sunday's very long run

I spent the entire day on Sunday cleaning my house, tidying up and doing laundry. Laundry tok a very long time...I flooded my basement. What happened? Well, my washer and my dryer sat very far apart from eachother downstairs, so I pushed them to be closer together so that I could balance my laundry basket between them....I didn't even think that I might be stretching the hose! Well, I did, and the hose came off..so the washer was trying to fill up the load with water, buy I had pulled a plug and all the water was shooting out the bottem! Luckily, there is terrific drainage in my basement, and there was hardly any mess to speak of!

At around 4:20 I went out for a run. I ran to the river and back. What was an hour long run took me 35 mins today! I can't believe how much of a difference I am seeing in my running abiltites up here! I went home, and changed into cooler clothes cause I was so hot, and decided to run again...so that I would at least be out for an hour.

This time I ran opposite direction of the river, towards the basball diamonds. The house just after the baseball diamonds is also our car junk yard...and I had heard that across from that house was a road for quads that should take me back to the school. So, I took it. It was a great run and the smell of the forest after the rain we've had for the last couple days was invigorating! I enjoyed every second of my run...until I came to a fork in the road..I didn't know where to go. I steered left. Another fork...I took the middle path...another fork and I steered left. I was lost. Very lost. Eventually running down that quad path I knew I would get to a main road with homes...so I kept going. When I got to the main road I didn't know which way was North or anything...so I just ran. I was apparently heading out of town...LOL! And I was to embarrased to turn around, so I kept running until I came to no houses...cause I didn't want anyone to see me turn around....(I am very proud sometimes!). Once I turned around, I followed the road. Eventually I started recoginzing homes. I saw Jeffery's house where I played Chinese Baseball, I passed Nancy's parents house, and I finally came to the Corner Pocket (our restaurant). From there I had only to run back into town, and head back home. My short little half hour run became an hour and a half. But it was worth it. I ran somewhere I had never been...children shouted, "Hello Miss Cassidy" from almost every house, and I got to see where some of my students lived.

I wore a skirt today because I am so happy with the way my calve muscles look...I am starting to look like a runner. Slowly..but yahh!!