Run

Today was my long run day, as it is for most people. I went 8.5 miles in1:47:24, which for me is pretty good. It was 12 minute something miles.

I've run faster and I've run slower. Today wasn't about speed, in fact, I had to slow down because I started out too fast. Today was just getting some distance in.

I was able to run a lot of it, walked up a couple hills and walked down a couple.

Now, 12 hours later, I'm feeling a bit of a pulling in my hip. I need to use my foam roller tonight before I go to bed. Otherwise I feel pretty dang good.

I signed myself and Linda up for the Fiesta 5k Ole in Seattle next weekend, at the end you get a Margarita and tacos. She's always up for a good food run.

Then in June on the day before she does the Victoria 70.3, I'll run the Harstine Island Half Marathon. They are hoping to get 100 participants so I'm thinking since most of WSTC will be in Canada, I might have a chance for an age group award. Even if it's just a pat on the back. I know it's going to be self timed. That's ok too, it only cost me $40 to enter and having races to do will keep me going better.

Linda and I are doing SEE JANE RUN in July, we are both doing Irongirl in August and I hope to top 10 there.

I need to get signed up for Black Diamond Half Ironman because it's the right time in my training for a practice half. I know that course, or most of it and it's local enough. I could certainly do a practice one on my own like I have done in the past but it's fun to do it in real competition too.

Computrainer still isn't hooked up, I need to get that set up so I can sort of a feel for the Ironman Arizona course before hand.

Trail Run

Linda and I went on a one hour trail run yesterday and got lost, ended up going 6 miles in 2 hours. We walked a lot of that last hour simply because it wasn't on our training plans. But it was a super nice trail to be lost on.

 

 

 

FUN Run today

Today was the inaugural Bremerton Marathon, they started out running around Dyes Inlet, out to Chico and into Bremerton.

I started just before the bunch of hills on the right side

What was unique was that if you wanted to do a half then you started out running and half way around the bay you stopped (in front of Silverdale Cyclery) and handed off the bib to your partner and then that person did the second half.

Steve and Linda did that and when she got to the aid station I was working at slightly before mile 20 I started running with her.

start of my 6.5

She completed 13.1 miles and I ran 6.5. I felt great the whole way because I had to go slow, at her speed. With her RA she cant run fast any longer and she was getting really tired so I took her hand and pulled her up the hills. I was glad I could do that for her, she's done it for me before, more than once.

End of her 13.1 and my 6.5 miles

I feel great, since I had to go so slow. I couldn't go all out at any time and I didn't go twice as far either so for me it was a training day.

Before I started running with her I helped out at the WSTC aid station for 1.5 hours, I had so much fun and saw so many friends. Along the way I saw more friends and it was such a nice day.

Also, its Hagens 11th Birthday!!

We never thought she'd make it to her tenth last year since she had been diagnosed with that tumor on her spleen.  Tonight to celebrate Im going to make her a Pineapple Upside Down Cake. She loves that and I love her.

New Farm Blog

I started a new blog about updating the new farm, you can find it here http://countryhomeredo.blogspot.com/ . I'm going to post befores and afters of all my home redo's and the projects I complete around here. There should be a lot of them and they could potentially go on for years to come.

With the old farm its not sold yet, half a dozen people have seen it and most want a real house, not a mobile. I personally think its priced too high but this is what Kim thought it should start out at. She better get it sold fast, I can't afford another house payment on my VISA.

Last night something killed one of our hens, she had gotten out during the day & didn't get back into the hen house for night. Stupid chickens.

Wifi is going to be returned to training next week with Delicia. I can't wait.

Argo, Amy's Freisian mare that is the same age as Wifi, is staying at the old farm with my horses for now. The owner of the barn she had been working at got all pissy and changed the agreement so Amy left. Shes already found another barn to work out of and its a nicer place during the summers, in the winters it floods quite bad. All the turn out and the arena are too wet for winter use.

I have to go get hay and store it inside the foaling stall in the old barn, under lock and key. I don't need any more of it getting stolen.

Amy brought over a lot of grass hay for her mare, its nice hay but the guy charged her way too much for it. Its the same crap ORCHARD GRASS that he sold us for an outrageous amount. Fucker.

On The Market

Finally, our old farm is on the MLS:

http://www.coldwellbankerbain.com/Home/WA/Port-Orchard/9635-Ramiller-Lane-SE-98367/34027324

So funny its got to be true

Heard a funny rumor yesterday, a horse trainer sent nude pictures of himself to the wrong person. She showed them to another trainer, he told a lady I know and she told me.
I told Sarah G, that HATES MY GUTS, because I knew she would tell the person who received the pictures that this was going around.
Suddenly, I am the person who made all this shit up. Seriously, this is too funny to have been made up. This shit really happened. So I told everyone who-told-who so the chain of rumor is known. At least I told someone who would tell the first lady, instead of me, a virtual stranger, telling her.
And the girlfriend of the picture sender, who knows if she knows or not?? Shes the one I really feel sorry for. I mean, her boyfriend ACCIDENTLY sent nude penis pictures to another lady, when he was TRYING to send them to a guy. Whoa. I don't care if hes gay but don't be hiding behind a relationship with the girlfriend to cover things up.

So here is the chain of rumor:
E took pictures of his penis and sent them to J. J showed them to C, who told B and A about them and that's who told me. I told S, who told J and J is mad that all these LIES are being told. So I told J that C told B and A.

Don't take nude pictures of your penis.

Up For Sale

My Ironman training has been suffering these last few weeks due to allergies and working on the old farm. It will officially be on the MLS for sale tomorrow morning and we are praying that it sells fast. I don't want to be sitting on it for another month or 6. Actually, we simply cant sit on it for that long. We could rent it out but we still need to sell it.

Once its sold we can spend money on the new place. We need new stalls and fencing and I hope there is enough cash that we can do that AND pay off all our old bills.

But my training isn't going to suffer long, I still have my bike on the trainer and can ride it any time I have *time*. and I can run when ever I *want*.