Happy Easter and Passover and MARATHON MONDAY! Here’s how the week in training went:
Monday: Swim
Tuesday: Run 1- and 2-mile repeats
Wednesday: Bike 18 miles + Swim
Thursday: Rest
Friday: Run 6 miles from hell + drills
Saturday: Strength Training
Sunday: Run 12 miles
Don’t let the blue sky and cute capris fool you. This run was sheer hell. Here’s about the only stretch I wasn’t walking and swearing. Just kidding…kind of. The bright spot was these awesome Skirtsports Pocketopia capris I won from Deb’s giveaway. Love them!
With the exception of the run from hell on Friday, it was a solid training week but also a week seemingly filled with small annoyances:
- It’s been 10 weeks and Thing 1’s new passport is still MIA.
- I got a new phone that refuses to pair with any of my Bluetooth devices
- No bluetooth = no music on the run as someone already absconded with the earphones my new phone came with. I kind of hate that my old standby Yurbuds are now obsolete.
- I flat out forgot to wear my Garmin for my bike/swim brick so I’ve got no data. Apparently I’ve become a glutton for stats.
- The top for my Nathan handheld is missing. Seriously how could I have lost it? I already checked down the garbage disposal (eew) and I fear it got swept into the trash.
Like I said small annoyances. First world problems for sure. The phone problem is solved. I’m over the lost Garmin data and the passport? Well we have some time. I guess that’s why you leave plenty of time when you deal with the government.
The good news is Mother Nature decided to have mercy on us and gave us a stellar weekend-ful of weather. Like seriously out-of-the-park, drop-dead gorgeous. Saturday we headed to the Botanic Gardens because the teenager had a photography project she needed to finish. Let the record show, this pic of us is not part of her project. Heaven forbid the ‘rental units be part of that.
Sunday I lived on the edge and got my run in dark and early intending to be back before anybody woke up looking for Easter baskets. Success on that front! Look how gorgeous the sunrise reflected on the water. Total serenity and the perfect reward for banging out 12. This was my 16th year doing baskets and an egg hunt and I have to say, now with bigger kids (my name is Marcia, I have a tween and a teen and I still do baskets and an egg hunt) I made the egg hunt bigger and crazier than ever. You’ve got to let out the crazy, right? That’s why I run!
How was your week? Egg hunt/baskets/treats or no? Do you dwell on annoyances or shake them off? Did you enter my giveaway?
To all the ‘wicked fast runnahs’ in Boston, have a great race and enjoy! You are awesome!
This week’s Tuesdays on the Run topic is Foolish Running Mistakes. Um yeah, I’ve made a few. Stop by and share yours!
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So glad that you love your capri pants they are my favorite style. All those little annoyances seem to all happen at the same time 🙂 Have a great week
At least you looked cute on your run from hell. 🙂 Love your capris.
I’m usually pretty good about letting the little things slide, but I do usually need to vent about them a little first. 😉
That photo on the water is stunning! I’m so impressed you still did baskets and an egg hunt – my boys were being Easter scrooges this year (is that a thing?!) But I couldn’t pass up doing chocolate bunnies and a few fun treats.
Happy Easter!
That sunrise is spectacular! What a glorious way to start the day. I usually can let annoyances go, but not when I’ve lost something – that drives me crazy. When the passport arrives I will tell you our passport horror story from my son’s first passport – we did get it in the nick of time, but it took a call to our Congressman to find it and FedEx it to us ….
As much as I try to shake off small annoyances (remember that weirdo co-worker?), somehow, they keep popping back up in my life…and get a little bigger each time. Sadly, I have given up on the Easter baskets. Last year was my first year of boycotting…and (go figure) the kids asked about them. And, prior to that, they acted like they could care less.
Go big or go home, right? My boys loved their baskets. For the first time in 19 years, I found a dairy free chocolate bunny (Tom is allergic to dairy). He was godiva and he was dark chocolate. Talk about winning. I also found Lindor Truffle eggs for Matthew. It’s always nice when your teens get excited!
Those capris are super cute. Very springy! That stinks that you can’t find the top of your handheld. It is always something isn’t it?
Really cute capris!! Sorry to hear about your run from hell. Glad to hear you got some great weather! Your pic on your 12 mile run is beautiful! 16 years of egg hunts, you are amazing!!
GIRL IM SO WITH YOU ON THE YURBUDS!!
Those were my faves…I thought I just couldnt find em by ME? It didnt occur to me they were no mo’!
Great work this week! I hate dealing with annoying things but like you said they are really just minor. We did an egg hunt for my niece who it only 2, so it really just involved putting eggs around the basement and telling her to go pick them up and put them in her basket. Her attention span for it was about 3 minutes but I think she had fun!
I have enjoyed all of your pictures on IG last week! You are looking strong! The view on your 12 mile long run is gorgeous! I have a teen and tween plus a 6 year old too so yes I definitely made them all Easter baskets. We had an egg hunt at my mom’s after church yesterday. Even my teenager hunted eggs. Swoon! Glad you had a great week and hope this one is even better!
A lot of 12 milers this weekend. Love your view.
I was scheduled to run 12 but just ran a 5 mile race and added 6 fall-interrupted miles instead.
Nice pic of you and the hubby. Hope your daughter gets her passport soon.
Sometimes I can shake off the small stuff; sometimes I can’t. Usually when it’s been piling on for weeks and I’ve just reached my breaking point — we all have one.
Of course running is one of my outlets and that just heaped more frustrations the past week. But it’s a new week and a new day and we’ll have a nice couple of days before April Showers return. Have a great week, Marcia!
Sorry that you had a hard run 🙁 but I loved your capris! Glad that the phone situation worked out as well. I cannot run without music!
Especially great pics today! How long do you wait before you submit another passport application? That is tryly annoying.
Enjoy the Boston broadcast… I am PVRing it as I write!
Beautiful pictures! I love Easter and I miss the big Easter egg hunt! I did them every year until they all moved out. It got pretty competitive when they learned that there was a $50 bill in the golden egg- love that kind of stuff! Now if they show up for church I buy them lunch, oh how things change! I try hard to shake things off but that dang passport would be rubbing me the wrong way about now!
What a good week of workouts. That is frustrating about the passport, I hope it turns up soon.
Sorry about all your annoyances lately, ugh! The capris were the first thing I noticed in that picture, lol…super cute! Hope you have a better week!
Sorry to hear you had such a horrible and all those little annoyances. Looks the the rest of your workouts were awesome! Love those pants!
That sunrise does look gorgeous. Sorry you had a bad run before that, though! Those are the worst. But you look like you’re flying!!
I didn’t do baskets this year, first time ever! The at-home kid got a little candy and some money. I didn’t dye eggs either (#slacker) but made devilled eggs instead. We did hunt eggs with the grandkids though. That’s always fun. I’m glad you had some nice weather this week. I left my running watch at work over the weekend. Big annoyance! Thanks for linking, Marcia!
I solved one annoyance by getting an iPod nano this weekend. I was tired of my phone yelling at me due to limited space between music and pictures. Thankfully my Yurbuds work with the iPod.
Sorry about your annoyances. Those are the little things that can totally derail me so I get it.
We were traveling the early part of the weekend, so we dyed egg on Saturday night and little man did a hunt on Sunday with the eggs that the Easter Bunny left. He was thrilled!
Great training log as usual Marcia. Friday’s run – don’t we all have them….:) I have been having issues with headphones and my Garmin and last week I ran with no music and no watch. #backtobasics
I love that you are still rocking the egg hunts for your teenagers – way to go Mommy! Love it!!
Have a great training week!!
Those small annoyances do all add up. Its frustrating when things continue to not go the way you’d like for them to. Hopefully you get some of those things worked out soon!
Your running pictures are always amazing with the scenes! I can relate to the runs from Hell, here lately. I’m sure it the warm temps and humidity so early but dang sure sucks the life out.
I did pretty well last week on letting things go, this week has really tried my patience though.