kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2011 Part 2 - CLOSED (Page 214)

Just catching up here after a long couple of days. We visited my husbands 93 yo grandfather in his new nursing home in MA - so a nice 6 hour trip for us to spend a couple hours in a nursing home. We hit 2+ hours of traffic on the way home in NY to add to the trip and the topper was a vomiting child at midnight! Yay us!

The highlight for me was getting to meet Shaun, was hoping to meet Kelly too, but got to meet their dog Abbey! I'm trying out her old tri bike!!!! Got to pick it up and ogle over it. Hoping to put the pedals on tomorrow and actually ride it! Thanks Shaun and Kelly!

We had girl scout Cupcake Wars today!! Girls had a blast and the librarians (judges) had fun tasting all their creations too! Fun times, but glad that it over...hoping for some normal days soon, but its looking like I need it to January for that! Philly half marathon next weekend!!

Pictures from the cupcake wars?

My girlfriend Claudia is running the Philly half next weekend too.  You two are about the same pace, it'd be funny if you ended up finishing with each other.

Also I need to say I'm super impressed with Abbey's nails.  She screams like a baby whenever I try to clip her nails.

That's awesome.

How does the weather look for the race?

Long run this morning and then lots and lots of homemade waffles.  Definitely made up for the calorie deficit from the run   Now....I'm going to act like a sloth for the rest of the day.

Have a great day, all!

9+ miles with my little running group.  pretty good pace for a hilly run.  my friend allen, who is going through a divorce was regaling us with a story about his trip to some bar in Greenwich, CT to try and pick up chicks.  Sufficed to say it dd not work, but was a very funny story.  

Getting ready for the giants 49ers game, have some friends coming over, hopefully the kids will all entertain each other so the boys can watch the game.  

Where did you see that??  LOL

yes, but no pics till it is done.

Is any one else having a hard time accessing their training log??

I have not been able to get to mine all weekend.

Back on my bike this morning for a Spinervals ride.  Troy used to be Conrad's best friend's mother's triathlon coach (you know, the one who is now a coach herself).  She's in a bunch of the Spinervals dvds.  It's really weird to pop in a dvd and see someone I know really well on it.  LOL

Lots of kids are sick here at my house, so today will be spent coddling the sickies.  Poor Gordie has a nasty cough (probably the one I had last week).  Madge got in trouble at school, so I have to talk to the teach via phone this afternoon.  I'm absolutely dreading it. 

What distance? a prerun of the course is always a good idea.  For a longer race (half or mary), the week before is (for a mary) or  may (for a HM)  be too close to race.  for 5 or 10 k definitely.  You could always bike it too.  

So it's warm here again.  Booo.  Felt like running mid May this morning.  Another 9 miles down today.

Happy birthday Karen.