Bert rode 20 miles this morning in 1 hour 17 mins and that includes a stop to take the arms off his jacket. The Dude is awesome.
I ran 5.26 miles in 1 hour exactly. Ok, it wasn't an hour exactly. It was an hour and 2.72 seconds. That includes a 5 min warm up walk. At about 3 1/2 miles I really wanted to stop, but I heard the most awesome Brother Montebello's voice in my head telling me "Your brain will give up before your body does" and "Your body can do more than you think it can" so I kept going and I'm so so so so so glad I did. Go me! =) I'm totally getting my running mojo back and it feels AWESOME! I feel like me again. I feel powerful and healthy and happy again. I feel like Queen of the World again. *happy sigh*
These images are how I feel when I come back from a run:
Why is the text wrapping? It's very disconcerting.
Yeah. This one too. =)
The Loop in all its awesomeness
I was pondering on how much I miss The Loop. I loved that community so very very much. Everyone there was so kind and encouraging. And most people were stinkin' funny. =) Or fast. Or could run a long way. John Wayne and Krunnergirl are so inspirational with their ultras. I am SO going to do that one day. My goal is to do a 24 hour run like Krunnergirl. I'm thinking it will take up to 5 years to reach it. I hope I can do it!
So many people have left The Loop though because of the recent changes, and on the one hand that's really sad. OTOH, it means they've started blogs/advertised that they have blogs and thus I get my Loop fix by blogstalking them.
See Allie? I totally copied your word there. Blogstalking is an awesome word.
Homeschool
We're really getting into the swing of it. Totally blasted through everything in just under 2 hours. Luckily it's his gym class, plus he'll go back to the gym for Parents Night Out tonight and thus we'll get our 4 hours in. I mean really, government! It's just ridiculous! My kindergartener is doing first grade work in 2 hours but you're requiring me to do 2 more just because? Sheesh.
It's Frrrriiiiiday!!!
Gym this avvy. Plus I need to put the finishing touches on my Sunday School lesson. Date night tonight - sushi WHOOOT!!!
Tomorrow it's Soccer pictures so we have to be there at 7.45am. Which means, beloveds, that we're not going to get our bike ride in until later in the day. I love Saturdays. It's the day I get to ride with Bert. =) So we'll be at soccer til 10am, then I've got to whiz on over to the Farmer's Market, then we'll grab a bite to eat and head on out on our ride.
The schedule calls for 30 miles tomorrow, but my beloved is hoping we can go on a 61 mile bike ride the following week, so we might do 40 and see how I can handle it. Should be interesting. The "this is a tough ride" part makes me think "Uuuuuhhhhhh....maybe not."
I had something else I wanted to tell you, but I forget what it is. Oh well, hope y'all have a fabulous weekend. And GOOD LUCK to everyone running Chicago! I'm DYING to hear how Zam did and am rooting for her to BQ. Hope the weather's kind to everyone.
4 comments:
It is an honour to be "blogstalked" by you. (I threw the extra vowel in just for you)
Sounds like you have a busy weekend ahead, good luck on the pictures, that will be harder than the bike ride.
Hooray for feeling great after a run! Hooray for Queen of the World!
My sisters homeschool. They love doing it, but get tired of the constraints put on them. Fortunately, Oregon has little supervvision except mandatory testing every two years. The sister here has much more freedome than my sister in SoCal. They are very watchful and require time when the kids already have their work done.
Natty: Hahaha, love the extra vowel in blogstalked. How does one get the nifty accent over the e?
jgf, that's interesting about your sisters' experiences in different states. It makes no sense to me to require time spent in school when the work is done. I wish all states had laws like MI; they're beautifully hands-off there.
Mmmm.... hourly requirements. Oh joy. I really hope we finish that move we've been trying to make before I need to start reporting: we're in an hourly state right now, but the state we're looking at going to is a # of days state. Interestingly, because of where Monkey's birthday falls in relation to enrollment dates, here things will "count" in the fall of 2012, but once we're there things will "count" in the fall of 2011. It all feels so arbitrary to me right about now! Especially since we're basically doing kindergarten at this point. I'm hoping to start most or all of the things that the Well-Trained Mind outlines for 1st grade in a year or a bit more.
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