A breath of fresh air

Will and I ran behind the high school again.  Will started complaining during mile 3, but we made it.

I started a new running group with a couple girls (Kathryn and Rachel) from my church.  We'll be running on Tuesday nights.  Tonight's run went really well.  It was just Kathryn and me; Rachel is out of town.  I hope we can work up to at least six miles.  We talked about running four miles, but at the end of the run I was able to talk Kathryn into running one more mile.

Will and I ran the hospital running route which was flooded.

The lines on the car wash are water lines, so the water use to be about four feet high here.  This is about 200 yards from our apartment.  The median use to be grassy and green, but it's covered in mud.  The Thai restaurant's parking lot is all mud, too.

After I took this picture, I looked behind me and there was a huge dead fish.  During this stretch of run through the damaged flood area, the smell was awful.  It was a combination of dead fish and garbage smell.

Garbage got caught in goal's net.  I couldn't believe all the mud that settled in this still flooded soccer filled.  Just before Will and I got to the soccer field, I saw four different chairs that the flood waters had carried away and strewn on the softball field's fence.

Will and I biked over to our graden plot.  There's a lot of weeds.  I weeded between our fifteen green bean plants.  After the garden, we biked to the post office and then finally to the grocery store.  We probably biked six miles.  I am sore from the hills!

During nap time, I did the jump roping work out again--4 three minutes sessions with the rope alternating between running in place and normal jumping.  I haven't mastered double unders yet.  Between the first three rounds with the rope, I did the plank for a minute.  After the last round, I did the wall sit.  I finished the work out session with tricep extentions.  It's unreal how sweaty and how hard I breath!  The work out was easy this week that is was the past two weeks.

I felt extremely sluggish on my run today.  Will was a happy guy the whole time.  It felt very humid.