This had been a pretty good week running wise.   Got in a great 8 mile hike on Tuesday.  Actually made it to the gym to run on the treadmill on Thursday and got in a solid 10k yesterday.   Since I put in 3x more miles this week than the past few weeks, I chose to stop at three days running this week.  My ankle is a little sore and I don’t really want to start training with an injury.   Or I was just lazy.  🙂

Saturday I headed out for a run after a short power nap.  I’ve noticed that my stomach behaves a little better after a short nap.  Why, I have no idea but if I can snooze for 15-20 minutes and have a better run, I’m all for it.  Admittedly, sometimes it backfires and I sleep through the timer.   California has missed the fall memo so I was able to head out late in the afternoon in shorts and a tank.   I know it won’t last much longer but it was pretty nice. I knew my mother was out for a walk somewhere so I figured that I may run into her at some point.    I changed my route up a bit so I would run past places I knew she liked to walk.   I got about 3 miles in and still hadn’t seen her so I sent her a text.   Her response was that she was going down the backside of a street.  Ummm, what?

What side is the backside?  So I sent a text trying to clarify.  Was she closer to street A or street B?  Mind you, there are 6 blocks in between those streets.    The next response- she’d gone around A and back up.  Back up what? There is no up that street.     So I head to where I thought she would be, no luck.   Ok, I give up.  I am just going to finish my run.  In my last mile, I get a text from my mother asking where I was.  My answer was by the school and that her directions made no sense.  I paused my Garmin and hung out for a moment waiting for another text but nothing came so I headed home.

Going up the last hill I get a text asking where I was again.  Completely done with texting, I stop again and just call her.   Turns out we were a block from each other.  I catch up to her and again say that her directions make no sense.  She again tells me her route and I snap “learn the street names!”.   Turns out what she was calling up street A is in fact Beach street, so not the same!!  The other name was off as well.  I got super frustrated with her and asked how she was ever going to give emergency directions by saying this street and that street, and around one corner or another.   I even warned her our little snafu was going on the blog.

All that aside, I had a pretty good run.  Other than my warm up mile and the little stops in mile 4- I can’t text and run at the same time- I kept a decent pace for all of the run.   Woo hoo!  That’s a big deal for me these days.  🙂   It was a good way to conclude my first, albeit rescheduled, week of training.  I am looking forward to next weeks running.  Even if I have a few after work commitments and am trying to figure when to run.   I’ll leave you with cuteness- I bought Kimi her first cat bed and I think it was a win-

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