How true! Especially the hungry part. I have begun to settle into a good routine for my ultra training but wow, I could eat all day! I especially enjoyed the extra hour sleep thrown In there...just not the spending at least one of those hours - from 11:30 pm to 12:30 am waiting for the release of Halo 4 with my awesome 16 year old at Best Buy. Good thing he really is that awesome!
I did my first longish run on Saturday with Kevin playing crew, 15 miles down from Xenia on the bike trail, stopping just once for peanut butter crackers and yellow Gatorade, mmmmmmm! Great run while listening to Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. Same author as Gone Girl and also a murder mystery in a non gory style but WOW! Imagine, running on a 60 mile long bike trail that weaves along beautifully quiet yet desolate farms and small towns, fall leaves on the ground, being passed maybe 4 times in 2.5 hours by bikes.....creep factor!!! I jumped several times because of noisy squirrels.
In the meantime, we got through another Halloween with all three kids dressing up.
I managed to squeak out a few extra minutes in the kitchen making spooky treats with Teddy to take to lunch!
And of course we had to have "cheers" before we sent them out haunting.
This week brings a scramble to get ready for the Thanksgiving extravaganza which we host each Thanksgiving Eve. We have a few surprises in store for those that attend and while one of them will NOT be my downstairs finally painted a new color, I figure the fact that at least one of the homebrews has a 6.9 alcohol level it will most likely make everyone forget that I wanted it painted in the first place! (how's that for a run on sentence?)
No, I really can't complain, just thought this was funny! I got home at 5 and dinner was started and Grammy was making her tea by the time I was dressed for my run. When I returned, all had eaten and prepped for the evening activities while I showered and then ate an incredible dinner with Kevin and my shadow Ted. It's impossible to train for big races without the support of your best friend. Kevin not only plans my weekend runs but he also is there on nights like this when I need to leave for an hour and know that dinner/homework is done. Did I mention that he also leaves love notes in my car every morning complete with chocolates??? Really!!!!! Yep, I think I should teach a class on how to knab the best husband ever ;)
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