catching up-part one

next time i will be more careful about what i wish for- so we are home! and still almost overwhelmed by how much there is to be done. when i had thought that we would be getting the cars in shape and getting the needed furniture and signing up for classes and dealing with or very little piece of the world, i had looked forward to that, and seeing family and friends of course also and eating out in nice little favorite restaurants and going to shows and maybe playing golf again. who was i kidding?

and now i spend my time talking to contractors and deciding on floors and walls and ceilings and doors and recessed lighting and clearing out flooded rooms and cleaning up mold and smelling like bleach and tip toeing around crowded spaces because there are three rooms of stuff that have to go somewhere. and i have hit half a bucket of balls in the last 4 days and haven't seen any friends or family and am halfway through cleaning up the mold and the guys start wed. to rip out the walls and we go to pick new doors tomorrow and hope the two we have now will last just a little longer and funny how burned out lightbulbs don't seem like a big deal now. and the lawnmower needs a new sparkplug. but we have -for only $2700 - gotten two cars passed inspection and registered and have one more to go. and for another 8grand we have anew ac system so i suppose we are making progress and i don't mean any of this as a whine; it is what it is. what i mind is that it is now what i want to be doing, that's all. but for awhile we will keep at it.

and i may not play golf, but i am still running as i promised myself that it all gets done after the morning run, that little piece of sanity still there in my life.
and so i ran 11, 9, 8 and 6 the past 4 days since i last blogged a run. they have been decent enough runs, though not as interesting as running in oxford. as i said before i knew that i would miss the running a great deal and i have. besides running in hot and humid weather the runs are very similar as opposed to a new adventure each day. i will spend some time spicing them up in the future, but now i do them knowing i have someone coming to talk or work on the house and must get home.

today it was the drywall guy and we ran a track workout of sorts. gail did a nice long 400 series, but i limited myself to 200's and ran 14 x 200. then threw in one 400 and 4 x 100's at the end. very hot and humid - the times were ok. the legs were tight and the sun rose too quickly. with my cancer checkup this coming friday it would be nice not to get much sun this week.

yesterday's run was 9 miles of hills. not a hill workout but the route i took was up and down mostly for the entire run. where is flat oxford these days? went ok though i could still feel some of saturday's 8 mile run with several 6 minute pickups along east blvd. friday i simply ran 11 miles on the trail up to belle haven and back mostly. got 50 miles in last week with 2 track days and some striders and fartlek. no real long day, but had 3 runs of 9, 10 and 11. will ramp up one good one soon.

and missed my book club mtg here. could not help it as it was on a sunday and i had hoped to fit it in, but just couldn't. will figure out a better strategy for the next time. hope to get to philly this next weekend if my appt friday doesn't turn into unexpected surgery. dinner bell tolls, back a little later.