As if I don't have enough to be proud of lately, my second oldest child, Kelly, graduates this Sunday from Law School!!!!!
Our trips out of the house these days are all about timing! Feed Connor a few minutes before we leave, and he's golden! The car trip puts him to sleep faster than Sanjaya's singing!
So hopefully we feed him, make the 2 hour trip to Columbus while he snores, meet my kids for a bite to eat somewhere, drop Connor at my oldest daughters house to babysit, and get to the graduation by 1:00! Whew.. I'm exhausted just writing about it! One of my twin boys will be putting me through this all over again next month! I should be getting good at this by now.
Connor bought his mommy the Nike+ iPod Sports Kit for Mothers Day. It's a very cool chip you lace to your shoe (or buy a very expensive pair of specially built Nike shoes) and your iPod keeps track of your workout. You can upload your workouts to the Nike web site where it gets logged and you can run all sorts of neat reports and graphs. I wouldn't trade my Garmin Forerunner 205 (Get yours yet Melisa?), but it's a very cheap and very cool device, especially if you already have a Nano.
But Connor did this for dad actually! Dad IS going to run a half marathon in the fall, and the sooner we get mom back on the road, the greater the likelihood she will train and run the half WITH dad *Dr. Evil laugh*!! We did the Disney Half back in 2004 and had a BLAST!!Right now I am looking at running the half at the Columbus Marathon on October 21st. I ran the full YEARS ago ( 1988 actually, 3:42:15) and loved the course. How much more would I love it only having to do HALF of it?? ;-) I bet I could get special dispensation from Steve Runner to run this one for The Phedippidations World Wide Half Marathon. Anyway, that's the plan right now.
My running is going SO well these days that I am running the risk of injury! I'm at a point, psychologically, that I want to run every day, and kind of far! I even ran 6 miles yesterday morning, then ran another 3.5 at lunch! But it just feels so darn good these days!
My running partner at the gym in the mornings and I have decided to start picking up the mileage on our Friday runs, in preparation for a half. So this Friday is either 7 or 8 miles. Good thing I can SIT during the graduation this weekend!
Now for the Connor Update...
Guess who is 7 weeks old today AND slept through the night last night? Yep.. Daddy's boy did!
Peace.
6 comments:
That Connor - handsome AND a great gift-giver already! *laughs*
You sure are running well! The half will be here before you know it.
wow! it's amazing! having a baby has IMPROVED your running. Great stuff and Connor is SUCH a cutie!
You must be so proud of your daughter! Great Job Dad!
As far as the half marathon:
Do it! If you run the half on October 21st, you, Petra and I will all have major races on:
One Day
Two Continents
Three Time Zones
Fo(u)r Sure!
Do it!
Hey, that kid gives out really sweet gifts. Congrats to Mom!
I didn't get my garmin yet. Sigh...my husband is tracking it down for me.
Congratulations on your daughter's graduation from law school too.
Hey, I'm *probably* running Columbus this fall instead of Chicago. I was going to blog about my decision. May see you there.
Great pictures, and congrats to your daughter! What an accomplishment.
I'm really excited that my husband will be running his first half marathon this summer with me! I'm super proud of him. :) I hope your wife enjoys her new Nike + iPod toy and has a great time running too!
Congrats on your daughter's amazing accomplishments!!! You are truly blessed!
Hey, my first half marathon was that same Disney Half in 2004! That was a coooooold morning!
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