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Wow! \u00a0That came up fast!<\/p>\n

Today I kicked off training for Grandma’s Marathon. \u00a0Grandma’s Marathon is June 18 in Duluth, Minnesota. \u00a0http:\/\/grandmasmarathon.com\/<\/p>\n

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This year is the 40th Anniversary of the race and registration sold out very fast. \u00a0I was lucky to get in! \u00a0MFH (My Favorite Husband) and I are planning on making the trip to MN for the race our vacation this year.<\/p>\n

To start my training, I had an 8 mile tempo run this morning. \u00a0I don’t tempo well in the best of conditions. \u00a0Let’s face it, this lady’s body just doesn’t tempo. \u00a0I try! \u00a0Don’t get me wrong, I really do try but usually my regular ol’ runs are faster than my tempo runs. \u00a0Hahaha!!!<\/p>\n

Today was windy and I was so excited when I hit my first two splits. \u00a0I thought to myself, “Maybe this will be the first time EVER I get my tempo run right!” \u00a0Then I turned into the wind. \u00a0That was the end of my successful tempo run! \u00a0The wind took the tempo right out of that run and turned it into a, “Let’s see if we can survive the run.” run. \u00a0Forget the tempo! \u00a0Just get the miles done. \u00a0#temporunfail<\/p>\n

Sure was a pretty morning! \u00a0If you take the tempo out of the name of what kind of run I was supposed to do, it ended up being a very nice 8 miler!<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow is a rest day for Wednesday’s long run. \u00a0I am scheduled for 18 miles on Wednesday. \u00a0It’s supposed to be warmish so I’ll probably wear my hydration vest and carry stuff with me.<\/p>\n

During the cooler weather we’ve been having, I’ve just been making loops back to the house and picking up what I need. \u00a0Now that it’s getting warmer, coming back to the house really isn’t such a great idea. \u00a0Something about having to pass the house or even my street makes my legs turn into lead. \u00a0I’m kind of like a horse knowing it’s close to the barn and my body says, “I’m only 7 miles short of my assigned mileage. \u00a0That’s close enough, right?”<\/p>\n

Nope. \u00a0It’s time to switch to out and back runs or I’ll be too tempted to stop early and that will be my downfall come race day.<\/p>\n

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April 1st will find me in Austin, Texas, visiting some running friends! \u00a0I’m super excited about this!!! \u00a0These are people I’ve chatted with for years online and I’m finally going to meet them IRL. \u00a0Together we are going to run the Austin 10\/20.<\/p>\n

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My extent of Texas travels is Texarkana for a wedding and the two big airports. \u00a0I’ve heard wonderful things about Austin and how pretty it is. \u00a0This is the race bling I should be bringing home with me. \u00a0I’ve already chatted with the RD (Race Director) about an extra medal for Aiden (#IRun4Aiden) and they were extremely helpful with that. \u00a0Good people in Austin!<\/p>\n

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Enough of the race\/running talk. \u00a0How’s Paxton doing you ask?<\/p>\n

Paxton got to go “bye-bye” today. \u00a0I needed to go to the pharmacy and seeing as I would be going through the drive thru, I decided he could come along. \u00a0He thought he was such a lucky dog!!!<\/p>\n

He sat up nice and tall the entire drive…watching out the windshield. \u00a0The entire trip, the seat belt alarm was beeping because he’s such a pudgy puppy, he sets it off.<\/p>\n

Once we got to the pharmacy, the lady came to the window and was getting the stuff put together for me to take home. \u00a0Through the little door they use in the drive thru, she put 3 doggie treats in there for Paxton. \u00a0Then she took a pic of Paxton with her phone so she could show her husband a pic of the dog wearing a necktie. \u00a0How funny is that!?!<\/p>\n

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What a goofy dog I have!<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, no running~instead I will be cleaning house. \u00a0Whee? \u00a0Needs to be done so, duty calls as it were. \u00a0*sigh*<\/p>\n

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Wow! \u00a0That came up fast! Today I kicked off training for Grandma’s Marathon. \u00a0Grandma’s Marathon is June 18 in Duluth, Minnesota. \u00a0http:\/\/grandmasmarathon.com\/ This year is the 40th Anniversary of the race and registration sold out very fast. \u00a0I was lucky to get in! \u00a0MFH (My Favorite Husband) and I are planning on making the trip […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,6,8,5,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3785,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions\/3785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}