Earthmovers and Sandcastles

I just casually Tweeted, in the course of a conversation, that the military races feel like Pokemon to me: “Gotta catch ‘em all!” The Marine Corps Marathon, the Air Force Marathon in Dayton, the Army 10-miler, and the Navy 5-miler – it’s probably not an unusual goal to complete all four and collect the medals and finishers’ coins, but just saying it out loud made it officially one of mine. Just got to get the timing down. The Air Force and the Navy races are in September, and the Army is in October; Air Force is in Ohio, and the other two are back east. These fall races in far-off places are a bit of a pain, the way they collide with the kids’ school schedules; Marine Corps is going to require them to miss at least a little, since although I could fly in by myself, I think the grandparents waiting at the other end of the flight might be a bit perturbed to see “just” their daughter exit the plane.

I’m climbing out of my funk a bit. Today’s run was a great step toward that; I did 4.75 miles at sub-8 pace for the whole way, including a couple of short but steep hills mixed in. Boy, my quads felt those! I didn’t let myself slow, though – just powered on through and felt like queen of the world at the top of each one. Today I was thankful for headphones; a bicycle rider passed me on one hill, going the other way, and after we waved and smiled at each other, he looked like he wanted to shoot the breeze for a moment, but I pretended I couldn’t hear. Stopping at that moment wasn’t an option!

Eric’s off work today, a lovely treat. We’ll all get to hit the farmers’ market together! He’s only had the opportunity to be surprised by the things I find, so today he’ll get to do some of the choosing. Then we’re having a relaxed lunch before I go back to tackling the kids’ playroom. My goal is to get the old train table out of there, which they never use as such anymore, and replace it with a long conference-type table from our basement, which will be better for Lego work. Maybe we’ll even stick on some big flat Lego base pieces for them. Possibilities abound!

Unrelated, I could be more chipper than usual because my usual breakfast was usurped by a Morningstar Farms Mushroom Lover’s burger. Oh, my word! Can I get put on some sort of weekly subscription order for those things?

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