What a great morning! It was misting and about 59 degrees when I left for my run. So I put on a hoodie over my tank top and hoped it would not progress towards an all out downpour before I got done. I guess the rain scared everyone else off because I had the track to myself and it was so nice and quiet and misty and foggy. Loved it. There was a cute little red eft on the track, so I slowed down to point it out to my son who was playing nearby and then slowed down again to request that my son please be careful not to kill said red eft. I love reptiles and amphibians, so I would have liked to have sat and watched it for a while but I had running to do. But anyway, I still finished in 35:39 so my time from the other day must have been right. And I LOVE MY LAP COUNTER. That was so freeing. I was able to forget about what lap I was on for the whole second mile. Just pushing the little button as I finished each lap. Nice. Definitely worth the ten bucks and probably better than dealing with the electronic version I thought about getting. My lap counter looks like this, but I got it at Target. I can see this as really helping me let go of all of the mental math that I do when I run and just RUN. That is the next thing I need to work on. That inner five year old again with the “how much fuuuurrrther???”. When I do let go of that, I enjoy the running so much more.
I must fess up to a binge last night. Can you believe it? I came home from that running meeting and ended up stuffing my face!! What on earth?! I am not really sure what brought it on. I think that I just really wanted to feel full for a change. I don’t know. It was stupid though. The good thing is that it doesn’t happen often and I know that. So I don’t beat myself up too bad about it. I usually just know that I need to follow it up with a couple of really good days to make up for it. So today and tomorrow I am on probation. 
My information from the 5k training thing says that we should have a “water bottle pack”. Is this something that looks like a fanny pack? I guess I will have to get a smaller waterbottle then because my big ol hunking nalgene bottle is so not fanny-packable.
Breakfast and lunch are the norm, fruit of the day: nectarine. Not sure what we are having for dinner yet.
***The pic of the eft above is from www.wingwatchers.com It must totally rock to parade around in their little salamander world being that bright orange color. Then they get older and change color and become not so eye-catching sort of like humans I guess except for the color changing part.
