Lazy Day Afternoon

As we enter into the month of August it doesn't look like our summer schedule will be slowing down much. On Friday I received an email from a friend, Jen, asking if I could assist her in replacing hired help for her business. The first line of the email said, "Want to make some money?" Okay, I'm listening. Basically what the job entailed was going to Put In Bay and being a person at the dock, holding a sign that said,"....Follow Me!", and escorting clients to a shuttle bus for a company anniversary picnic. The company hired my friend's marketing/advertising company to put together this shin dig for all of their customers. At first I was a little timid since my friend's boss explained the job description as wanting girls that were.....well, let's just say, not the type of girls we are. They wanted some "flamboyant" girls if you know what I mean. But I guess we sufficed for what they needed. It was an enjoyable day. We got to spend some time outside, enjoying the beautiful weather. It was perfect weather, considering earlier in the week was hot and today is rainy. I was also unsure as I thought we'd be bored but it was nice to talk the day away and catch up with each other. And since the boats aren't constantly there we could come and go as we pleased as long as we were there for the boats. Sweet. Easy money and an enjoyable day. I'm not complaining.

I hurried home on the 2:45 pm boat and raced home to get ready for my cousin's wedding. We then headed over to the Sunnybrook Trout Club for the wedding. Once again, it was a gorgeous day and a perfect location for the wedding. Not too hot and everything ended as the day was coming to an end. After the ceremony we went to Huron for the reception and danced the night away. We couldn't believe when we looked down at our watches and saw that it was already 11pm. Considering I had gotten up at 5:30am to start the long day, I was beat.

Since Saturday had a kind of crazy schedule we postponed our long running day to Sunday. We didn't set our alarms figuring we'd get up on our own. Well, we did get up on our own but it was 9:30am. Whoops. It was nice to sleep in but I must say I was relieved to wake up and see it raining out. I'll settle for pouring down rain with humidity than hot and humid. It was an okay run. I love to run in the rain. It's refreshing. I ended up slowing down in the middle, and finished strong. However, throughout the week I see, according to my garmin, that I've cut off some time on my miles/minute each day.

We're also debating our upcoming training schedule. As with any training schedule it continues to get more intense. We're not concerned with the intensity but at this time we have no reason to push too much farther in our distances. For instance, if we were to continue on the schedule that is presently set we would finish up with a marathon at the end of December. Once again, we don't have a marathon planned in that near of a future and we definitely don't want to be running that long of distances in the winter. Not yet atleast. So we may go a little farther in the training schedule and just stay at "maintenance" distances and mix it up here and there. We've also been mixing in some strength training so that's helped too. That's our plan at this time.

After finishing up this morning we did our grocery shopping and came home to have a lazy day afternoon. With the rain coming down outside what better way to pass the day then by taking a nap. So that's what I did while David played XBox and watched Rocky on tv. Will he ever get sick of watching that movie? For dinner we went to Famous Dave's with Cass, J, Mom, and Dad to celebrate their anniversary. After finishing there we met David's 'rents at Tofts to catch up with them.

As previously stated, it doesn't look like our schedule's going to let up anytime soon. This upcoming week David's going to the Indians game on Friday and playing with Dan May on Saturday. Next weekend I work. The following Saturday is the OROC 5K. Then the next weekend I'll be heading to Florida while David goes to the Indians game. It seems like it will be full but fun at the same time. I also need to buckle down here soon and register for fall classes. School, already?