Wow...what a morning. We went from the decision to sleep in this morning and not go to the gym to an all out crazy run (for me, that is). Since we're off for the next few days (leaving for Ocean City a little later for Minister's Institute--a conference for AG pastors in our district) we originally thought that maybe we'd skip the gym this morning. But, we decided we had better go.
So, we slept an extra 30 minutes and then headed to the gym. My 8k training required 3 miles on Saturday, which I didn't do (Heidi, my running partner, and I couldn't get our schedules together this weekend to do our Saturday run together). This morning was supposed to be 2 miles. I figured I'd do 30 minutes on the elliptical machine and then hit the indoor track at the Y (which, by the way, is so small that you have to run it 17 times to equal a mile). I wasn't sure I was up for 34 times around the track, so when I overheard one of our gym friends saying he was going out to run, I said I'd go with him. Boy, did I not know what I was in for. We ran about 3.5 miles (I clocked it afterward just to be sure).
It was good to have someone to run with but I hadn't planned on going that far. Had I not been running with him, I probably would have stopped to walk for a minute here and there. But, I didn't want to cave, so I kept going. And despite feeling like I want to die, I'm glad I did it. So that was this morning's grand adventure.
Now I'm off to get ready, pack things up and we're headed out. Hopefully we'll have Internet at the hotel and we can keep you all up to speed...wouldn't want to leave you hanging for a few days, now would we? If they don't have Internet connections then we'll be back on Wednesday to catch you all up.
Now, finally, here's today's word:
truculent (adj.)
fierce and cruel; eager to fight
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