Joys

Last night, we went to dinner at L'Attitude and then to a Teaching Family Homes benefit at the UpFront in the banquet room. Got to hang out with some friends and some folks from work as well. A good time was had by all until we got home and realized that it was 57 degrees in our house...and the heat was set at 64....

The culprit? We have radiant heat, so yes, it was frozen heat pipes We had an issue with a water pipe earlier in the day, but that was a quick fix (relatively). Sam cut a hole in the wood downstairs, warmed it up with a blowdrier, and reinsulated areas around the pipes. This was not such an easy fix; my guy stayed up all night buying a few electric heaters and worked to warm up the areas in our crawlspace. Around noon, success! The pipes began to thaw....and revealed that they had cracked when they were frozen! Awesome...but then a lightbulb went on. We pay for this darn homeowner's insurance; now is the time to use it! I called my agent (a friend from Munising) and it turns out if we called a plumber in the first place, it would be covered. So now I'm just hanging out, waiting for this guy to finish his job. :)

Good run this morning with lightly falling snow. I needed to do a few miles at race pace, but I wanted to head down and see if there were any decent trails to run on. There are a few down by the Dead River. I took the road less traveled by.

51 minutes (20 minutes easy pace, 20 minutes race pace, 11 minutes easy pace)

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