I'm back.

I know its Wednesday and I’ve been back since Saturday night, but it took some serious recovery to get over the long week with 6 kids under 10. It got a little ugly, they almost took me down, but I won. We spent the first half of the trip at Lake Anna in Bumpass, Va. In case you couldn’t tell from the name of the town, there was no internet, no tv, and you had to drive a half hour just to buy food. If I stood on one leg, half way up the driveway and held my breath, I could almost get one bar on my cell phone. It was actually really nice to be so far away from the rest of the world. Every day was spent on the beach and the boat in the freakishly hot water. Lake Anna is a man made lake, something to do with the nuclear reactor, hence the hot tub water. I was diligent with the SPF but I still got a sexy cocoa butter tan.

The second half of the week was spent at our friends main house in Vienna, VA, just outside of D.C. Lots of museums and sight seeing. My uncle came down from Annapolis on Friday to have dinner with Steve and I (our only 3 hours without any kids, thanks Nana and Papa). Dinner with my favorite uncle was definitely a highlight of the trip.

Uncle Mike is a marathoner, like the real kind. As in Boston. He did two of them this spring, and then hurt his foot, so he’s been laying low on the miles since then. He met us at the entrance of the zoo all decked out in his Boston 2007 shirt, and bayshore marathon hat, coolest guy ever. I’m pretty sure. It was fun to talk to him about running.

I did run twice when we were at the Lake. One 3 mile and then a 7 mile. And then my right foot decided bending was going to be crazy painful, and my shin splints started creeping back. I took the rest of the week off to let everything feel better. I’m going to get back at it tonight. 5 miles. Woo!In other news, my sister and I have decided to do the half marathon in October. We aren’t quitting, I’m not changing my goal, we are just extending the training plan. May will be the finish, either the Bayshore in Traverse City, or the Green Bay race.

I'm slowly catching up with my Google reader, happy running.

2 weeks later....

I didn't drop off the face of the earth. I haven't even been dreading running. I think I just don't have a lot to say for some reason. I have my first 10 mile run this weekend. Luckily, we are leaving for VA on Friday night to go to handsome Steve's friend's lake house. Hopefully the new environment will entertain me enough to not stress over the double digits. Not that I'm stressing, its just a new level for me.

14 weeks to marathon.

I got tagged!

Julie tagged me, so here are 6 random things about me!
1. I used to shoot target rifles and went to college on a full ride courtesy of it.
2. Steve and I live on sugar free Popsicles. We will even get up in the middle of the night to eat a bunch of them. Its 2am and I just ate 4!
3. The only foods I won't eat are anything that involve jerk seasoning and eel sushi.
4. My little Persian baby, Ashley, was a stray cat that I snatched.
5. I lived in Germany for a summer in high school. I can still hear the radio yelling "Guten morgan, Hessen!!!" every single morning.
6. My parents bought my first car at a garage sale and then told me to figure out how to drive it. My dad gave me a quick run through, but then I had to teach myself how to drive a stick.

I have to tag 6 people : Tanushree, Holly, Chris, Karen, Kitzzy, and Terri.
here are the rules:

• link to the person who tagged you.
• post the rules on your blog.
• write six random things about yourself.
• tag six people at the end of your post.
• let each person know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog
• let the tagger know when your entry is up.