first run, first day of break

monday am yoga at the training center...week 5 of 6...so sad...i love yoga in the morning on monday...it reminds me that i have been forgetting to breathe for the whole week...and starts my new week off right...was feeling a little sad in the morning...still thinking about erin...but it was nice to be among teammates who understand...catherine gave jane and i each a heart shaped rock from arizona...that she had found out there...man...that was really touching...not only do i have rocks from some significant points in my life...my mom had rocks on the window ledge of the kitchen that i always look at when i was doing the dishes at home...so there is something very comforting about an arizona rock...thanks catherine....very very cool...

i spent the day typing up recipes and digging through my cook books to work on erin w's cooking lessons...i'm having so much fun...i'm finding stuff that i forgot about...that i wanted to or used to make...love it...digging through vegetarian cooking for every one i found that split pea soup recipe that i love so much...mmm...making that...it's going to take another day or so to get everything typed up...but it is so much fun...

made some tomato sauce in the afternoon...so good...used a recipe...sort of...that i found on epicurious...you add two cups of arugula at the end of cooking...we got two huge bags of arugula from the farm share this week...yum!

then it was off to run practice...throughout the day the temperature had been dropping...i woke up to about 40 degrees and by the time i went to running it was in the low 30's very strange for this town...so i layered and layered...and added a hat and gloves...core was cold...even after a warm-up lap...but i was starting to get warmed up by the end of it....during our main set of hills...i began to remember how much fun it is to run in the cold...good practice

i think going to that run was a real mental hurdle...and i was successful...my legs did remember how to run not at the ironman shuffle pace...and i mentally wanted to be there...and that is a good sign...i'm thinking that this training cycle...and this marathon are going to be for erin lahr...just a personal dedication to my fallen teammate who will be greatly missed.

and of course i checked my chem grades one last time before bed...they were posted...all i can say about that is pray for a curve...not exactly what i had wanted...but it's in the past now...hello organic chem !