Nothin' Exciting

The last few days and really weeks, nothing too exciting happening in this Redhead's life.  Running is good, the job is eh, well we'll leave it at I have a job, and in general life has been pretty dang fab - fab in the sense that everything is just plugging along and moving.  I'm enjoying my runs, enjoying the summer weather (when it's NOT 90 degrees!) and looking forward to some fun races I have next month.  I guess it is a good thing when life is a bit boring, it makes you stop and realize that things aren't so bad :)

The week is early and I moved some things around on my schedule to get in an extra speed session this week to make up for the one I missed last week.  I really do love track work, it makes the time go by soooo fast!  On Monday I headed to the sauna gym to get my track work done since it was pushing 90 out all afternoon.  They swore up and down the air con was on, but I swear to you, it felt even worse inside!  I did 5x800's and finished up the workout at 7 miles.  Not too bad.  In fact, the good warm up and cool down I did made my legs feel like they could have kept going!

Fast forward to yesterday, and my legs were dead!  I guess that's a sign of a good workout?  I headed back to the gym again to get my run on and then lift some weights.  Uh yeah, I lasted 4 miles in that sauna/gym with my tired legs and called it a day!  After some weights and abs, I was a soaking wet mess!  I know I'm already an abnormally sweaty runner, but man, this was bad!  I thought about taking a picture, but then I thought, I don't think I needed to subject any of you to that!

Not sure if any of you have ever used the Meetup.com website to find a running group, but I joined almost a year ago and have only attended maybe two meetups.  The people are nice enough, but the times I went everyone was really slow and doing different distances than I so I didn't go back.  But the nice thing about being signed up with a meetup group is that they constantly send you emails for future or upcoming meetup events.  I got one yesterday for a long trail run meetup right in my backyard for Saturday on a trail I have been meaning to try for a really long time.  I decided to give it a shot.  And the cool thing is, many of the peeps are going to start earlier and tack on some miles, exactly what I need.  Go over and checkout meetup.com, they have a ton of different groups all over the country for everything to running to...you name it!  It's a great way to meet people and the nice thing is, you can come and go as you please.

That's all I got for the Hump Day Wednesday!  And a special shout-out to my cousin Sarah today: Happy Birthday girlie - love ya!!!
Happy Wednesday and Happy Running peeps!