I'm too tired to blog.

This blogging thing is just not working out. I guess I think my life is just not interesting enough. Or something. But some interesting things have happened to me in the past few weeks.

I've run 3.2 miles three times in the past two weeks. I did not die. I wanted to see what my time was, so I could know what my realistic time should be at the turkey trot. My third time was almost 3 minutes slower than my first time, which seems odd. I talked to the running coach at the Y, and I'm overtraining. I'm taking classes, running - too much. So, I cut out cycling. I'm not running every other day like you should in the couch to 5k program. I'm running sprints one day a week instead of a full run. I'm done with the 9 week program anyway - where you are running for 30 minutes. So, she wanted me to do some other stuff. Still run, but just not for 30 minutes. I was exhausting myself. And my legs feel it. My butt too. It jiggles when I run. Baby Got Back came on my music mix one day as I was running and I thought it was my theme song.

But, today is one week until the turkey trot. So, I'm taking it easy on the hard runs, and just trying to keep up. Honestly, I just want to quit until the race, but I know that isn't good. I'm not sure me and running are a good fix. I'm absolutely drenched in sweat by the time I'm done, and I'm breathing like I'm having a heart attack. But, I'm running. And it's something that 3 months ago I never thought I would be able to do.

Jeff's grandfather was very ill a few weeks ago, and we drove into WV to visit with him. On the way home, we hit a deer. I hit a deer. We're amazed we made it home - as we were still 3 hours from home and the van had substantial damage. I've had more than one person ask me if I kept the deer. Um... no. Tho venison is nice, I don't know how to field dress a deer. A guy who lived in the house beside where it happened came running out to help when he heard the collision. He offered to help put it in our van to take it home. I can only imagine what the kids would have thought of that! Jeff offered to put it in his truck, but he refused. It was somewhat odd.

But, my car is now fixed, and has a new grill with chrome on it! It's an upgrade from our old grill. Bling bling. When we went into WV the next weekend to visit Jeff's family - his grandfather passed away on 10/30- I went thru that section of road at about 40mph. I was scanning the road constantly. My heart was beating faster. It was like I had PTSD. But, we're traveled those roads for years, and never hit anything. And likely, will never hit anything again, so I've just got to come to terms with it.