I'm filled up with carbohydrates from my pasta dinner last night. I had my normal pre-race salmon and sweet potato dinner tonight. This can only mean one thing. Tomorrow I run a trail half-marathon!! On Mount Diablo! Yes, one more thing off my bucket list.
The surgery date is getting closer and closer. As it should, right? Less than two weeks now - 13 days to be exact.
As I told you in my previous post, I put Boomer on a diet Sunday. I am proud to report, as of Thursday he had lost one pound. He's now at 38 pounds. He has three more to lose. ;)
Last week I did a lot of fun stuff and crossed one thing off my bucket list. I ran in the Oakland hills at Joaquin Miller Park. I invited Leanne and she answered with a very enthusiastic "HELL YEAH!" This girl has become
It was sprinkling on our entire run. This is Boomer's absolute favorite kind of surface to run on - soft and damp. We rounded a corner and saw a bunch of turkeys on the road. He took off running to clear the road for us. Some of the turkeys took off running while others took to the sky. Boomer kind of looks like a jack rabbit here, doesn't he? If you enlare the picture, you can see the turkeys.
Kristi and I had to stop a few times to remove mud, yes mud, from the bottom of our shoes. At times it felt like we were wearing high heels.
After our run I came home and got ready for work. My head was hurting last night when I went to bed and it was still hurting this morning. Interesting though, I didn't notice it when I was running. Anyway, I had to work at 9:45. I took some Advil at about 11:00 and ate a snack at work. At 2:30 I took my lunch break and ate some of my lunch. My head was still pounding and it had moved into my neck and shoulders. I was scheduled to work until 5:00 but ended up leaving work at 3:10. I was worried it was going to turn into a migraine and I didn't have my medication with me. I came home and slept for a good 90 minutes in our recliner with a kitty-cat on my chest. When I woke up it was finally gone. Thank God! I'm sure this is just stress related.
I did
"MED2010" Accountability:
09/14 - Pilates, 1.5 mile walk, "24SET"
09/15 - 7 mile trail run
09/16 - Pilates, 2 mile walk, "24SET"
09/17 - 2 mile walk
09/18 - 3.75 mile trail run
Until later............
14 comments:
Great photos! Have fun at the half.
And once again, I'm checking blogs/email from my phone while waiting for the dogs during one of their middle of the night potty breaks. Lol!
Congrats to Boomer for losing a pound. We spent the summer getting all three dogs to lose weight. Our 12 yr old jack russell needed to lose 3 lbs to help ease the pains from osteoarthritis. He is so much happier now that he is back at a proper weight.
hooray for boomer :)
Sounds like a great run.
Maybe Boomer can treach Toby a thing or two about going after turkeys.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
I don't remember ever getting mud around here in September. Have fun on Mount Diablo.
Great run and pictures! Mud gets heavy after a while so I always try to remove as much as possible. Mount Diablo is on my bucket list as well but I’m so far from there that I’ll have to wait and see what the future brings.
Yay Boomer!! Beautiful trail pics!
i bet it was beautiful on mt diablo yesterday :) such a nice day to be there! hope you had so much fun :)
i saw photos from mt diablo on RBR's blog. beautiful! maybe next year you should invite me. hint hint.
Love the phots! That Boomer is such a gentleman :) And congrats to him for loosing a pound! He's doing better than me!
I already know you two crazy ladies had a blast! Congrats on tackling that crazy race!
Wow. Beautiful photos. Thakns for taking and sharing them.
Gorgeous run! You are kicking butt on working out, 24Set is tough!!
To be perfectly clear, I am available for Bay Area Trail runs… Hint!!
All the best,
Ron
Pictures look awesome!
Muddy shoes...yep that time is a'comin'!
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