Five Miles!

Well, life got a little crazy the beginning of the week. I wimped out on working out on Monday, and well, it just got hairier from there! My friend's husband went to the hospital with chest pains and needed me to run her daycare while she was gone. That meant I was in charge of 6 kids (including The Boy) under the age of three, the youngest is 3 months, make their lunch, snacks, bottles, and clean up. She and her husband are clean FREAKS, and I am talking certified. They throw away the first COUPLE layers of paper towels from each roll because they might be dirty from the factory. Seriously people. So, that was some added stress! I worked two days, from 8am till 6pm. It was rewarding, and I am EXHAUSTED. The problem came in that I did not manage to run at all. I barely ran on my shopping spree, but not running while I was home, shameful! How am I going to get to that 100 miles!

So, today, even though I am sore and tired from steam cleaning the living room carpet and starting on scrubbing the grout on my vast amounts of tile floors today, I decided that I needed to go run, and long too! I ran for an hour and managed to log over 5 miles! That helps! I am still WAY behind, but I see nothing wrong with logging a long run every week. After all, that will be what I do when I start training for my half in January.

I really need to write a post on what I think about while I am running. The perfume brigade came and stunk up the whole indoor track, so I ran some on the treadmill. Anyway, I thought about how Laura would get a kick out of the randomness of my running thoughts! Maybe that is why runs are so very therapeutic!

So, goodbye the stress of the last three days, and bring on the massive amounts of in laws to squeeze into our little 1250 square foot house! If I run most days, I will survive, and maybe even thrive!