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January 23, 2007
Escaping the arrival of winter
It's been a while since I wrote, because my husband, Ryan and I all were in Flordia last week visiting a friend of mine. It was a lot of fun. I loved introducing Ryan to the ocean and swimming, which he loved. He smiled and kicked away in the water and never seemed scared or bored of swimming, which I thought was quite impressive (not to mention cute) for a 6 month old. It was a rather tiring week though, since we had the little guy in our room to sleep at night and the house was quite loud with the three of us, my friend, her husband, her 2.5 month old boy and 3 dogs! I did manage to do a decent amount of running, although I missed 2 days because I got an eye infection and could not see without my contacts (we finally got a pair of glasses which I am still wearing). I ended up running 35 miles for the week, which did include a great 10 mile long run (where I invented a loop and actually found my way home) and quite a few strides, even if it was less than I had hoped. The weather I returned to was not quite so running friendly. It had snowed a lot while we were gone and we drove home Sunday in freezing rain, so now everything is really icey. Yesterday I did 35 minutes on the elliptical in the morning and tried to run to the gym to lift with my husband when he got home from work. I did make it there, but I am not sure that you could call what I was doing running, since it was super icey, getting dark and my glasses kept bouncing and fogging up. Today I have a run scheduled (and a babysitter) during the afternoon, so hopefully I will do better with daylight.
Posted by Ann at January 23, 2007 10:12 AM