Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't

Nothing too exciting on this new week, new month morning.  Just a regular old 6 mile loop.  Most exciting observation of the day was the rooster in the tree that has been greeting us at about 1.25 miles into our run.   I think it's weird to see roosters in trees. 

After getting our 12 year old off to her first year of girl's camp and Tom helping out a neighbor this morning we finally got out around 7:30.  It's probably good to get a few runs in the sun since there will most likely be sun on the last part of my SGM.  (However they said that the first time I ran SGM and it WAS NOT TRUE!...2008 the rainy, rainy year!)

We decided to run into the wind for the first 3 miles and have the wind at our back for the final three.  We zig zagged up and around and through a few different neighborhoods for a little different view.  Now I must hurry and get ready because my 4th grader is so excited to get up to the school and find out who her new teacher is! 

Tom and I went over to Payson Canyon today.  Started at Pateetneet and went up 4 miles then down four.  I get a bit nervous when we start doing the hills because I always seem to find a way to have some ITB issues.  I think if I try to do the up/downs without trying to push the speed too much I may be a little better off.  Today we did an ave 10:07 up and 8:36 down.  It felt good and I'm feeling good now.

Now I need to go back up that same canyon to help with meals for girl's camp today and tomorrow.  I am planning on taking tomorrow as a rest day since I will be busy with all the hustle and bustle of feeding and cleaning up after 300 girls! 

Wednesday afternoon I went up to Camp Koholowo to help on the stake girl's camp cooking crew.  We served about 275 hungry girls pork salad (Cafe' Rio style) Wednesday night, yummy french toast with buttermilk syrup Thursday morning and sloppy joes and tatter tots for lunch.  Which means that is also what I ate for those three meals...plus the ice cream for dessert on Wed. and the Rice Krispie treats for lunch on Thurs!  Eeek!  I also skipped my run Thursday because I didn't have time and I had scheduled it as a rest day.  We kept pretty busy up there and I did not sleep well at all that night up there.  So I was very grateful to get a nice sleep last night and wake up to run 6 miles with my hubby.  (He actually did 4 because he did Payson Canyon the past two days.)  Tomorrow time for 16.  It's kind of fun to have the long runs moving up. 

Tom and I met up with the SF group at 5:00 but they decided to go the Leland route and we had already planned our 16 miler so we parted ways with them right at the beginning.  They didn't want to start into the wind, we wanted to get the wind out of the way.

The weather was nice... not humid, not hot, not cold, pretty much just about right.  The wind does get kind of strong here and there, but the wind is our friend here in SF!

The route we took gave us a few nice hills to battle, including Harry's Hill again.  On one hill we noticed a dead scorpion about 2 1/2 inches long.  That's the first time we've ever seen one of those down in that area.  I had no idea they were that close to me!  I'm not much of a scorpion fan!

I mentioned to Tom that I might be interested in running SGM without any kind of watch at all this year.  I would really like to run this one without knee injuries.  I think if I just run by feel I will have better luck with accomplishing that goal.  It may mean a slower time than I would like but my goal this year has nothing to do with time or BQ or stress!