JE woke me, gently to tell me he was going in early to work. I got up and dressed and went with him. He went to work, I went running on the trail with JE's phone. He has a GPS tracker on it to give me mileage and music on a program that collects data and gives running time, mph and average pace. Running was fun and easy today, partly because of it was early morning and partly because I was plugged into music. There were several ducklings on the river and I stopped to look, then walked up the hill. When I got to the top, I checked the program to see how much further I had left to run. Across the top of the screen it read, "I walked." I was a bit surprised and a little affronted that this little device would remind me that I hadn't been running as we had previously agreed. It was my morning after all, and I could do with it as I chose. However, as I listened to the music I realized that the song title was being displayed. I Walked by Sufjan Stevens.
When JE got home today, he told me that he was affronted by the same program during his noon run. He hadn't been walking, and had the phone on mute so there was no music playing to clue him in.
85 Degrees for dinner and went to visit BC. Fun night.
My Word With Friends friend, CH, played the word, 'yammered' for 116 points. Youch!
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Day 261: Rest day
We headed to the beach this afternoon and walked the length of Crystal Cove. It was a glorious evening, fulled with light and even dolphins. Lovely.
There is some stuff going on with my family right now, and I'm not sure how serious it is. I've been feeling like I need to go up there soon, but with the car being incapacitated, it hasn't been an option. And yes, we have the car back now, but the engine light came on as we were driving home. Something is amiss with it, so travel is on hold.
Quite possibly, I may be done with the bakery I am working at. It was very disturbing last week when the baker asked me to tell someone (the board?) that he is seldom at the bakery and that I help him with his baking because he is taking care of his mother when in reality, he is there for about 16 hours a day and I do no baking but my own, once a week for a few hours. Smacks of fraud. I told him I'd try to be vague, but I couldn't lie. The day after, he treated me coldly, hardly talking to me and not looking me in the eye. Too bad, I was enjoying working there, but I will find somewhere else to go. I don't need to put up with that garbage--along with some other crap.
It is going to be a tough week to focus on workouts, as JE's sister will be here, but I will do my best. Perhaps June just needs to be a bit of a rest month, and pick up the more rigorous training in July. But my plans for the week are: Go for a long ride up the coast, run often--perhaps daily--go for the 80 miles in June challenge. Right now it would be 5.1 miles per day average for the next 10 weekdays and Saturday. Perhaps that is where I will put my focus, since my bike is in the shop and it will be easy to do this first thing in the morning while I have company.
Plan for the week:
Monday: AM: Run 5 miles. Dentist
PM: If my bike is ready, go for a long spin.
dinner: Manhattan Clam Chowder
Tuesday: AM: Run 5 miles.
PM: Swim Long 2500 yds
Dinner: Pad se ew
Wednesday: Run 5 miles
Bike--recovery. Dessert for Caitlin's grad party, prep for SIL
Dinner: Chicken sausage and salad
Thursday: Run 5 miles
PM: Swim--speed
Dinner: Open
Friday: Run 5 miles
In LA at the Dwell show
Dinner: Open
Saturday: AM Run 5 miles
PM:Swim--recovery
Dinner: Open
There is some stuff going on with my family right now, and I'm not sure how serious it is. I've been feeling like I need to go up there soon, but with the car being incapacitated, it hasn't been an option. And yes, we have the car back now, but the engine light came on as we were driving home. Something is amiss with it, so travel is on hold.
Quite possibly, I may be done with the bakery I am working at. It was very disturbing last week when the baker asked me to tell someone (the board?) that he is seldom at the bakery and that I help him with his baking because he is taking care of his mother when in reality, he is there for about 16 hours a day and I do no baking but my own, once a week for a few hours. Smacks of fraud. I told him I'd try to be vague, but I couldn't lie. The day after, he treated me coldly, hardly talking to me and not looking me in the eye. Too bad, I was enjoying working there, but I will find somewhere else to go. I don't need to put up with that garbage--along with some other crap.
It is going to be a tough week to focus on workouts, as JE's sister will be here, but I will do my best. Perhaps June just needs to be a bit of a rest month, and pick up the more rigorous training in July. But my plans for the week are: Go for a long ride up the coast, run often--perhaps daily--go for the 80 miles in June challenge. Right now it would be 5.1 miles per day average for the next 10 weekdays and Saturday. Perhaps that is where I will put my focus, since my bike is in the shop and it will be easy to do this first thing in the morning while I have company.
Plan for the week:
Monday: AM: Run 5 miles. Dentist
PM: If my bike is ready, go for a long spin.
dinner: Manhattan Clam Chowder
Tuesday: AM: Run 5 miles.
PM: Swim Long 2500 yds
Dinner: Pad se ew
Wednesday: Run 5 miles
Bike--recovery. Dessert for Caitlin's grad party, prep for SIL
Dinner: Chicken sausage and salad
Thursday: Run 5 miles
PM: Swim--speed
Dinner: Open
Friday: Run 5 miles
In LA at the Dwell show
Dinner: Open
Saturday: AM Run 5 miles
PM:Swim--recovery
Dinner: Open
Day 260: Way too late
Cleaned the house and went for a run in Woods Canyon. It was so beautiful. 5 miles round trip, we left off the last mile for fear our car getting locked in the gated parking lot. Felt really good to run, like my body was just craving all that movement.
Those pork burgers were a disappointment. The coleslaw and corn were the best part of the meal.
Those pork burgers were a disappointment. The coleslaw and corn were the best part of the meal.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Day 259: Valogi
After my deliveries this afternoon, I dropped by Irvine Bicycles and dropped off Little Red. She needs a new center chain ring and a rear cassette. As an alternative ride, today, I test rode a Valogi bike. It is a super light frame with a shallow rear base. The configuration is interesting. On JE's bike, I feel stretched out and comfy. On the Valogi, I don't know... It's tighter somehow for my 6'3" frame. I really liked the quick smoothness of the Shamano gears and breaks and the disc breaks kick butt. The strangest part was the wind factor and how unsteady I felt with a gusty cross breeze because of the lightness of the frame (little Red is a tank--even when fully loaded with panniers on front and back it only moved as much as this bike did with just me on it). It was, however, so much smoother going over the rough patches on the trail--and that is because of the frame. It's good to know this stuff. Someday, hopefully sooner than later, I would like a new road bike, and the only way I will know what I want and what works is to ride everything!
I decided to treat yesterday as a rest day, and today was my ride. I'll be missing my long ride this week, but need to be OK with that. That race in September is coming, but still comfortably far away.
I decided to treat yesterday as a rest day, and today was my ride. I'll be missing my long ride this week, but need to be OK with that. That race in September is coming, but still comfortably far away.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Day 258: I want it all
I'd hardly say I was lazy today, just busy in different ways. The sad part is that I was just explaining to JE that it is those core 9 workouts each week are the most important of all the workouts I have planned for myself throughout the week. Unfortunately, I have missed two of them already this week. I am jonesing for a bike ride--a long ride in view of the sea. I was thinking tomorrow would be the perfect day, but a whole heaping helping of things--business related, keep popping up. Maybe I can make my delivery early and fly away for a bit. Ugh, and a long run tomorrow night may get pushed to Saturday. I want it all, NOW!
The baker. The bakery. Generally Thursdays has become my baking and prep day for orders. Today, however was so slammed, I didn't get to start my own stuff until 2:45. Good for the baker, bad for my training.
What would you do if someone asked you to lie to cover their own lies? Not something I ever thought I would be faced with, but it happened today. What a thing to ask a person to do... Especially in something that could bring me liable.
This arvo, I worked a tiny bit on my website, and ate. It is such a weird thing to work around so much food. I find myself unwilling to eat most of the day, and then voracious once I get home. Today I wasn't home until after 4, then put my feet up in a cathartic food coma. I'd planned to ride to JE so we could go straight to Tim to pick up the car. We wound up at dinnner with friends and are now ready to crash, though I keep thinking I should go running--The only problem with that is that I need to get up early and go finish my baking before 9 tomorrow and I have quite a bit to do. I will figure out how to balance all of this. Like I said, I want it ALL!
The baker. The bakery. Generally Thursdays has become my baking and prep day for orders. Today, however was so slammed, I didn't get to start my own stuff until 2:45. Good for the baker, bad for my training.
What would you do if someone asked you to lie to cover their own lies? Not something I ever thought I would be faced with, but it happened today. What a thing to ask a person to do... Especially in something that could bring me liable.
This arvo, I worked a tiny bit on my website, and ate. It is such a weird thing to work around so much food. I find myself unwilling to eat most of the day, and then voracious once I get home. Today I wasn't home until after 4, then put my feet up in a cathartic food coma. I'd planned to ride to JE so we could go straight to Tim to pick up the car. We wound up at dinnner with friends and are now ready to crash, though I keep thinking I should go running--The only problem with that is that I need to get up early and go finish my baking before 9 tomorrow and I have quite a bit to do. I will figure out how to balance all of this. Like I said, I want it ALL!
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Day 257: Raspberries
It was a super fun day, filled with all kinds of happenings, including: running around for the baker and delivering baked goods samples to restaurants in the area, returning to the bakery to find the place filled with little old ladies all wanting lunch, the craziness that ensues when a dozen or so little old ladies need lunch in a hurry and then several other customers come in rapid fire succession also wanting lunch, returning home and breaking my record distance swim--I achieved my goal swim of 2,500 yards--it just wanted to be done today. I had invited a friend to come over and asked if she would help me with my web site, so when I got out of the shower, she and another friend were in the house, waiting for me. We went over navigating Wordpress, and I am so excited to really dig in and get some things done! Randi has been setting it up and it is looking really amazing. SO excited!
The three of us went to Sticki Picki and I introduced them to the wonders of the Asian photo booth. It was really fun. Afterward, we went to 85 degrees, and I think I took them off guard by how much I could eat--I hadn't eaten since my 10:00 breakfast and I had just swam 1.42 miles. We sat and chatted for a while and then they dropped me at JE's work. He worked late and I fell asleep waiting for him. He borrowed the company truck, as our car is STILL OUT!!!!
When we got home, we changed clothes and left again to go for a run on the trails in Irvine. Just as I was going into my last half mile I tripped on a sprinkler head and went down hard on my hands and knees--even got an elbow raspberried. I'm more bruised than anything else.
Someday, I will go shopping and buy some groceries to accomplish this weekly meal plan--we had left overs for a 10:30pm dinner.
The three of us went to Sticki Picki and I introduced them to the wonders of the Asian photo booth. It was really fun. Afterward, we went to 85 degrees, and I think I took them off guard by how much I could eat--I hadn't eaten since my 10:00 breakfast and I had just swam 1.42 miles. We sat and chatted for a while and then they dropped me at JE's work. He worked late and I fell asleep waiting for him. He borrowed the company truck, as our car is STILL OUT!!!!
When we got home, we changed clothes and left again to go for a run on the trails in Irvine. Just as I was going into my last half mile I tripped on a sprinkler head and went down hard on my hands and knees--even got an elbow raspberried. I'm more bruised than anything else.
Someday, I will go shopping and buy some groceries to accomplish this weekly meal plan--we had left overs for a 10:30pm dinner.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Day 256: Hatching
This afternoon, as I was driving the baker's van up the 55 freeway, I had this sweet moment of pause where I just felt like--This is life. Just sweet, this sense of gratitude and appreciation for the recent events that have taken place. Wheels are turning, things are moving. I made that happen with a series of tiny movements, and my efforts are blessed.
Last night, I received an email from a cousin in Australia, asking me to let my mother know that her great aunt had passed away. While I did not know this aunt,this has been looming in my mind all day, and causing me to stop and be grateful for the people in my life. Thank you for being in my life, friends!
The Baker needed a few items from some places that he couldn't get to before they closed. He asked if I would mind doing it. I visited a German Deli on Chapman called Mattern Sausage and Meats. What a friendly little place! Last night, to help relieve our fridge of some of the cakes and pies, we had friends over to eat. We got talking about hot dogs and how on occasion, we all crave a good snappy dog. Well, Mattern has these beautiful natural casing "frankfurters." Don't dare call them hot dogs, or you will be corrected (in a friendly sort of way). (Such good franks, I bypassed the hummus and went for steamed cabbage, carrots and oven fries with franks and mustard.)
After Mattern, I went to Restaurant Depot. This is a very surreal place, filled with all sorts of foods, but nothing to eat. Industrial sized cans of this and that line the shelves. My favorite part is a walk in refrigerator that could fit 5 Trader Joe's Markets inside. It is so big, they have to offer coats at the entryway, to prevent their customers from crawling into corners to go to sleep from hypothermia. Inside that fridge is huge loaves of cheese, loaves of lunch meats, whole goats--slaughtered and hanging from their feet, 5 gallon buckets of ice cream, frozen prepared foods of all kinds. It is a bit overwhelming, especially while trying to steer an unwieldy pallet cart--the smallest cart they offer.
When I finally got home this afternoon, I put on my bike gear and.... fell asleep on the couch. I did get out for my 36 mile bike from home to the back bay and back.
There was a huge onshore flow, which required constant vigilance and endurance. It was tough going on the way out, and nice on the way home. My sets happened today, rather than yesterday. Fun day!
Last night, I received an email from a cousin in Australia, asking me to let my mother know that her great aunt had passed away. While I did not know this aunt,this has been looming in my mind all day, and causing me to stop and be grateful for the people in my life. Thank you for being in my life, friends!
The Baker needed a few items from some places that he couldn't get to before they closed. He asked if I would mind doing it. I visited a German Deli on Chapman called Mattern Sausage and Meats. What a friendly little place! Last night, to help relieve our fridge of some of the cakes and pies, we had friends over to eat. We got talking about hot dogs and how on occasion, we all crave a good snappy dog. Well, Mattern has these beautiful natural casing "frankfurters." Don't dare call them hot dogs, or you will be corrected (in a friendly sort of way). (Such good franks, I bypassed the hummus and went for steamed cabbage, carrots and oven fries with franks and mustard.)
After Mattern, I went to Restaurant Depot. This is a very surreal place, filled with all sorts of foods, but nothing to eat. Industrial sized cans of this and that line the shelves. My favorite part is a walk in refrigerator that could fit 5 Trader Joe's Markets inside. It is so big, they have to offer coats at the entryway, to prevent their customers from crawling into corners to go to sleep from hypothermia. Inside that fridge is huge loaves of cheese, loaves of lunch meats, whole goats--slaughtered and hanging from their feet, 5 gallon buckets of ice cream, frozen prepared foods of all kinds. It is a bit overwhelming, especially while trying to steer an unwieldy pallet cart--the smallest cart they offer.
When I finally got home this afternoon, I put on my bike gear and.... fell asleep on the couch. I did get out for my 36 mile bike from home to the back bay and back.
There was a huge onshore flow, which required constant vigilance and endurance. It was tough going on the way out, and nice on the way home. My sets happened today, rather than yesterday. Fun day!
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