like sands through the hour glass....

Sometimes my life feels a little bit like a soap opera.
The same things happen over and over. 
The only difference is what I am wearing.

At least in my soap opera life I only run.  I mean no one dies
(of course they would be miraculously brought back to life by my little known medical training at the last moment), I don't have an evil twin and I didn't become pregnant by my sister's husband's half cousin while evading the law since I was on run for robbing a bank to finance the experimental surgery one of my children needed to save their lives.

Gee all that running gives me waaaaaaaaay too much time to think stuff up.

Friday pm run ~ 6.5

Saturday am run ~ 3.5

Sunday am run ~ 3.5

Sunday pm run ~ 4

Monday am run ~ 3.5

Tuesday am run ~ 3.5

Tuesday pm run ~ 6.5

The Friday Five

Welcome to the Friday Five.

A post where I attempt to tell a story based on five photos

which may or may not actually go together.

Run #102 ~ Thursday p.m.

There once was a girl just like you

who everyday would lace up her shoes

and off she would trod, on road or on sod

through an occasional corn field or two.

While running one day

she found this in her way

and instantly knew what to do

she'd dig out the rocks 

so she could go running in socks

just like the barefooters do!

I spy with my little eye...

....something that is GREEN.

Tonia @ Racing with babes had a great idea to show everyone what we see while we are putting in all these miles.  So although Sunday's run was less than photo worthy, Saturday I did manage a decent run of 6 miles.

Here is what I saw:

A little late on this one.  I started at my front but forgot the pic until I hit the road.

See there is NO shoulder on roads in VA and encroaching vegation everywhere.

Pretty to look at but not running with a jogging stroller friendly!

This is much closer to my speed!  This gets me off the lined road.  LBM seems to enjoy the bouncy ride.

A long tar-and-chip side road

 Coming back out the tar-and-chip long side road - boring

There is a trail ahead to the left (just before that utility pole) that I take

It is beautiful in the trees!

Back on our "drive."

This was run # 94 (Saturday)

It was really hot.  I forget what a difference there is between PA and VA!

That's what I see when I run in VA.

Lots and lots of GREEN.

What do you see?

Admit you made a mistake

Run# 93 (3.5/28:xx) Friday a.m.

It just dawned on me.

You know how everyone is wearing capri pants?  They are not quite shorts so you can wear them to work and they're not quite long pants so you don't feel as hot.  In fact, I don't know a lady who doesn't wear them.

You, too?

Well, my moment of genius came today as I was wearing my blue capri pants.  I realized that the capri pant was probably born from some one trying to not admit that they had made a mistake.

You don't believe me? Well let me explain.

I theorize that in some big fashion house there was a designer who was sending an order of pants to their manufacturer.  In submitting the design they inadvertently wrote down the wrong length. 

See my brilliance?

Not wanting to admit they had made a mistake, they claimed the new fashion was intentional.

So now we are all walking around in flood pants so that someone did not have to say they made a mistake.

So next time you are looking to offer an excuse, a reason or out right deny that you made a mistake, consider the consequences.

So before taking pictures of your behind becomes viral in bloggy land let me be the first to say, close up of my backside.  Maybe a mistake.

I'm just saying.

Change the way you look at things

Yesterday I realized that I was stuck in a photographic rut.  It was pointed out to me that uh-duh there are only so many ways to take a self portrait when you are holding the camera.  With that being said, Biking Sherpa embraced the idea of changing the way we look at things in an attempt to show a different side of me....

Literally.

LBM helped too. 

So over the next few posts you will get to enjoy the often unflattering extremely sweaty ways to look at, well me.  All so you don't get bored.

With no race on the horizon,

(nothing registered for but several I am still dreaming about.  Maybe Hubbs will get on board with a few!)

my boring running streak and little else to talk about I need something to keep your interest, right?

Like cute pictures of the kiddos

Or silliness from the Biking Sherpa.

If all goes well the streak will reach 100 around Tuesday or Wednesday. 

What do you think we should do to celebrate?

I'd really like to win all the great giveaways I have listed below but that's not really a celebration now is it?

So give me your ideas and let's see what I can pull together!

Run# 92 (6.5/53:18)

Jamie @ Running Diva Mom is hosting a Zerbert Baby products giveaway

Stacie @ Impossible is Nothing is hosting a Road Id Giveaway

Tricia @ Endurance isn't only physical is hosting a GoLite giveaway

I wasn't even trying

I noticed something when I was uploading photos to post today.

I taken the same photo very very often.

You probably noticed this long ago and wondered if it actually was from a different run.

Let me assure you that I actually do simply wear the same outfit that often.  I just get stuck.  I wear it for a couple runs and then wash it.  Since I hang my running clothes to dry they end up on the top of the laundry pile so that is how I end up grabbing them again and again.

I thought they were so similar that I would share my crazy routine induced chronic photo poses with you so that you could compare.

This is after Run# 90.  6.5 miles (52:50) with LBM Wednesday evening.  I am not really smiling because I am tired and sweaty.  It was the first "longish" run since the Ultra. 

Compare that with this morning.

This is after Run# 91 3.5 miles (27:16) this morning.  Oddly my entire shirt is sweated wet this morning when last night with double the miles my shirt still had dry spots.  I legs felt nearly back to normal after this run.  I may even go the day without my compression socks on.  (I've been living in them!)

Notice how similar those two photos are!  Now you might think that was a fluke, not so.  Compare these to photos from the 90th and 91st runs and then you'll see that I am completely driven by habit!  Only the background and amount of sweat changes.

Scary!

Run # 90 Wednesday evening.

Run # 91 Thursday morning.

I think habits are good and bad. 

It is healthy to shake thing up every now and then so don't be suprised if you start seeing photos of me from an entirely different view!

The Gross Truth

We had an unexpected suprise last night.  Hubbs got home!  Although he had appointments to take care of we were all happy to get a little extra time with him.

Bug-man (littlest) and I went to a quick 6.5 mile loop (52:11) hoping that hubbs would be able to get a little rest since he is working nights right now but when we returned he had not been able to fall back to sleep and he had to leave for an appointment.

The kids and I tried to get a new spring header photo taken but the camera (or my photographer) kept focusing on the lovely yellow traffic sign instead of little Bug-man and I. 

For your entertainment, here are a few failed photos.

Oh!  You noticed that I am AGAIN in my redish pink One More Mile Kick Assphalt shirt and capris with my bondi bond over my visor.  That's right I get stuck on an outfit and wear it to death!

In fact this morning I got a solo run of 3.5 miles (27:22) and I wore the exact same thing!

Here is the gross truth.  Prepare yourself.

Since I run so many doubles I often wear the same outfit in the evening that I wore in the morning.

Okay.  Get over it.

You would think that I would have amassed a huge supply of running outfit.

Not.

I tend to be so entrenched in my routines that it carries over into what I wear. 

But I am trying to change.

TMB @ Racing with Babes showered some bloggy love on little ole' me this morning!  She inspires me to want to care more about how I look while I am out there sweating up a river. 

When I grow up I want to look just like her...neon and all!

Thanks TMB!

I get to share the love with five wonderfully inspiring bloggies.

MCM Mama @ MCMmama

Cynthia @ Balls in the Air

Aneta @ Confessions of a Rambunctious Runner

Char @ My Lifes a Marathon

Jess @ 21 Days