This one's for Mark!

Brrrrr.....  This weekend was just a little bit chilly but the kicker was the ridiculous gusts of wind that accompanied it.  As I was feeling a little sad that my first week back at work was a little less than stellar as far as work outs went I REALLY didn't want to miss another workout.  But I was coming up with every excuse you could think of, I shouldn't take the little guy out in this wind, I'm really busy getting stuff done around the house and tomorrow we're having guests, I'm tired, blah, blah, blah.  Then when hubs got home from an errand we both said to each other "We're going for that run!"  He had seen what he thought was one of our friends running in this weather and was motivated and I heard from another one of our friends that a mutual running buddy of ours was going through some pretty intense physical therapy.  So we got out there and did 3 miles in the windy chill and we were so happy we did it!  We may have looked a little silly and sealed our fate as the crazy ones on the block but as the dog chased leaves, the little guy took a nap snugly protected in his covered stroller, and hubs and I took turns pushing the stroller I had the biggest smile hidden under my face mask!!

Mark you are an awesome running buddy and we have had some really fun runs together, beer run, midnight relay, long marathon training runs, and I know you will be back at it soon!  You are one tough guy and relentless I have faith that you will have a SUPER Speedy recovery!  You are in our thoughts and even though you don't live in this lovely city with us anymore we still think about you and can't wait to see you on DM again!

Back to work!

So I'm on my 4th day of being back at work and on my 4th day of not working out!!!!!!  Yes, it's been an adjustment but I've decided to give myself a free pass this whole first week.  Although I think I'll be able to workout Fri. - Sun. of this week so 3 out of 7 ain't bad right?!???  Apparently I'm doing pretty well considering I haven't broken down crying at work or so I'm told.  So my plan was to bike to and from work each day it's about 10 miles each way all uphill on the way home.  But then I was like ok Monday I need to just concentrate on getting to work on time and making sure A isn't too shocked.  Then I didn't have a spare tube so I didn't want to bike without a back up, then it started raining and we're supposed to have a snow storm coming in.  So I thought no big deal I'll try and get a quick workout in during my lunch, the first day I managed to get 2 mile walk in but that's it and I've had work stuff going on during all my other lunches.  HENCE, the free pass this first week.  I've gotten to work on time each day, only left late 1 day, and my son only ignored me the first day.  The last couple of days he's smiled and happy to see me!!  So he doesn't completely hate me now that he realized I will come home at the end of each day and haven't just run off to be an average triathlete! :-)

My boss really missed me or at least the fact that I get my work done and he usually never has to hear from my departments, apparently his workload was a little out of control while I was gone!  It's nice be missed!  It's been nice engaging my brain again but definitely miss the little guy terribly!  The other day I never laughed so hard when a co-worker was telling me a story about how in her sleep deprived delirium as a new mom she figured out that her daughter kept waking herself up by moving too much or flipping over so one day she put velcro on the sheet and the terrycloth PJs her daughter was wearing held her in place and she slept the whole night!!! Oh man!  She regretted admitting that as soon as we started laughing!

I did it again

About every 2 or so years I chop my hair off and donate it and I just did it again last week!  I hadn't posted it because I wanted to surprise my mom.  So every time before this I had donated it to locks of love but I'm thinking this year I'll look for another place to donate it.  Apparently locks of love doesn't donate that many wigs because it is for such a specialized cause also I know they can't use my hair because I color it so they sell it to get the money off of it to pay for their overhead.  Besides it's good to change things up every once in a while, like my hair! :-)    To be honest I thought she was going to chop more off but she just chopped off the required 10 inches leaving me a spare 3 inches.  booo


She thought I would go into shock but I explained I've done this many times, it's really the only reason I grow my hair out...  And no it doesn't make me any faster when I cut my hair off!!

Speaking of hair I was chatting it up with one of the moms in my moms group (yes I'm now one of those!)  that use to be on a swim team and she said they weren't allowed to shave their legs until their one big meet that was supposed to be their "A" race.  She said it was the best feeling in the world after not shaving for so long to dive into the pool and have water go over smooth legs and even if it didn't make them faster it felt good!  Hmmmm I've never tried that not sure that I'll start now either.  I wander if guys think this too?

So if you haven't noticed yet I seem to need to end all my posts now with a picture of my lil' man! Here you go:

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Oh and I have a cute one of him on my FB lifting weights :-)  Ohhh the things we put our children through! https://www.facebook.com/CautiouslyAudacious

Doggie Dash My first 5k back

What a great weekend!!  I had my first night out since A was born went to see Pacific Mambo Orchestra Friday night with my brother while hubs stayed home with A.  It was great although it felt kind of weird and I was tired since my bed time lately has been 9pm and I didn't get in bed until 11pm!!! :-)

Saturday we went to the doggie dash and hubs and Aiden were cheering me on while I ran with our crazy dog!  Got to see lots of my running friends, it was good to be back on the scene!  I ran it in 27:31 which I am SOOOOO happy with considering I had only put in 3 weeks of training and it's been 2 months since A was born.  We had to make two stops because my poor little dog got some stickers in her paw.  She was pulling me as usual and getting a little distracted when I couldn't keep up but we did great.  As I was nearing the finish someone was yelling great job Aiden!  I thought how do they know my sons name and I don't have him with me.  Turns out the little guy that just passed me (about 8-10 years old) was named Aiden too!  I thought is this a sign of things to come!!! :-) 

Another thing that happened there was we saw another heeler mix that looked exactly like our dog and had the same mannerisms and was just as fast of a runner.  So we started talking to the owners and they adopted their dog the same month from the same Animal Humane shelter and their dog was part of a litter too and was about 2 months old when they adopted him!!  So long lost brother and sister reunited!!  Unfortunately they didn't get along very well :-( we had to hold them to take this pic or they would have gone after each other snarled teeth and all!  Maybe that's how Lexi got the little nick in her ear she's had since we adopted her, a rough litter!  Glad we got to meet them and if they got along we could have all gone on runs together!

Lastly I had to go shopping, I say HAD to because with only 2 weeks left until I have to go back to work I figured I better go buy some work pants that actually fit comfortably until I get back to where I was.  :-)  I can't believe I only have 2 weeks left!!!!! It's going to be hard being away!

Happy Monday!

Look at his little belly!! :-)