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October 26, 2007

Oh sorry. I've been a little busy.

We moved. We now live very, very close to Town Lake, I mean, Lady Bird Lake Trail. It's amazing. It's stressful. It's chaotic.

Did I say it's been stressful? It's been really, really stressful. Our old house just recently went on the market, too, and there's that added stress. Seems like since we put in the offer on this house the news of the housing market has been relentlessly bad. Stop it already!

There have been so many things to do, but I have managed to get in most of my running. And I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing. It's so easy to run most of the time, because it's the first thing I do in the morning and there's no question on how to do it. With moving, there are so many different ways you can do things and different people to deal with, and unlike running, where the Garmin ticks off the miles for you, there's no telling when (or if!) everything will get done in time before the movers show up. Running is just too easy not to do when everything else is crazy.

And then there's the movers themselves. They don't make things easy for you at all. And if you don't get things right they're ready for your mistake so they can screw you. They're awful. Although I didn't know it until 8:45 pm on the night we moved, we apparently hadn't agreed to pay the guys enough to move boxes up the stairs. (I certainly told them there were stairs in the new house.) So they decided to only move a random few into the house and leave the remainder in the garage. Awesome. There are boxes stacked up three rows deep in the garage. I hate the movers.

But I can't believe we're here. It's been a goal of ours for a long, long, time to live centrally, and here we are. What do we wish for next? How 'bout a sub-three marathon? Probably not this time ...

Tomorrow is the LAST 20-MILER BEFORE PHILLY. I can't believe it. I'm barely even nervous about it, except that I had deep-dish sausage pizza and beer for dinner. That wasn't so smart. But it was really really good.

Running this week was pretty uneventful, which is a real blessing since the rest of life is way too eventful right now! We did have a really hard track workout on Wednesday. Remember I complained so much about 6x 1000 at 5K pace two weeks ago? Well, Wednesday was 6x 1200 at 5K pace. The rest was pretty substantial, though, so it seemed pretty doable. I think I was a little slow overall, but not too much so. I didn't know where the charger for the Garmin was, and my Timex Ironman went kaput a few weeks ago, so I was carrying Andy's watch in my hand and was having a really hard time seeing splits. So I just ran and decided to just run hard and look at my splits when I got home. I looked at them once before Andy erased them on me. There were a few quarters over, one or two under, and most right on.

Last night was a recovery run; a beautiful October night out on the trail with a full moon and tourists (there's a big spine surgery convention here in town this week) lining Congress Avenue to see the bats.

Crossing the 20-mile marker in a marathon gives me the chills. Finishing that last 20-miler of a marathon training cycle makes me wanna jump for joy! Hope it goes well tomorrow.

Posted by jenandmats at October 26, 2007 8:32 PM

Comments

Congratulations on your recent move. How exciting, although stressful! I hope your 20 miler went well.

Posted by: Caitlin at October 27, 2007 9:40 AM

Congrats on moving! Please see my donut blog entry for further appropriate encouragement. :)

Good luck on the 20 miler!

Posted by: Meghan at October 27, 2007 9:47 PM