10 miles- I DID IT!

I finished my first double-digit run today!!!!!!! To make it more impressive, I ran it in a monsoon! Within the first 2 minutes of my run it started raining and never let up; I'm pretty sure the last half of my run was the worse rain that Cleveland has seen in awhile. I made it home and looked like I had been doing water aerobics in my clothes! I think that if I can complete a 10-mile run in a monsoon, I have a good chance of doing a half-marathon in better weather. :)

This past week has definitely been my hardest in training, both physically and mentally. It's really challenging to find the time for these long runs with school work, let alone to find the energy to finish the runs! With only three more weeks until race day, however, I feel like I have too much invested in training to give up now, despite how utterly exhausted I am. I'll make a compromise- if I'm very tired tomorrow from my 10 mile run, maybe I'll skip my 5 mile recover run to take a nice long bubble bath instead. :)

Keeping my fingers crossed that I will make it to Sept 9th!

olive + poison control

I just got off the phone with doggy poison control. Olive will be ok. Things this little troublemaker has ingested in the past 2 months: loestrin, caulking, paint, 409 cleaner, lots of toilet paper, her own poop (ew!), among many other things besides her dog food. What a troublemaker!! Luckily, she's doing just fine.

In other dramatic Olive news, she had surgery on Friday: total hysterectomy, ingrown thumbnail removal, and baby tooth removal. Eek. Luckily, despite her attempts to poison herself, she's doing just fine.

A few pics of Olive- she's getting so big (from 4.45lbs in April to 10.8lbs in August!)








A better update is on its way eventually:
1.) The new house
2.) How the summer went
3.) 2nd year so far (I'm in my second week already!)