MSTEECHUR's May 2008 CalorieKing Blog

Thank You Lord, I am Alive

Friday, May 30th 2008

My mother-in-law drove me to work today.

Dear Jesus

Thank you so much for sparing my life this morning.

Amen

Oh, and Jesus...could you somehow put a bug in the ear of our nation's lawmakers that perhaps people over a certain age might be tested for renewing their drivers' licenses?

Amen

what a day

Thursday, May 29th 2008

HILLY on the way in! I am so sick and tired of these stinking COLD mornings! I go out today in my bike shorts and am immediately pissed off. I checked the weather when I got up, the roads were dry. So when I go out to ride, I am slapped in the face with freezing cold spit rain. I hate spit rain. Rain or don't rain, but don't spit at me. I can't wear my sunglasses because it's too gloomy.

I went back in the house and had a mild temper tantrum, but realized it was silly to NOT ride. Threw som...

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RIP Maddie

Tuesday, May 27th 2008

Sadly our wonderful weekend was marred by the death of our wonderful collie, Madison. We came home to find she'd gone to sleep and just not woken up. I was upstairs and Roy went to let the dogs in from the kennel. (They have a big kennel with access to our basement, so nice and warm and dry and lots of room to play.) Dash and Murphy came up, but Maddie didn't. I heard sobbing coming from downstairs and ran outside to find him stumbling up the stairs crying.

She was such a beautiful, sweet, ...

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Coeur d'Alene Marathon

Sunday, May 25th 2008

Coeur d'Alene Marathon at Riverstone
2008-05-25
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
United States
70F / 21C
Overcast

Run - Marathon
Total Time = 4h 39m 2s
Overall Rank = /
Age Group =
Age Group Rank = 0/


Pre-race routine:

Got up at 4:30 and had coffee and a breakfast cookie to make sure it was well settled before the race. I actually slept relatively well last night. Knees were both feeling pretty good, which was interesting since Saturday morning I woke up in pain.

Ev...

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Yipes!

Saturday, May 24th 2008

Just got into the hotel, free wi-fi...YAY! I journaled my day including planned dinner and am 480 calories over, but I know I need to eat at a maintenance level before my marathon, not a losing level, so I'm okay with it. Dinner will be Spaghetti, soup, coffee, and spumoni ice cream for dessert. Then bed!

The expo was TEENY! I think there were maybe five tables in all, and they were all so small that even if you wanted to look at anything on the table you couldn't because if two people stoo...

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