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December 13, 2004
Lazy Day
For some unkown reason, we did not have school today. It isn't a holiday or an inservice, but the high schools were supposed to have a half day, which we are not able to provide, so we had the day off. Hey, no reason to kick a gift horse in the mouth. I took full advantage of my day off. I slept late this morning after staying up to watch the Eagles beat the Redskins, en route to a 12-1 record.
After I woke up, I lounged around some drinking my coffee and doing the crossword puzzle. There were a few bills hanging around that could get paid, so I took care of that. Before the end of the year, I must renew my USATF membership as well. I did a little bit of laundry, attempting to machine wash a pair of dry clean only pants. They're old, so I decided if they do get ruined it is not a major loss. They aren't dry yet, so I'm not sure if they are ruined.
Yesterday I did call the guy who I met finally and he called me back while I was Christmas shopping. The ringer was off on my phone since I did not want to be disturbed, I was a woman on a mission. I called him this afternoon and we talked for about 20 minutes, he's supposed to call back later on tonight.
After he and I spoke, I went out to do some errands. A lady who I know is coaching indoor track at a local high school. Many of her students can't afford shoes. She bought shoes for some of them. I saw her when she was doing that and told her that I have won shoes that I hate that I was willing to donate to some of her runners. I gave her two pairs of trainers that have been worn one time each and an old pair of racing flats that were worn three or four times. I dropped the shoes off at her house and then headed over to the dollar store to buy Christmas candy to give away and gift bags.
Now onto running today, since that is what this is supposed to be about. This evening I went over to the track. We actually had a bigger group than has been showing up. We did the usual warm-up loop. This guy C, who I refuse to run with, was pusing the pace. He has this tendency to speed up, slow down, stop, and repeat. We got back to the track and J said that we were going to do a loop that he plans to do pick-ups on come January. I hung back with J and a few of the other guys for most of the run. It may have been slow, but at least it was steady. I did throw in a few stride outs to get my legs feeling better. K and I finished the last mile pretty quickly. We ran for a total of 52 minutes. It was cool and breezy, winter is starting to appear :(
Cookie baking didn't happen last weekend. It is supposed to be this Saturday now. This actually works out pretty well since the track party is Saturday night. I can take all of the cookies we bake to the party so they aren't sitting around the house.
Posted by Blondie at December 13, 2004 07:41 PM