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I’m in Kansas this week caregiving for my mom and it’s been hard. Dad was in the ER for stomach trouble still happening and undiagnosed because a CT scan would have taken too long and on of my dogs is throwing up randomly on my bed. The mattress I’m sleeping on I just realized is my sisters childhood mattress at least 40 years old maybe 50. I’m a mess. Mom is a mess.
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Only did 3 sets of each the last month from work and recently the flu has me weal.
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OOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFF Jasper hit the deck pretty hard. Broken collarbone and fractured ribs, and he's out. His tour lasted 2.5 days and burned hot and fast. He won the first stage and won the green jersey on the second stage. Then he crashed on #3, and that's that.  Bye Jasper. Recover well. 


Featured Photo: 7/25/2004

My parents made it to the finish line of my second season of Triathlons. Sprints and one Olympic.  My Dad would be dead less than 6 months after this photo was taken.  Mom? Well she lives on and on and on. I'm 33 years old here, and she was presumably 76.
I'm going to drag my into the office tomorrow, and I am going to medicate myself with Mucinex. Today I took Mucinex and DayQuil and I feel a little dizzy. This is your sign not to mix your decongestants. 
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Ugh, no workouts again - I set my alarm but didn't wake up and i didn't do last night even though i could have ... anyway, back at the office with a lot to do still. I felt like i got through quite a bit yesterday but not feeling like enough. 
Tomorrow I'll WFH but i have a dentist appointment in the morning. 
Last night Logan came in at 4:30 saying he had a nightmare and so i let him snuggle for a few minutes and took him back to bed. Usually when he has nightmares we talk about the good things he try to think about and get the nightmare thoughts out. Nightmares can stay with you but you talk to yourself to shake them off. But last night i didn't do that because he usually just argues with me that he can't stop thinking about the bad stuff. But as i was leaving he asked me 'what good things can i think of' - awwwwww - he is listening. 
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Kindly enjoy an assortment of photos from the weekend at camp in the UP of Michigan. It was a mostly lovely time and the weather was great except for some occasional rain.
Most places in the midwest say "cabin." For whatever reason, in the UP they say "camp." No matter how nice the place is--and my parents' place is pretty nice--it's still "camp."
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Back at it with an interval run out in the soup...80 degrees at 6 AM - blech.  Intervals went well for not having done them in a while...more or less held I pace.   

easy/taper version of typical Tuesday Pain Cave workout
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7:27am EDT: When I was walking the dogs over the weekend, I stopped and talked to my 79 year old neighbor, and then her twin showed up. When I was here before, I took care of a very large, heavy delivery for her while she was out of town and she wants to thank me so we're going to dinner tonight. Along with our 85 year old neighbor. So, me and the ladies of the neighborhood are headed to a senior citizen-friendly 4pm dinner. I'm to drive and pick up everyone along the way. It's nice to be in a ladies gang where I'm the young pup of the group, lol.
Trying to get up earlier these days to fit in a proper workout before I start work. Today, I did my dog walk plus a Flash 15 workout -- warmup + 12 minute EMOM. Good, quick workout. I'd like to keep this up.
 
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Driving back to MN
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