Divide and Conquer

UPDATE - Started the week with the new schedule since last week ended with me off my feet.  I ran Monday & still felt my shins, so wasn't feeling good about the prospects for the rest of the week.  Tuesday morning, as I got ready for bootcamp, I decided to wear my old shoes and see how things went.  We did some running and things went well, so I decided to experiment with my shoes the rest of the week.  Wednesday was another run day & wore the old shoes, no pain.  Thursday, bootcamp with the new shoes, no pain.  Friday I decided to try to run in the new shoes again.....no pain, YAY!  My "professional" opinion...I tried to run too far in new shoes, too soon.

So, it was a busy week.  Mini Me came home on Tuesday, thank you Lord!  I can't even explain how much I missed that girl.  My niece flew through DFW, Wednesday, on her way home so we surprised her on her 3 hour layover and went to lunch & ice cream!

Cousins!

Love this kid!

To add to the already busy week, John & I had to divide & conquer the week so in addition to getting my runs in, I had to work around not having John home to stay with the kids so I could run/workout before the sun came up.  Thank goodness for help from family!

John had to take I to Austin for a 3v3 soccer tournament & I had the 2nd half marathon in my summer series this weekend.  It was hard to let him go to the tournament without me but I think it was a much needed Daddy/Daughter weekend.  He came home talking soccer like a pro and bursting with pride about the team and especially how his girl played!  Congratulations Shooting Ducks, they qualified for Nationals in Florida!

The Shooting Ducks

The Wildfire Half was Saturday morning so the boys stayed with my parents since I had to be up & out the door before the sun.  Unfortunately, I wasn't running before the sun.  I wish!  It was in the 80s already before 7 and the race didn't start until 7:30.  Who's bright idea was this?!  The race announcer told the crowd it was going to be a nice race with a "beautiful" course through gently rolling hills. NOT!  We set off right at 7:30 heading out of the Denton ISD stadium and out onto 4 lane rode THAT. WE. STAYED. ON. THE. ENTIRE. RACE!!!!  The shoulder on both sides of the street were coned off but apparently those were just put out as a suggestion as we heard a car going the opposite direction completely destroy one as it sped by!  In addition to speeding cars, we dodged roadkill the entire way.  I kept looking for the rain cloud as I was feeling sprinkles every once in awhile.  I finally realized it was the sweat hitting me from the guy in front of me, YUCK!  In spite of the heat, the giant hills (not gently rolling at all) & the sweaty rain, I placed in my age group again!  Yay, me!  I wonder if this is because I'm getting better or is it because there are so few in the age group stupid enough to run in this heat?  Either way, I'll take it!

3rd Place!

Look how happy we are at the start!