Test. Test.

Testing out the photo thing.

A couple of campground critters.

He's not very happy with me

I've been a little remiss this past week about blogging. I'm trying very hard not to let this blog go the way of the dodo bird like the other blogs I've written.

Speaking of birds, here's my picture for today. I was out running last night in Burnside. Just a little run while I was waiting for daughter to finish her soccer game. She coaches a U12 boys team. They won. :) While I was out running, I spied a huge ass birds nest on top of a power pole. I stopped. I watched. I waited for big assed bird to crap on my head. He was pretty mean that I was standing so close to his nest. At one point I seriously think he debated dive bombing me. As soon as I was able to take a picture of bird and nest, I was outta there.

That was part two of my evening outing. Earlier I met Zoe for for a little golf at the driving range. Went to Lake Loon in Dartmouth. That was the first time I've been golfing. Zoe gave me a little lesson and away I went. I don't think it went half bad. I didn't completely suck. I missed ball contact more than once. And I actually had a couple (of the bucket of 70) balls that went pretty straight and far.

I've been having a hard go at running lately. The heat and humidity and the horribly bad weekends have been taking it's toll. It's summer. It's camping season. I haven't been able to follow the training plan for the half marathon that I committed to. I really wasn't seeing any progress. Of course not. I get it. You have to practise to make perfect. And I haven't been very motivated to practice. But I had a great little run on Tuesday. It was a two miler. And it's very relatively flat. I made fantastic time. I broke a 12 minute mile. I also had an average pace of over 5 mph. That's awesome for me. But what's even better, is that that last time I did that route (May 31) my pace was over 13 minutes per mile. Now, that's progress.

July Stats

* So if you were following along today, you probably saw that my computer had been repurposed. Repurposed and I hadn't even finished my post yet.

I'm finally getting back to it.

This week: 12.5 miles

This month: 31.4 miles

I didn't have a run in me.

I was supposed to do an 8 mile long run today. I just didn't have the energy. There was just no way I could pull off a long run today. I was also having some tummy issues, so I really didn't want to even go outside. I took my shoes off and said. Nope. That's it. I'm taking the night off. I just can't do this. But in the end, I did 3 miles on the treadmill. Walking.

I think I'm going to have to change my long run day. Working all weekend at the campground, 13 hour days, is just exhausting and is not conducive to a long run Sunday. I think by Wednesday, I should be all rested up to do a long run. The most I'll be running is probably 3 hours. I can do that in an evening.

I did get out yesterday morning with one of our campers for a run. That was fun. We did 2.25 miles, and the W3 of the C25K program. We went out at 9am, so it wasn't very warm.

Here's a picture from our run yesterday morning. This is from the bridge over Texas Lake, where it becomes our river.

Stats

Saturday

Distance 2.25 miles

Time 34:34

Avg Speed 3.90

Avg Pace 15:23

Sunday

Distance 3.00 miles

Time 56:18

Avg speed 3.2

Avg Pace 18:46

July Stats

This week 3 miles

This month 5.25 miles