On The Road Again

I had a really good visit in Dallas, but it's nice to be home again. I drove relatively slowly on the way back as I did on the way down. It took an hour longer than it normally would have, but it seemed I had fewer problems with traffic since most were passing me versus the other way around. I left Farmersville at 6:30 a.m. and arrived back at my house around 7:30 p.m.

I'm about 90% decided to do the White Rock half marathon down there on December 14th. I contemplated the full marathon (White Rock in 2003 was my first), but I only have 6 weeks to get the mileage up, and I don't think that's enough to be really prepared versus just sorta prepared.

Workout

November 3
Today is an official rest day. Hah! As if I haven't had plenty of those lately. I wanted to get back on my regular running schedule, though: T, W, R, Sa, Su with M & F as rest days.

Food

Road trip chow: banana & Diet Coke at Dedra's around 6 a.m. followed by an Egg McMuffin & OJ a couple hours later, Corn Nuts, another Diet Coke, an apple, Uncle Somebody-or-other's sour cream & onion chips, Cracker Jack, a little cauliflower and some red grapes once I got to my parents' place and some Halloween candy while there [had to stop by and pick up my overnight bag I left there when I went to the UK]. Nutrition at its finest!

Morning Stats

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Looong Drive South

No, I didn't get on the scales this morning. Cowardly, eh?

The drive to Dallas was long ... about an hour longer than what it used to take me because I lifted the load from the accelerator a bit (around 67 instead of, um, well ..), but the gas mileage is a lot better as a result. I also managed to lose my credit card the last time I filled up the car in Mt Vernon, TX. I paid at the pump & slid the card into my wallet (didn't put it into one of the slots in the wallet ... it was just in the middle part where the wallet folds in half), stuck the wallet in my pocket, filled the tank, & went inside to empty my own tank & get a bottle of water. When I went to pay, I dropped my wallet, but I didn't notice anything lying next to it when I picked it up. Anyway, I got in the car & realized I couldn't find the credit card I paid with. I went back inside to look for it and looked on the ground around my car and inside the car and in my pockets and in my wallet. No dice. So, I called BoA, reported it lost, and cancelled the card & asked them to send a new one to me. Sigh. Good thing that's not my only card. 

Once I arrived in Plano, I met my friend, Brian, at East Side Kelly's (or Kelly's Eastside or some permutation of that) for a beer (Guinness for me and Blue Moon for him) and a very nice spinach salad (no salad for him).

Now, I'm VERY tired and am hitting the hay for a nice long sleep. I brought my running gear, but I'm not feeling very motivated. Brian is running the DRC Half on Sunday. I never got around to registering for it, and now the registration is closed since they reached the cap on entrants. Figures. Oh well. It's warm down here, and you all know how much I love to run in the heat. :-)

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig

I'm back! It's good to be home. My cats & dogs are always so glad to see me. I'm sure they'll be pretty perplexed when I head out again so soon tomorrow morning to go to Dallas for Gene's memorial service.

I had a great trip and will write more about it later at some point. I only ran twice about a week apart, once in Deepcut, Surrey, on one of my favorite running routes and once in Belfast. Both were really good runs and about 6-6.5 miles in length.

My diet was disastrous. I did okay for a couple days, but then it was a pretty steep downhill to a big valley of chips (fries), Penguins, Blue Riband, Walker's crisps (chips), Tayto crisps, Maud's icecream, and lots of pub grub (which tasted really good), beer (not much ... a pint a day for the most part). Once again, I'm afraid to even think about putting my feet on the scales. Might do it in the morning. Sometimes ignorance truly is bliss, though.

The price of gas was down to $2.15 when I got back. In the UK, it was down to 95-99 pence a liter (about $3.60/gallon). I'd rather pay $4 for gas and have the value of my investments go back up to where it was a few months ago, though!