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6 hours 45 minutes

That’s all I have left until I’m officially on vacation mode for the next 2 weeks! And I have a feeling it’s going to be a long 6 hours and 45 minutes!

No morning run report today. I forgot Mr. Jeep has an appointment this afternoon and has to leave work early. This meant he had to go into work early to make up the time (isn’t he a great employee?). Most likely I won’t be able to get a run in this evening because an old friend of Mr. Jeep is in town and he’s stopping by so we can finally give him his wedding present. I ran 5.6 miles yesterday morning. The first half of my run I wasn’t feeling all that great. Pretty sluggish actually. So I knew I wasn’t going to have a great time. My time was something like 10:15, still not bad, but not where I wanted to be. Everyday can’t be a great day, so I’m over it.

I’m going to do my best to continue my running while on vacation. We’re also taking the bikes, so we should be able to get a lot of that in as well. I don’t know if I mentioned that the place we’re going to for the first week is the town that Mr. Jeep and I got married in. We haven’t been there since then. We’re both really excited to go back and to show LC where mommy and daddy got married. It’s a beautiful part of Michigan and a place that all people should enjoy once. It’s a town called Charlevoix and it’s in the northwest part of the lower peninsula.

Hopefully I’ll have some awesome pictures to post. I bought a Nikon d40 camera right after Memorial Day and I absolutely love the picture quality. Now I just need to learn how to properly use it!

If I don’t post tomorrow or Saturday morning, have a great 2 weeks! I’m sure I’ll have loads of stories.

Back to the Grindstone

Happy Belated 4^th of July! The weekend was very uneventful and I am really happy about it. I did not go for a run Thursday evening, but I did go Friday morning. I ran 4 miles and my time was 9:01! I am very pleased with the time. I’ll get under 9 minutes one of these days. I was hoping it would happen this morning and it probably would have had I not gotten stopped at a light and by some idiot that refused to yield to a pedestrian. I ran 3.6 miles this morning and my time was 9:05. Still not bad and very happy about it!

Speaking of the idiot that wouldn’t yield to me, this has got to be one of my biggest pet peeves while out running/walking. It irritates me when I’m in a residential area and people are so impatient that they can’t bother to wait the 5 seconds (not even) it will take me to get across the street. Seriously! Is that teensy bit of time really going to make or break you getting to where you need to go? I’ll never forget the one time I was walking our old dog Buddy. I used to take him on the monster long walks and we were walking on a busy road, but we were on the sidewalk. We came to a light and it was red for us, so I stopped of course. When the light turned green I hesitated a couple of seconds to make sure everyone was stopping and then started to go. As soon as Buddy and I took two steps, the jackass that was turning right decided we had hesitated a little too long and decided to go. I had to yank Buddy back as hard as I could, otherwise he would have gotten hit by that asshole! I was so angry! I couldn’t believe how close that car came to hitting Buddy. I’ve even had that happen while I’ve been running with LC in the jogger. My jogging stroller is this bright lime green color and there is no way you can’t see it. I really think people just don’t care. It’s as if once they’re behind the wheel they are the only thing that matters. The ones that irritate me more than anything are the people that go in front of you and then stare at you like you, as the pedestrian, are in the wrong for being out there in the first place. Frustrating!

So anyway, now that I’m off my little rant, it was a really good run this morning. I definitely think I needed the break and it seems to have helped.

We leave for vacation this Saturday. We’re going camping for a week and then the following week we’re going to be at the property up north. Neither Mr. Jeep nor myself like taking vacation in July, but we are. Originally Mr. Jeep was told by his lovely employer that Chrysler would be taking a mandatory two week shutdown in July. Ford and GM have always done this, but Chrysler never has. And they would have to use two weeks of vacation during that time. So we decided on our trip and I made the camping reservations. About two weeks ago Mr. Jeep found out that now they’ll be working during those two weeks…WTF! At first we thought about only going camping the first week and then using the other week sometime in the fall. But after thinking it over and discussing it, we decided that we had already accepted the fact that we were taking a two week vacation and anything less than that would be a let down. I’m looking forward to it. It should be a lot of fun and LC is really geeked about it!

And today it’s back to work after the holiday weekend!

Another sweet giveaway

Just a quick post that Chic Runner is having another sweet giveaway. This time it’s for a Zensah $75 Prize Pack. You get to choose whatever you want for $75. Chic Runner has talked a lot about the arm warmers and sports bra that she bought from them.

Also, as you may have noticed, there hasn’t been a morning run report all week. What’s going on???? Well, Mr. Jeep has been out of town since last Thursday and I didn’t even consider the fact that I wouldn’t be able to run in the mornings while he was gone. I can’t very well leave LC home by herself and put the doggies in charge! Can you even imagine? It would be another Good Dog Carl book all over again (if you’ve never seen this book, you must. Someone should call Child Protective Services on that mother!). I’m looking at the bright side of things of not having run all week that maybe this is the break I needed. I’m planning on going for a run maybe this evening and definitely tomorrow morning. Although the run this evening most likely won’t happen. Mr. Jeep came home 10 minutes before I left this morning, so I’ll want to spend time with him.

He's down and not out

Mr. Jeep went fishing Saturday morning on our friends’ boat with the guys. This is something new for Mr. Jeep, he never fishes. But he wants to get into it more and secretly I think he has mini-man crush on our friend Bill that owns the boat. Bill is a cop/fireman/paramedic and is big into hunting and fishing. He also has guns and great toys. All things Mr. Jeep also loves. Anyway, Mr. Jeep ended up hurting his back while fishing Saturday morning. I think the thing that really made it worse was that he didn’t take it easy the rest of the day Saturday, Sunday or Monday. He got up to get ready for work yesterday morning and could barely walk to the bathroom. He’s had this happen before and it was a bulging disc that was causing the problem. So he stayed home yesterday and ended up taking a Vicodin, which he hates doing. He’s still not better today. He’s supposed to be leaving tomorrow night for Vegas for work, but that doesn’t look like it’s going to be happening. He stayed home again today and is going to try and get in to see the doctor. Hopefully they can do something.

Not so great morning run report

I ran this morning and that’s about all that I can say. I ran 3 miles…just 3 miles. It was very humid and I was extremely sweaty when I got home. And no I don’t perspire, I sweat (very easily I might add). It’s supposed to be 95^o or something crazy like that today. There’s a heat advisory for today here.

We set up LC’s new pool on Monday and when I got back home from my run I walked over to it and for one brief moment considered jumping in. In hindsight I should have; it would have felt great! Instead, I reached in and splashed water all over my face. It felt good, but not as good as jumping in would have been.

Morning Run Report

I’ve decided I’m going to start doing a morning run report. I think this is going to help me in a couple of ways: 1) It will provide a pseudo run log and 2) hopefully help with I think it considered “hitting the wall”. Let’s talk about #2 for a moment. For the last couple of weeks whenever I go running I have had one hell of a time finishing. Usually the first mile is the hardest for me and then I’m fine. But lately every single mile is the hardest for me and I even struggle with *gasp* walking. I never do but I think about it really hard. I went running Sunday morning and did 4.6 miles. I planned on doing at least 6, but I got to the point where I could turn to go home and I honestly felt like I couldn’t run anymore and turned to go home. I didn’t run yesterday, but I went this morning. I ran 4.4 miles this morning (9:07/mile) and I felt good. I ran a different route than one of my normal ones that I choose from, so I’m thinking maybe this helped. I’m going to try and map out some different routes than what I normally do and see if maybe it’s just boredom with the same routine that’s making me dread running.

So the report for this morning was very good. Like I said, I ran 4.4 miles and I felt great. It was starting to get light out when I left. I love the fact that the sun starts rising so early now. I leave for my runs around 5:00 – 5:15 am, so it’s kind of nice that’s it not dark outside. And by the time I get back home it’s really light out. I wish I could carry my camera some mornings because the sunrises are so beautiful. It was about 65^o when I left the house this morning and already was starting to feel humid. It’s supposed to be in the 90’s tomorrow and I think high humidity…summer is here in Michigan! I only passed one other person this morning and saw one rabbit. Oh and I ran through every cobweb in the area. I probably look like a crazy person some mornings because when I have to run where I think there may be cobwebs, I flail my arms out in front of me to clear the cobwebs before I have to run through them. It works, but I don’t always remember until it’s too late.

So that’s my first morning run report. Hopefully it helps me!

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