The Glo run was . . .

. . . OK. It was fun to run with friends, Scott and Kim - but I probably wouldn't do the Glo Run again. There were probably 400-500 people there, but it was a younger group. I was probably one of the older people attending and am probably past the "prime" audience! Maybe I am a running snob - I just don't get the point of events like this - again, I am not their audience!

Afterwards we met Todd at a local restaurant and had pizza and beer and watched the UW Badgers beat Illinois!

Fast forward 1 week! My weeks seem to continue to be split between work and sleep, repeated daily! This coming week is also going to be busy - of course there is work, every day work, early morning to evening! Also this week I have hair appointment and a Road Home board meeting on Monday evening, an eye exam first thing Tuesday morning and a church Endowment committee meeting in the evening and dinner at a friends house on Wednesday evening. Also on Wednesday I will be heading out of the office for a tour of one of our power plants where we are close to completing an installation of some new environmental control equipment. And then Halloween on Thursday. This is more things packed into a week than I like. Is it me, or do you also hate to leave the house once you get home in the evening? I sure do, even going to the grocery store - if I don't stop on the way home, there is usually no way I am heading back out.

Today started with a 10.2 mile run. It was beautiful weather, albeit a little windy, but beautiful for late October. About 8 miles into my run I stopped in the middle of the road as two Sandhill cranes strolled across the street. They were in no hurry - it took me a few seconds to decide to get my phone out and snap a few pictures. I swear they are almost 5 ft tall.

This afternoon we spent some time doing a few things outside, including mowing/leaf mulching and spraying the creeping charlie that is trying to take over our backyard and is trying to creep into my asperagus raised bed. Then we headed to a new dog park, well new to us. I think it has been officially open since spring, Capital Springs located just south of the city, near Lake Waubesa and the Capital City bike trail.

 

Brown dog, brown grass!

Blue sky, green field!

After the dog park we swung over to the boat launch at Lake Farm park. Such a beautiful setting - it has been years since we had been there.

Blue sky, blue water!

One fishing boat was coming in and one was heading out - it is Muskie season - but not much biting today.

Back home, making dinner, writing this post and watching the Packers!

Enjoy the moments!

 

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Sunday

What an appropriate name for the day! The morning started with a nice walk with Sophie. A little fog on the water and a beautiful sunrise.

Lot's of geese and ducks flying overhead and honking on the water. Our neighborhood Sandhill crane's were at the park this morning. Usually they start walking away as soon as they see us - this morning they didn't seem to care that we were walking by.

Once home we loaded up the bikes for a ride to New Glarus Brewery! 42 miles round trip. It was beautiful - days like today are meant to be enjoyed. And we did! Look at that blue sky!

RUNNING: My running has not been great lately. While I have been getting in 4, 5 and 6 mile runs - with a half marathon in a little over a month - I need some double digit runs. That is hard to do during the week, since I run in the morning before work. Better planning and getting to bed earlier are what is needed. I am a person that needs a good 8 hours of sleep - getting up at 5 means heading to bed at 9 - not 10, like tonight! And if I really want to get 10+ miles in before work - I need to be out the door at 5 - not rolling out of bed.

So I need to get to sleep and get this post sent!

 

 

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Trying to keep it simple!

I was getting ready to write a new post and realized I didn't publish this one from a couple of days ago.

I am in a bit of a funk. Seriously I thought it would be over and am trying to tell myself to just get "over it". Looking at pretty much everything as "sucking" is hard work. But it is, what it is, work - sucks, cleaning the house - sucks, shorter days - sucks . . . etc.

No more words - I am trying not to dwell on the negative so probably need to just move on.

Took a walk with Sophie this morning and our neighborhood cranes finally came out of hiding. While I have been hearing them - they have been in hiding and I haven't seen them in a couple weeks.

The lake was shedding its warm and there was a nice layer of fog on top of the water.

It has been a couple of cool days, especially in the morning, Temp's have been in the mod 40's - but I have biked to work on both days this week and got to enjoy pleasant bike rides home. Tomorrow I need (am going to try) to run 5-6 miles and am still going to try to bike to work.

Simple post for a "keepin it simple" day.

 

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