Good Morning!

It's hard to be humble when you're as good-looking as I am........ha-ha.....

Got up just a little while ago, took the dogs for a walk. Still getting used to the idea of bagging Farley's poop...since he's a Black Lab his stuff is a bit larger than most. But, since we're now in a new neighborhood, it's a good idea to not leave crap in the other yards. Makes for good neighborly harmony! Plus Jonnene "makes" me do it!

I started running again last Wednesday. I experimented with putting some foam padding above and behind my right big toe to see if that would help in reducing the pain I was feeling down there when I ran. Before doing that I had tried to run, hoping it was healed up from the time off, and I couldn't get 100 meters down the street and was reduced to walking 'cause it hurt so much. I went back to the house, tried the padding, and went out again. I knocked out 2.5 miles and felt nothing! Since then I've done two runs of 4 and 5.5 miles (that last one beat me up a bit), and today I'm cranking for seven miles. I'm less than two weeks away from the trail run at Lake Bisteneau (10 miles) so I need to get back on track.

I'm still not riding as much as I'd like but I'll get back into it after the trail run is over...I still plan to run twice a week to keep up that part of my fitness. The Freeze Your Fanny ride in Longview is this Saturday so I'll go out for that and do the 60-mile course. It won't be pretty, that's for sure, but it's another brick in the foundation for 2008. I'm not worried...I'll be behind everyone else early in the season but I'll get there by May, riding pretty well if nothing gets in the way. Like I've said before, I'm looking forward to riding this year and expect some fun times in the peloton.

This past weekend consisited mainly of house stuff. Cleaning things up, sorting through and organizing what's already been moved here (still a ways to go on that!), painting, getting things we need, and (very) slowly emptying out the old house. We're almost finished getting everything out of the storage unit so we can close that out by month's end. The new place is starting to feel more like home every day. J's always got some good ideas to make it better and I make a suggestion or two also...I think the place will be great by the end of the year. We've volunteered to host the Christmas holidays for the family so we need to get the house ready to endure that!

It's kinda exciting....