Ugly Toes

Yesterday was my rest day, and I spent the afternoon being fairly productive. I went to the Post Office to get some new 39 cent stamps along with some 2 cent stamps so I could finish off our supply of 37 cent stamps. Unfortunately, I vastly underestimated the number of stamps we had left, so another trip will be in order at some point. (And what really sucks is that you have to go to the counter to buy 2 cent stamps, as opposed to using the self-service machine that is available 24 hours). I then played a long round of Frisbee with Molly while also cleaning up the yard. (Our yard looks pretty good now, after another round of Frisbee/cleaning this morning). Unfortunately, with the warm weather our yard was getting a little mushy. After 45 minutes or so of running around, Molly's legs were covered in mud and her undercoat was soaked and dirty. So I got the fun job of trying to bathe her (by myself since the Engineer was still at work) in the laundry tub. Luckily, I only needed to get the undercoat and legs because she is now too big for a full bath in the laundry tub. My last real accomplishment of the day was filing away the 3-4 months of bills/statements/pay stubs/car paperwork/etc that have been cluttering up the kitchen.

The warm weather disappeared over night, and there was frost on the deck and grass this morning. It was also only in the low 30s, with windchill in the upper 20s. I went downstairs for weight lifting, but didn't really feel like doing my longer run on the treadmill. (I wanted to run at least 4, but maybe a little extra over that). So I changed into winter clothes and headed outside. I ran a fairly non-interesting route. I did decide to go over 4 since I was feeling pretty good, and ended my day at 5.

upper + lower body weights | 3 sets | 35:00

34 degrees | felt like 27 | SSE 8 MPH | 89% humidity
1 | 9:22
2 | 9:21 | 18:43
3 | 9:09 | 27:52
4 | 8:58 | 36:51
5 | 9:14 | 46:06
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5.04 miles | 46:27 | 9:13/mi.