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Sorry for the blog silence, been having to do actual work at work.  Dang companies and their expectations.  Don’t they know I have to publish a blog post?

Anyway, I have run the last 3 days straight.  All of the run have been around 2 miles and I ran the last two days without any walk breaks!  I am pretty excited about that and hope to continue to build on that.

According to the fine folks at weather.com, tomorrow’s run does not look good.  Supposed to rain, rain and then rain some more.  I will get up in the morning and check the radar and see if I can get out and get it done.

As usual, nothing exciting going on in Needleland.

Total miles: 23

Run…dog…pain

First of all, let me apologize for the last post being such a downer.  Both grandparents are doing ok.

Now back to your regularly scheduled bad blogging.

Completed a 3 mile “long” run on Saturday…in the rain.  I know.  I am as shocked as you that I went out in the rain to run.

I ran again this morning after not running Sunday or Monday.  Sergent Sh*tcramps decided to pay me a visit on Monday.  That bastard is mean.  Did a nice 2 miles this morning.  Nothing great, but still decent.  I am slowly feeling better.

After my run, I gathered all my stuff to feel my two dogs.  I have 2 Siberian Huskies that we recently moved into the fence together.  The dogs are polar opposites of each other.  Koda, our male, is laid back.  Doesn’t bother you.  Just wants his food and some petting.  Kylie, our female, on the other hand, is spastic.  She doesn’t know how to settle down.  Drives me insane.  As I am trying to get in the fence to give them food and water, Kylie is just jumping all around and over me.  I swing out my right foot (hands are full) to push her out-of-the-way.  Well, I swung a wee bit harder than I had planned and hit the top of my foot on some bone of hers.

Ouch.  Like, I feel like I broke my foot, ouch.  I am hoping that it is just a bruise.  I guess I will find out in the morning if I can still run.

LooMoo, you are correct.  Dogs are evil.

At least this time they didn’t bite me.

Total miles: 19 miles

Stuff

First, a quick running update.  Ran again this morning.  A little over 2 miles in 30 min.  I felt good and I ran the entire 1st mile without walking.  Very happy about that one.  It is very slow getting back into running shape, but I know that if I keep at it I will get better.

Second, both my Nana (maternal grandmother) and Paw-Paw in-law (MIL grandfather) are in congestive heart failure.  My Nana is 94, will be 95 in March.  My Paw-paw in-law is 86.  Unfortunately, I am not really that close to my Nana.  She lives in Topeka, KS and I really have not seen her that much in the last 20 years.  They are giving her some drugs to help relieve the fluid buildup and I am hoping that she can recover as much as possible.  We are planning on going to Kansas in March to celebrate her 95th birthday.

My wife’s Paw-paw on the other hand is not doing so well.  He is in the hospital again now and will be in there for a few days.  He is the closest thing I have ever had to a grandfather.  Both of mine died before I graduated from high school.

I apologize for being a downer.  Just remember to tell your parents and grandparents you love them today.

Total miles: 14

Still on that wagon

Didn’t run yesterday.  Regretted that decision as soon as I walked outside to go to work.  Really have no idea why in heck I didn’t go.  I do consider it a success that I did get pissed at myself for missing it.  In the past…no regret, didn’t give a crap if I missed it.

Nice 2 miler this morning.  Finally had some moments of being “in the groove” while running.  You know, when it feel effortless and everything is just flowing.  Loved. It.

Absolutely nothing interesting going on in Needleland.

Total miles: 12

Craptastic and fantastic

I actually got off my lazy butt and completed my “long” run.  It was on 2.7 miles, but considering that I really have not run much for the last 5 or 6 months…I’ll take it.

No run on Sunday due to this little thing called lightning in the area.  Just felt it was prudent to lay around on the couch and watch Sportscenter rather than get electrocuted.  Poor excuse, but I will take it.

Craptastic 30 minute run this morning.  Everything sucked.  My pace, my effort…you name it.  And you know what?  It was fantastic to be out there having a craptastic run.   In the past 7 days I have run 5 times.  I do not believe that I have ever run 5 times in a week before.  Ever.

There are no “grand” or “big” plans.  As I wrote the other day, this is about me.  Me going back to running because I love it.  Not because I want to run a marathon before I turned 35.  Not to live up to other expectations of my running.  Just for me.  Damn, all this talk about me and you would think I am this guy, or this guy or this guy or that n*t@ack loving guy who left blogland.

Total miles: 10