I still keep expecting to wake up and realize that yesterday was a dream, that I didn’t really complete an entire half-marathon. And then I move, and my legs remind me that it definitely happened, and that this is actually, totally, really my very real life. How weird is this? I am a bit stunned still. Which I guess makes sense… Read more »
Start time: 8:00 a.m. Duration: 2:57:28 Overall average: 13:33 Fastest mile: 10:47 I still can’t believe this is real. I keep thinking I will wake up and find it was all a dream. But then I feel the weight of this gorgeous thing in my hands, and I know it really happened. I really did it. I really finished… Read more »
It is less than 12 hours until my half-marathon and I am slightly freaking out. I can’t stop thinking about all the water I didn’t drink, all the sleep I didn’t get, all the miles I didn’t push myself — and I can’t find my GU packets that I bought specifically for the race and put Somewhere I Can’t Possible… Read more »
I love that my long-haired beach babies not only allow us to put their hair in ponytails, but actually request it. Miles in particular loves when we pull his hair back. “Make me a pony!” he requests. And then when you do it, he screeches, “I a PONY!” and runs around to show everyone his hair before promptly wrecking it… Read more »
Jake and the minions are holding up well, in large part because we’re bribing our children with chocolate chips (aka, “tock tips!”) to use the potty. Because we are awesome parents who resort to cheap bribery. It seems to be working, so we’ll go with it. I told Jesse that we need to start doing intermittent reinforcement very soon because… Read more »