 1 (I didn't have time for more or I would have gone farther).

 The sunrise from our condo.

 Just another view from a run (I have a million pictures just from my runs because it was so beautiful).

 In 1992 there was a huge hurricane and it destroyed a chicken farm, now there are chickens everywhere, and I mean everywhere.  I just thought the chicks were cute.

 At the beach after a hot hike.

 This was a fun hike. Seriously, it is so pretty.

 The luau that we went to.  The fire dancer was the coolest part.

In Hanalei (you know "Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea in a land called Hanalei, yep, that's this town).

 Don't smile when taking a selfie snorkeling under water. . .

 Another sunrise run.

 A very cool red dirt water fall.  There's a whole clothing line called red dirt shirts (you can look it up) the clothes are "dyed" with this dirt.  It doesn't come off if you touch your clothes on it.

Have I mentioned my love of cemeteries?  We went to several.  This one was an old Japanese one.  it was amazing

I did a lot of sunrise running.  It was probably the best part of my trip (I know that's a little weird).

Another cemetery.  This one had a grave from a year ago of a guy who was my age.  In Hawaii all the grave sites have a border, you can kinda see that in that picture.  Anyway, the guy's family had painted the border blue and then wrote on it with chalk.  I definitely teared up reading it.

The Kauai Coffee Plantation

This blow hole supposedly spouts very high, this was the biggest one I saw.  My sister said the water isn't usually this calm in this spot.

My favorite snorkeling picture (well, other than the smiling one above).

Nancy and I went ziplining on the anniversary of my Mom's death.  It was amazing and a lot of fun (Nancy is the upside down one, I love that picture)

The amazing sunset we had on March 5th, my Mom's death day.  We went to a pier and released a blue and white lei, toasted my Mom with champagne and watched the gorgeous sunset.  It was the only sunset we saw (we were on the east side of the island).

Scott, my brother-in-law, took me to "Secret Beach" (it's not very secret, everyone I told about going to Kauai told me about that beach).  It was a pretty wet day, but a lot of fun.  The last picture is of the trail back up to the car after a bunch of rain.

We saw a turtle on our last day.  I was so glad we did.  We saw a monk seal on our first day, but I didn't take a picture.

My last sunrise run.  Seriously, this is what I miss the most.

The outfit we got Maddox.  =)  He was being "hula" in the picture.