spice

4 more with Spice Beckman around the barn. Fun.

Second

Yes, I am second out of two times posted on strava for the loop around the prairie. It was another 1.3 miler in 10 minutes. No warm up, lotta wind. Just filling the quota, Coulda probably gone big today, but instead I went and mowed my lawn (part of it) and trimmed it and pulled a bunch of weeds. Man, if I've let anything slip this year, it's been yardwork/housework. I can't do everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Inside

All durn day inside. Boring. I felt like garbage. We are all sleep deprived.
Anyway, I finally got out at 11:40 pm and got my mile done. Doggo waited on the corner again. Poor pup.

Derby

For a good ole' redneckin time, getcha some tickets to the crashem up derby! Fights, rollovers, extrication, ambulance transports. It was really fun. Especially to watch my little guy watch it. Oh the girls loved it, too, But boys and crashing cars? Heaven!
This morning was spend riding four wheelers over and over. Up, down, through the stream. Way fun. Then, driving home from camping, I took the Honda Pilot on a pretty awesome narrow, steep, windy, rocky road. Wifey would not have approved and the poor kids didn't know what was going on until it was scary to look out the windows. I was lovin it. The girls were scared. The boy was just chillin. Too young to care.

And, of course before the derby I did a quick onesie across the way there in the usual spot.

Hair

Yes, its gone. Chopped it down to 1/8 of an inch last night. Yikes. It was time I reckon.
After a brutal 3 hour test which left me feeling dumb and wondering if I had just spaced the last year, I went for a quick run. I found out from others that they all felt the same and I ended up doing ok on the exam. The real one isn't for a year, so it's nice to have a glimpse of how it'll be now. ANYhoo! The run...
I wanted to do the fun armstrong to spiro, but time did not allow, so I took the new HAM which cuts off about 3 miles from that loop. It was still gorgeous and fun and lovely. I did it in my fivefingers which is not the  best pair of shoes considering the rocky terrain. Good stuff, though. Love me that area. 6 miles in about an hour.
Then it was campin with the kids and my parents and some brothers and some of their kids. WAY Fun.

Softball

It had honestly been about nine years since I had swung a bat. But froggero and I jogged 1.3 mi to the little league field where 7 grown men had a little home run derby. It was really fun. Then we jogged back with John on his bike. I hope we do that again. It would actually be kinda fun to get a team and play in a league. But, come on, that's not gonna happen. So 2.6 miles on the day. Wow.

hot spot

it was 85 degrees. I put on my bottoms and boots and went out to see if an additional insole would help my heel blister problem. It may have. But I only did 1.4 because the old blister isn't healed yet. I did a 9:20 and it was fine. Of course, I didn't have a coat or helmet. Sent a note to Guinness to see if they could change my attempt to the half marathon without re-applying. Seems more doable.
We shall see...