Longs Runs, Playing, Cleaning… The Norm

Thursday: I ran 49:40 with the HS kids this morning (there is no school today and tomorrow). I was able to run a 4 mile tempo the last 4 miles in my (I think) 7 mile run. It was too short of a workout but a good one (I wish I could have tempo’d another mile or 2). It was a beautiful morning!

I did turn back a little earlier to get my 2nd child to the dentist. Her tooth has been bothering her.

The girls and I headed to the pumpkin patch and met up with my sister and her kids, and my friend Marti and her kids… Lots of pictures!

… One more…

This pumpkin patch is huge and it’s all free. 🙂 I’m all about the free stuff. My sister and sister-in-law and the girls cousins played and made messes and helped clean the rest of the afternoon. The LDS missionaries and Fullmer’s came over for dinner…

… The missionaries shared a good spiritual message, then had to leave for another appointment.

Friday: I met up with Amber this morning and went for an easy 54:46.09 minute run (about 7.3-7.4 miles). Shortly after my run, the HS kids showed up to their CC practice. I sent them off on a 6 1/2 mile Fartlek run and then they finished up at my house for pancakes and hot chocolate.

We did a lot of house organizing, yard cleaning, field weeding, tons of neighbors/friends playing, etc…

Lots to do and getting a little done at a time. My 2 middle children went to their friend’s little Halloween party. My oldest had 3 friends over for a movie and snacks night. 🙂 They all had fun.

Saturday: I met up with Emily (meeting her for the 1st time) and Devra this morning for a 21 mile run. Emily is running CIM also to try to Olympic Trial Qualify. She ran a 2:40 her last marathon (just wasn’t a qualifier). She will do well!!! It was real fun getting to know her and seeing Devra again. Both, extremely amazing runners and wonderful people. We averaged a 6:50 pace (7:04 the 1st 10 1/2 and the 2nd 10 1/2 we sped up to make the 21 miler a 6:50 pace). I did tempo the last mile into race pace (well I think I was race pace… I don’t wear a Garmin). My legs have been that achy tired all day long… But it was a good run. The girls did all their chores, so we took them to our discounted movie theatre to see “How To Train Your Dragon 2”. It was a cute movie… We ran errands and played out in the field behind our house the rest of the afternoon…

We had a babysitter come babysit tonight while Corom and I went to dinner with 3 other couples… The Halls, Booths and Fullmer’s. They helped us so much with moving. We took them to HuHots. Soo good!