Thanksgiving, Anticipation and Bug Bites

Can it possibly be that Thanksgiving has already come and gone? Wow, that went by quickly. The holiday was fantastic, and Katie did her usual unbelievable job hosting at our house. We had a total of 13 people, down from an expected number of 21. With 13, we were able to avoid spreading tables in an L shape into different rooms and/or using a kiddie table, which would have consisted of everyone under the age of 40. John and Audrey had a great time playing with everyone and the food was outstanding (as usual).


Once my food coma subsided, I made it out for a relatively short run on Saturday, but it seemed longer due to the ridiculous winds that we had that day. I was literally dodging trash cans as they blew across the street.

I woke up on time on Monday (for once) and decided to go a little longer than I planned (5+). I went slower than usual, but felt pretty good. I'm getting used to running in the dark again. It's kind of cool to finish up the run just when the day is breaking.

I'm glad the official training schedule has been posted to the team web site. It's exciting to see what we're in store for related to weekly running and our commitment over the months to come. It will be nice to get out of "maintain" mode and into "training" mode again and I'm looking forward to "officially" beginning the week of the 14th. I just hope I can stick with the others when I'm able to get to a Saturday group run.

I'm hoping to get to the Wednesday night meeting this week, work and sicknesses permitting. I had to pick up Audrey today due to the 101 degree fever she had. I hope this virus passes soon. I thought we were done with sicknesses for a while....guess not. Such is life with a 1 year and 5 year old.