not enough time

It seems like the weekend hasn't even started yet and at the same time, it feels like it is already over. I am exhausted from two days of timing work, but I managed to complete day 1 of training for the Bayshore...it was pretty simple, seeing as how all the plan called for was 3 miles and strength. It is freezing cold here, -9 when I looked at 9 this morning, so I opted to do my run at the gym. I finished it and did some strength, so I guess that's all I can hope for. Tomorrow, there is a 5 mile run on tap, comfortable pace....


Off to do some grocery shopping....

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MIA

My apologies for being MIA...end of the marking period is today, teacher workday tomorrow, then working for Chuck at the Noquemanon tomorrow night and Saturday. Hopefully I make enough to put a dent in our $900 plumber bill (Insurance is covering $400 of it, but we have a $500 deductible. Hooray!)

See you all on the flip side when life has settled down on Sunday!

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Guess what it's doing outside?!?!?

The camera on my phone is absolutely awful, but yes...it is snowing. I'm currently on the third floor of PWPL doing some homework and I wish I had a better camera! The Front street clock looks awesome through the snow! I'll be wrapping up here in about a half hour and be heading to the gym. No outside exercise for me, I had too much junk to do while it was light out.

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**Edited to add: I just saw kids skate skiing down the street. Granted, I see people skiing down the street all the time, but SKATE skiing requires a lot of snow. I <3 the U.P.

Old habits die hard

...the real purpose of running isn't to win a race. It's to test to the limits of the human heart.
-Bill Bowerman

I've been heartless for 3 and a half years...Grand Island didn't count since it was an off the couch marathon....time to find my heart again.

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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What's in a name...

The first time I heard "lucky loser" at a ski race, I thought it to be derogatory, however, it really is someone who has been given another chance to succeed. We all have our bad days. Matt and I were talking today and I said, "This is the year." Even if I said that last year, there is always a second chance....so here it goes, "This is the year."




A lucky loser is a sports player who loses a match in the final qualifying round of a knockout tournament, but who then enters the main draw when another player withdraws after the tournament has started because of illness or injury. The lucky loser then enters the main draw, normally in place of the withdrawn player. This can only happen until all players in the main draw have started their first match in the tournament.

It's not common in male tennis within Association of Tennis Professionals tournament that a lucky loser wins a tournament, Christian Minussi did it in 1991 in Sao Paolo and Sergiey Stakhovsky in Zagreb 2008 In total 5 people have done it since 1978.

http://www.reference.com/search?q=Lucky+Loser

Accessed January 16, 2009

90 minutes spinning/abs.

20 min easy pace on the treadmill.

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My love affair...