1 hour 20 minutes!!!

So I told you I would let you know how my 8 miles went and as you can see from my title it was great.  I keep a 10 minute pace the whole time and actually enjoyed the run.  Scottye did good also.  Our bodies are starting to feel the running a bit more with each run.  My legs are hurting today after the 4 miles run.  I have had a head cold for a few days now and took some meds before the run this morning and it dried me up a little too much to run so I had to walk for a minute to feel better.  I some how recorded my fastest mile while not feeling great, so thats a plus.  All and all it's going good and I am having fun training with Scottye.

Ok now on to the bigger news......  All I have to say is GRAHAM????   What?  If you watch The Bachelorette you know what I am talking about.  I am so upset and I better be able to find out what the letter said.  Also I feel horrible for whoever wins at this point now. She pretty much said I lost the man I was falling in love with and now she has to go back for the next person in line... which better be Jason. I love him! 

I think Graham was falling in love with Deanna and thats why he was speechless when she told him she was falling for him.  Hopefully we will find everything out on the guys tell all show... until then I am mad he is gone and I must add he was pleasant to look at and now we don't have that anymore.... hahaha

Marathon Training Continues

A lot of my blogs will be about my training. That is my life right now. I have to watch what I eat, drink, and do every second. I have to watch my steps closer so I don't hurt myself.  I am enjoying it ,but it is hard no doubt. Today was one of those hard days. It was only a 3 mile day and that is easy BUT... it was early, (we like to run early b/c the sun is not out yet) it was raining, and then worst of all my training buddy Scottye (Dan's cousin that is going to school in Abilene) stood me up. She over sleep after I called to wake her up. So to top it off I waited on her for 25 minutes until I saw Dan going to school and used his phone to call her only to hear her say i over sleep. So I ran without her. On the short runs we run round ACU's Campus and one side of campus is wind blowing like no other. So today I had wind and rain beating my face in, but I finished it... by myself!   Thanks Scottye. 

Training is Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Saturdays are the long runs and this week it is 8 miles.  We did 7 last week and it was not bad at all. I have one of those fancy gadgets that tells me my pace, time, distance, and calories burned. It is pretty sweet I must say. So anyways I say all that to tell you that we were not going to check our distance until we knew we had been far b/c we did not want to hear 3 miles and know we still had 4 left. That would not be OK with me. So we waited and found out at 5.6 miles. We were like not bad only  1.4 more.  Well the last 1.4 miles were HORRIBLE!!!!  It's like we knew we were about to be done we just checked out then.  We ended up finishing pretty good tough. Our goal is to always run at a 10 minute pace.  We finish 7 miles in 1 hour 13 minutes so that just over a 10 minute pace so we were happy.  Now lets see if we can make 8 miles  in 1 hour 20 minutes.   I'll let you know how it goes.

This marathon thing started with just my little brother Zach and I saying we were going to do it.  Well I was in Fort Worth at the time and he in Waco so we could not really ever train together. Well now I am in Abilene and I convinced Scottye to do the marathon also. So I have a training partner and poor Zach does not. He is having to do all this by himself and that's horrible!!!  We have talked a few people into running the 1/2 that day also. 

Guess that's all (and enough) for today!

Life as we know it!

My Sweet puppy

2 years old 3 lbs.

Life in Abilene has been great so far. We are really enjoying ourselves.  We make at least one trip a day to Walmart and sometimes two. Our house is coming along, so we are excited about that. Dan is staying busy with sitting in on a class for this semester and working around the house. I have been staying busy by waking up early and running (I am training for a marathon if I have not told you yet), unpacking and then cooking dinner.  We have a 3 pound Chihuahua named Tinker and she is just precious.  She has kinda been depressed since being here, but today was her best day yet.  She has always sleep with us, but she woke us up too many times to go to the potty so we decided to put her up at night in her own room and she does not like that at all. Funny how she holds her pee all night when she is not with us...  That's all for now. 

A good friend of mine taught me some new things about blogging... so I am going to try them now. Thanks Mar!

House during move in

Living Room

Our Kitchen during move in so it's messy

In Backyard, Dan was cooking out for my parents. They helped us move in