I want to be a loser

Did my 2 mile run this morning.  Good weather.  Trying to post a picture from my reunion.  But having issues.  Today is not my computer day.  Had a hard time at work.  Almost smoked.  But I wouldn’t.  It was tempting.  I just wanted to throw my computer and printer out the door.  But I did get it figured out.  And didn’t smoke or drink.  Prayed. 

This past week has been crazy.  I have done all my running. 

2 miles on Tuesday.  3 miles on Wednesday.  Rest day on Thursday.  I worked early, then drove to Sunriver(4 hours), cleaned my MIL’s vacation home for 3 hours.  Went to bed.  Woke up at 7:30 on Friday morning and threw my running clothes on to do 2 miles.  COLD!!!  In Sunriver it is cold.  When I got back from my run I looked at the temp and it was 26 degrees.  What was I thinking. 

Drove home. 

Saturday I got up and ran my 4.5 miles.  It was ok.  Long. Thankful it wasn’t raining.  It was perfect out. 

Looking forward to this week. 

I am staying away from the candy.  This will be the first year kids don’t go trick or treating.  We are deciding whether or not to even answer the door.  I would rather not have any candy in the house. 

Been doing good eating.  Jeans are looser. 

For the past 5 years I have wished for Transiberian Orchestra tickets. Always remembering to ask for them 2 days before they come to town. Which is almost always two weeks after my birthday. And never getting to go. So this year I made mention of them coming to town but not thinking of it again. I opened my gifts tonight and sure enough tickets to see them. I am so excited. And not only 2 tickets but 4. I asked my dh if we had to drag the kids. As I said this my kids were making faces to each other of “please don’t make us go”. Nope. I can ask who ever I want. I just asked my friends if they wanted to go and waiting to hear back. If they don’t I have one other couple I will ask. Then I will drag kids.

I have been running. Staying on track with Hal Higdon and going strong. As long as weather is permitting. And even if it isn’t my second b-day gift was a rain jacket. I have a rain jacket but it didn’t breath and I would sweat so bad I was more wet under my jacket than outside my jacket.

No Wii Fit. No ipod touch. Will have to wait for Christmas.

Not good eating for the past 3 days and hope to get back on track soon. My boss bought Olive Garden for lunch today. I ate 1/2 my salad and 1/2 my ravioli. Going to eat the rest tomorrow for lunch.

Reunion was last night. Good time. Glad I went with friends. Would have been miserable other wise. Reconnected with a friend and hope to continue that friendship.

Felt good, looked good. If I don’t say so myself.

But didn’t feel good today. Not too bad. So I didn’t exercise at all today.

Will try and go for a walk on Monday.

After running 4 miles today I don’t know if I can run further. I guess I will but it seems impossible.

Perfect day for a run. But if the weather gets rainy, which I know it will, I am cutting back my mileage. I can’t imagine running that long in the rain.

I had my facial yesterday. I think I am ready for my reunion. Even though I am still not looking forward to going.

Went for a 3 mile run on Wednesday.
1.5 miles today. Keeping it in the neighborhood till my path is done. Should be done just in time for my 4 mile run on Saturday.

I did my run this morning. 2 miles. In my neighborhood. My path is still shut down. I did start heading out the door and it was raining. Went back in got my rain jacket, and by the time I was back outside it had stopped. Still ran in my jacket. Boy, it is getting cold.
I downloaded 4 new songs for my ipod. Something to keep me moving.

My wish list for my birthday is an itouch. I saw that it comes with the Nike-plus. I would just need to buy the attachment that goes on your shoe. Add that to my list along with the Wii Fit. Diamond stud earrings. I guess what I don’t get for my birthday I can ask for Christmas.

Tomorrow is 3 miles. I have cleaning in the morning then plan to go for my run.
Tomorrow it is my dads birthday. 78. So I am going to go visit him.

I scheduled a facial for Friday. I am splurging. I love facials. And I love the place that I go. I think it will help me get ready for my reunion on Saturday. I found out we are meeting early on Saturday before the reunion to have a couple drinks. I swear that is the only way I am going to walk through that door. Now we have to figure out who is driving. Probably my dh.

I have two running idols.  Mary Decker-Slaney and Steve Prefontaine. 

In today’s paper there was an article about Steve and I had tears by the time I got to the end of it.    This is the kind of article I need to read before each run.  I felt more inspired than ever.  Did I go for a run.  No.  But today was a nonscheduled run day.  I will think of this article next time I run. 
In the article it talks about a necklace his sister came up with.  And she sells it.  So I looked it up.  I liked it, then I saw the price.  Am I cheap?  Or is $60 a lot of money for a necklace.  Something else to add to my birthday list I guess. 

I didn’t run yesterday.  I had to be at work at 8:30 and when I got up at 7 it was raining.  And by the time I got home from work I was in no mood to go out for a run.  Maybe I should have, it would have bettered my mood. 

Today I got up with my daughter, she had to work today.  Otherwise I would have slept in.  For once the cat wasn’t scratching at the door.  And the dogs weren’t whining to go out.   It was raining, but by the time she left it had stopped.  Then I remembered that my path is closed.  So I drove downtown and parked by the river.  And I ran.   It was windy, but not raining.  I did 3 miles.  Will do 40 minutes of something tomorrow. 

Eating has been ok.  Not the best.  I must be PMSing because I am craving chocolate something fierce.  Maybe have a hot cocoa for snack.  It is that time of year. 

I started this week off good. Sunday did the walk, Monday was a day of rest. Monday was no problem. I worked and then dh and I headed to the beach. Plenty of relaxation there. Was really looking forward to the weather. It was hot in town and weather.com said that it was going to be 78 in Lincoln City. Should have known better. We were getting close to the beach and it was like going from a color movie to black and white. It was gray. Cool, but not too bad. But GRAY.
Tuesday woke up and went for a 1.4 mile run. It was supposed to be 1.5 but I was running blind. Just went to where I thought it was .75 and turned and ran back to the hotel. Then when we left for the day, I tracked it and it was only 1.4.
Dh and I went hiking. This is something I wish we would do more. We live in a great area so I was happy to find a trail. 1.5 miles to the falls. Down hill. We hiked down and had fun. Made it all the way down to a suspension bridge. I don’t like those types of bridges but crossed it anyways, looking straight ahead. When I got to the other side I noticed there was a waterfall. If I had looked around while crossing the bridge I would have seen it.
While we were at the bottom there was an older lady walking with her dog. She was on her way back up to the parking lot. Dh and I bet that the older man sitting in the car back at the parking lot was with her. Dh and I walked around a bit and then headed up. About 5 minutes in to our walk back we caught up to this older lady. We could have passed her and just keep on walking but we walked up the hill with her. She had no water, so we shared. Had to stop a few times for her but it was worth it. She was very well traveled and shared a lot of her life story with us. Come to find out she was 82 years old. Her dh is blind and can barely hear. I told her he is the perfect husband. My dh took our picture when we got to the top and she took a picture of us. She was so thankful we walked up the hill with her. Unfortunately my picture didn’t work. I think what made me smile about that day was she was driving a convertible mustang and she did have the top down.

Didn’t eat the best while on vacation. Lots of chowder. Some fresh fruit. Cookies. Shrimp salad.
Wednesday I was to go on a 3 mile run. But it felt so good to lay in bed for the last time before we headed home. Said I would rest Wednesday and run my 3 miles on Thursday, 1.5 miles Friday.

Thursday I woke up and got my running clothes on, opened the door to let the dogs out and hear the sound I dread. RAIN on my awning. So, I took my clothes off and went back to bed. Determined to go for my run after work. After work it wasn’t raining so I put my clothes back on and headed to my path. Path is closed for repairs. Screw that. I took off running. I made it 1.25 miles out, so 1.25 back. Only 2.5 miles, but better than nothing.
Tomorrow I am going to run in my neighborhood. My path should be up and running by next week.