Weekly Wrap-up OR "If You Give a Girl a Treadmill..."

It's been a busy week here, not for work (that will pick up for Thanksgiving) but for everything else.  We had our Disney Day to celebrate 100 days until our Disney trip and then Friday when I ran I officially celebrated in my head since it was 100 days until the race! 

Training went well, the weather cooperated two out of my three run days, so I was able to do 4 easy miles outside on Monday with Dallas, 3 miles on the TM at the gym Wednesday, and then my long run outside on Friday.  I was scheduled for 5 miles for a long run, which I realized I don't really care for.  It's too long to call a short run but too short to really feel accomplished.  I need to run for over an hour apparently, for it to feel like a long run! 54 minutes just isn't the same.  LOL. It flew by, however, because I was mentally planning our park touring at WDW.  All the changes with Fastpass+ have thrown a wrench in my normal obsessive trip planning.

 

It ended up being a great run and the planning in my head helped pass the time.  I came home to just about the best mail day, ever! 

My MIL purchased a treadmill for us as a family gift this year.  It arrived as well as THREE Sparkleskirts!  A girl has to look good when she runs.  Truth be told, I won't wear anything but Sparkleskirts anymore and not because they are cute, but because of the massive pockets in the legs and the no riding up.  Love them.  

Dallas & I put the treadmill together in about thirty minutes with only minor cursing.  I thought since it was smaller than gym treadmills, it would fit well in the living room.  Not so much.  It really took up a lot of space. 

I had already run five miles, but you know I couldn't just let it sit there, unused!  I jumped on (in one of my new skirts, naturally) and did a mile test drive.  It worked great, BUT, my house is older and it shook nearly every corner of the house.  Dallas came in and said his computer monitor and glass were shaking in his room! 

I decided to try and put it in my room.  My room is an addition build onto the house, so I thought the floor might be different, and I was right.  Once I moved the furniture around, I was able to put it in front of the window looking out into the back yard.  Perfect!  Dallas did a test run this time and it didn't shake the rest of the house, so this will be it's permanent home. 

Have you read the "If you give a mouse a cookie..." type books?  Let's just say that is how my brain has been functioning this week.  When I went to take a photo of the treadmill in my room, I realized that I hated the color of the room.  The trim looked dirty and the bright blue we had the room painted looked dated.  So naturally, I had to paint the whole room yesterday! LOL!  

Not kidding, I got a treadmill, had to rearrange my room, and then had to paint it.  I picked a grey color, which is actually really abnormal for us.  Our whole house has color, we lived in apartments with white walls for so long when we were young, we swore to paint all our walls bright colors when we owned our own house.   I don't have the funds to replace all my curtains & bedding right now, so I wanted something that would look ok with them for the meantime.  I like it better than the blue, but the jury is still out.  It needed a fresh look though, so I'm glad the blue is gone.  

Today was not a normal day to run, but it's in the 60s this morning, breezy, and beautiful,  so I had to go out just run for fun.  I need to do that sometimes when following this training schedule.  I ran up around the lake and just enjoyed the beautiful sunrise. 

Sometimes I feel like I'm just marking off the runs and it gets a little...too planned or something.  This morning I just let go of the numbers and just ran.  I had a little flash of  "that girl" (myself) I think of occasionally ... I posted about it months ago, if you missed it: Getting Personal  It was a positive run, it feels like I'm healing myself when I run sometimes.  I don't want to ramble on, repeating myself, so I digress...

I'm glad I have been getting some things done around the house because next weekend work will pick up and the whole following week I will be slammed with petsitting for the Holiday!  Rey comes home too, YAY!!

How did your week go?  Do you ever do the  give a mouse a cookie thing?  Do something that makes you do something else and end up doing a bunch of subsequent stuff? Do you ever feel a little bored or tied down by a training schedule and just want to go run?