Mini-Marathon Update... Finished and PR

So another Mini-marathon has come and gone. As I said before I was a bit disappointed with my training. It had really fallen off since the Full in March. Seems life got in the way.

Anyway, as it turned out Steve and I ran about a perfect consistent 10:00 - 10:20 min/mile. As you may recall my goal was to do it in 2:14:59...

As we came up on mile 11.5ish.. :) I was feeling pretty good. At mile 12, the clock time was 2:06 and change. I had to basically do the next 1.1 mile in under 10 minutes to make a 2:10 time. I felt like I could do that so I started to increase the pace.

At some point in there I started to feel a little ahead of myself and I decided to take a quick walk at about 3/4 mile to go and then again a 1/2mile to go.

I crossed the finish line and was excited... and saw I had missed the 2:10 mark by about 30 seconds...

So we went to the results tent to get the official results....

Here they are: My New Personal Record!
2:10:05 seconds!
9:56 min/mile
YES I MISSED THE 2:10:00 by 5 seconds! but i still broke the 10min/mile mark.

I am looking at doing the Giest Half on the 17th... we shall see
-me-

off to the mini!

I am off to the mini! Look for the update later... so far it is semi-dry!

-me-

Carbohydrate Day.. and more

Tomorrow is my third attempt at the Indianapolis Mini-Marathon! 13.1 miles.... While I probably won't hit my original goal of 1:59:59, I am now hoping on breaking 2:14:59....

I have to be honest, I haven't been training nearly what I wanted to, but on Tues I ran 10.4 miles and it felt alright... it was slow... 10:30 pace, but I think I will be able to take it up from there.

Yesterday and today I have been battling a little bout of a stomach bug. It won't stop me but if it continues tomorrow, it could make for an extended run, with the runs... I will post tomorrow with the status of my run... If your lucky I may even be able to post from the finish area!

In other news: the house stuff is starting to get old; yes already. I know it is still early, but it is really slow... more than I expected. we have only had 1 showing and it was just a "starting to look". Part of me just wants to punt the whole idea, but the other doesn't... I don't know!

Oh, and a last note... The kids had been saving their $$ for a Nintendo Wii! Yesterday they finally got to get one. I must say, it is pretty fun! In case you don't know what it is. It is a gaming console, but with this one, you have to move. So the kids actually get a little exercise while playing... I think my arm is sore from playing last night!

Back to the grind, been a rough week at work... So Ta-Ta For now.

-me-

Housing Update...

Not a whole lot to update you on. Our Contingent offer has been accepted, this means that if we can sell our home: Click to View our Listing that we will be buying the new one.

We sat down today with our lender, Ted J Sherfick of First Horizon Home Loans who is very helpful and went over our options. We now feel very comfortable that we will have no problem with making this happen in a way that will work for us.

We had an open house on Sunday which seems to have had gone well. We had at least one interested family, however they don't have their home on the market just yet... I feel really good about our home selling... But I must say, I am so not enjoying the fact that this process is now out of my control.

I like to know that things I do can impact the process, and this right now is out of my control... I am trying not to let that bring me down, but I think it may be a little bit. I know we keep saying we are in this for whatever comes... however that doesn't make it any easier.

It just happened that the other day the home we have the offer in on had an open house on Sunday. Everytime we go in there we become more attached to it. It just feels right.

The worst thing that could happen is that the house gets sold before we sell ours.

Well enough from me for now.

-me-