#runstreak #day200

This weekend was beautiful (again with Jim Carrey, B-E-A-utiful).  Saturday was expected to be nice, but the weather forecast had said that Sunday was supposed to rain.  I told Chris I wanted to NOT go shopping on Saturday this week so that I could enjoy the sun, unlike last weekend.  I woke up, I drank my coffee while watching bad TV.

 I went for a run (which I don't have a picture of).  I got my nails done, both toes (the blue) and fingers, the pink and sparkle).

 and I sat out in the sun (no picture).  My Dad and my sister that lives on the east side came over for the weekend, so we went to my other sister's house (where they were staying) for dinner.  My nephew was there and a friend of my eastside sister.  We had dinner and chatted.  It was so nice.  I really enjoyed my time and would have stayed longer if it hadn't gotten so late so quickly (we left at 9pm). 

Sunday morning I started my morning pretty much the same, coffee and bad TV (by bad I mean "reality" TV on Bravo).  I got ready a little earlier to run.  I decided that for my 200th run I'd go farther than I have for a while, and decided on 7 miles.  The most I've run for a month is 5 miles, 6  miles on April 21, and 7 miles on March 17th. 

 I decided that for my 200th run I'd go farther than I have for a while, and decided on 7 miles.  The most I've run for a month is 5 miles, 6  miles on April 21, and 7 miles on March 17th.  I looked up my last 7 mile run and figured out where to go. Then realized at 6 miles that I was at least 1.5 miles from home, so I decided to go with it and run 8 miles.

I haven't run 8 miles since January 6th.  I definitely felt it while grocery shopping later.  My feet hurt and my legs were a little sore.  After my run we shopped and then I laid in the sun for most of the afternoon.  I really do love the sun.  I love it more now than I did even just a few years ago.  Maddox keeps saying that the summer is the best season, and I can't help but agree with him (now). 

I really struggled with which picture to post on Instagram so both ended up going onto my feed.  I like the shadow and the placement of my hands in the first better, but I like the overall jump and location of the second better.

Just another day of running

Last week the weather was beautiful (does anyone else hear Jim Carrey spelling out B-E-A-utiful from Bruce Almighty when typing it out?).  Saturday was the nicest day and of course I spent the entire day shopping.  =/  I was grocery shopping and plant/garden shopping.  For some reason it took forever.  I was really glad that I did my Saturday run in the morning.

This lovely nest of spiders was in my garden, I almost walked under it, but then I saw it.  I tried to find some raid, but the spiders were lucky, no raid.  They lived to scatter all over my yard. 

Sunday was not as nice outside, which I was really annoyed about.  I thought that it was supposed to be sunny, not as as warm, but still nice.  The sun didn't peak through the clouds until about 2pm.  I finally got up and did some gardening because I had some vegetables and needed to get them planted.  We also moved a small planting bed that needed more dirt.  We threw the dirt from that one into the bigger bed.  The plan for the smaller one is to make a herb garden, but that is going to have to wait. 

When moving the smaller bed, we found some gigantic worms.  I have never seen worms this big. 

This week is much cooler outside, which makes me sad.  I like the sun, and strongly dislike the clouds.  I know that the area needs rain, which we aren't getting, but I would rather have it dump rain for a little while and then go back to sun.  Instead we have these high clouds that obscure everything, but very little rain. 

I posted this picture on instagram the other day . . .

and was admiring my butt in it.  ; ) But then I remembered a post I saw the other day about angles, and I looked at other pictures taken seconds before and after this one and found . . .

Zero butt in this picture taken maybe a second before the other. 

Anyway, this Sunday will mark my 200th day running in a row.  A friend of mine keeps pointing this out to me so I feel like maybe it's a big deal?  Maybe I should do something to "celebrate?"  But there's no way I'm going to run 200 miles, 20 miles . .  I suppose I could run 2.00 miles.  =)  But that's not a long run and Sunday is my long run day.  Maybe I'll just try to take a cool picture or something.  It just feels like another day of running to me.  ; )

Sunscreen and water are always a good idea

I've gotten really bad at posting lately.  Blogger says I only posted 3 times in April, but I guess that's better than March when I only posted 2 times.  I am currently at day 191 in my run streak (after I run today). 

Last weekend I went to my Dad's house.  I wasn't really looking forward to it.  I planted flowers in my yard the weekend before and was eager to get going on my vegetable garden.

Then remembered I had told my Dad when he was at my house over Easter that I was going to his house this last weekend.  Thankfully I didn't have to go home to pick up Maddox and was able to go straight from work.  (I live about an hour north of work and in order to go to my Dad's house I have to go through the town I live in to get there because the east/west highway is south of where I work.) 

*Side note*  Chris's job is changing, it's a really long story, but to try to make it short, the company he works for is being "disbanded."  He currently works as admin there (he was a cable tech before his stroke) and was working Tuesday-Saturday.  Because of the change, his schedule changed to Mon-Fri until his job is done.  He's going to go to the new company as a tech again, which he doesn't want to do, but at least it's a job.  That's why I was able to go without Maddox, Chris could watch him, which I haven't had . . . ever (he's always worked at least one weekend day.

Anyway, I got to my Dad's house and he had just got back from the dr because he hurt his knee.  He was unable to do anything, which was fine.  I was there to visit him and not do stuff.  He did tell me that he bought some flowers and asked me to plant them.  I went for a run Saturday morning.

And saw some deer (they're in the
middle of the brown, right next to
the light brown).

After my run I worked in his yard.  My Mom always had a lot of flowers in her garden and she did a lot of work in her yard.  I planted flowers in my Dad's yard last year because he wanted them but I didn't do any of the spring cleaning up that my Mom would have done.  It was definitely noticeable this year.  Two years worth of debris in the yard is a lot.  I didn't take any pictures of the finished yard, but I was out there a long time.

I wasn't expected mid-70's weather, so I did yard work in my sports bra and was really glad I grabbed a pair of "lounging" shorts at the last min because sometimes his house is so hot.  My sunburn lines were kinda epic though.  =)

I posted this on Instagram with the caption "I found my Mom's broom...I'm not as good at using it yet, but I'm sure with practice I can get there.  Now if only I could find her hat!"  =) 

This week has been progressively getting hotter.  Today it's supposed to be in the mid-80's, which is lovely weather, but not great for after work runs.  On Wednesday I went for a hill run . . . I started running hills on Wednesday to train for the Ragnar.  I felt fine during my run, but when I got done my knees were shaky and I had to sit down.  I almost fell down, but I made it to my outside chair.  Eventually I made my way inside and drank some water, but still felt awful so I laid down on the floor for awhile.  It kinda scared me, but then I realized I hadn't drank much water that day and it was a warmer than usual run. 

I have prided myself on my water comsumption for the last several years, so it's weird that suddenly I'm not very good at it.  Even yesterday I didn't drink enough and had to chug a ton when I got home (after 5pm) so I wouldn't be dehydrated for my weigh in today.  I'm glad I did it, but I ended up having to get up 4 times last night to use the bathroom.  I've been much better today.  =) 

I'm not looking forward to my run this evening.  Right now, at home at 3:30, it's 81 degrees. =/