| 19 Jul Ran 2.25 miles - Had to run on a treadmill at the hotel today. I wasn't willing to run alone on the streets of Chicago. I was just amazed that I got myself up to run. But besides the maintenance run the food has been good enough that I needed to exercise to burn off all the calories I've been eating. 22 Jul Ran 9 miles This was the first run that Teri and I didn't feel like running. It seemed so much longer than the other runs. Of course it was, but you know what I mean. 24 Jul Ran 2.5 miles It was a really tough run tonight. I should have run last night to work out the kinks from Sundays run. But of course I didn't. So the run tonight really hurt at first, but felt better by the end. 26 Jul Ran ~2 miles Tonight was much better than Tuesday. I went just over 2 miles. God I think 10 miles on Sunday is going to be tough. Teri ended up running alone tonight. Diane her walking partner had a girls night out and Crystal had already run. 28 Jul Ran 10 miles We didn't think we were going to enjoy today's run after last weeks experience. Plus we were running at the Long Beach site for the first time. But it all turned out really well. It was a good run. I must say that I'm amazed to be making a statement like that about a 10 mile run. Tonight is the APLA party at Universal Studios, that and church are the main reasons we are doing the long runs on Saturdays down in Long Beach and the short runs up in Manhattan Beach. Plus this way we'll have more people we know at the race in Hawaii. 31 Jul Ran 2 miles Crystal was leaving for Tennessee for her sister's wedding so she ran in the morning before her plane left LA. Teri went out that night with a neighbor doing their regular rounds of northern Redondo Beach. 2 Aug Ran 2 miles Crystal, now in Memphis, got to run in the heat and humidity that is the south in August. But somehow the miles we run (and walked) before heading to Knoxville for the wedding. Teri, like clockwork, covered her miles at home. 4 & 5 Aug Ran 5 miles Crystal, this time in Knoxville, headed up to the gym near her hotel and did her 5 miles in the comfort of an air conditioned Bally's Gym on a treadmill. Teri got out with the Manhattan Beach group to do "only 5 miles." We still laugh at that phrase and how much our lives have changed that we can actually say only 5 miles with a straight face. 6 & 7 Aug Ran 2 miles Teri was a good person and went out on her regular Monday night walk/run. Crystal bagged it after flying back to LA from Tennessee. Hopefully she'll get it together for a Thursday night run or the 12 miles on Saturday morning is really going to hurt. 9 Aug Ran 2.5 miles Crystal got out of her company picnic kind of early and went to run. Unfortunately this was also a day that Teri got out of work a little early, but we missed each other on the run times. 11 Aug Ran 12 miles This was a "bad" running day for Crystal who started to ache about 7 miles into the run. Thank goodness Teri ran off to the 7/11 to buy aspirin. It was our 2nd to last run in Long Beach, as when September comes and Teri's church has evening services our long runs will be able to be done in Manhattan Beach. The big news though was Jinny. She was asked by someone we were running past what we were doing. Jinny explained training for the marathon and asked for donation. Low and behold she got one, a crisp $50 bill. So like the saying says, "It never hurts to ask." 12 Aug Ran 2 miles Knowing she was traveling out of town for business, Teri was a good person and did one of her maintenance runs before leaving. 17 Aug Ran 2 miles Teri and I finally got to run together. Some people in the neighborhood recognize us running and tease us to pick up the pace when we are walking. 19 Aug Ran 6 miles How easily the words "Cool we only have to run 6 miles" have entered our vocabulary! It was a nice recovery weekend run, so all we have to do is prepare for 14 miles next weekend. 22 Aug Ran 2.17 miles Teri has a cool new portable GPS gadget so we can tell EXACTLY how far we run each night. We didn't get out until 9 pm due to work and other distractions. But at least we got out there. |
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