And then there were two . . .

So today I was joined by the lovely laura fletcher (nee jones) on my training. She and I signed up for the marathon on the same day and since I have trained for maybe five days total, I am going to count that as my advantage and hold it over her until the day she actually beats me at the race.

We did a total of two miles and since I was trying to get back into the swing of things and laura was just starting up, we did 8 laps at the GHS track.

Lap 1: walk

Lap 2: walk

Lap 3: walk

Lap 4: RUN!

Lap 5: walk

Lap 6: walk

Lap 7: RUN!

Lap 8: cool down walk (which was exactly the same as the five other walking laps, but this makes us sound like experienced runners. Expect to see me on the cover of runner's world next month.)

Also make sure to check out my new best selling Oprah Book club novel from Penguin Classics:

The Goat Runner

heart and smooches,

Devin

P.S. Today marks five years since Laura and I met. We were introduced outside of institute, which, while kind of lame, is better than meeting her in a bar. Thanks as always to Darson K. Muchas gracias por eternidad.

I'm back!

Dear peeps,

I know I haven't posted on here in a month. For shame, tsk tsk, etc. While I would like to say that I was playing nine-pins with some alcoholic ghosts up in the Catskills and passed out from their spirit spirits, I have been otherwise engaged.

So here's what happened. For the last month, we have been moving. First we moved Reid out of his house. So much stuff. So. Much. Stuff. Then we moved Emily, Bubs, and Annie out to our new house. Then we started moving ourselves out of our house. The point I'm getting at is, I was way too tired to run. I have walked and I have lifted heavy boxes and furniture for hours on end, but I haven't run. Well, I take that back. I was about to start running again until about two weeks ago and then I had a bad toothache one night. Two weeks and two root canals later, I am pretty much healed. I have to admit, it was pretty terrible. I had about three nights in a row where I only got one hour of sleep, never mind how much it hurt. Anyway, that's all behind me. I give my word to floss a lot more frequently. So what about the running?

Just you wait Henry Higgins, just you wait. I'm getting to it. I started running again two nights ago and it was really just a warm up run, probably a half mile or so, but even though I have a lot of catching up to do, I don't want to over do it in the first week. Still, I need to be careful that I don't undertrain. I have decided that I need to recruit this guy to shout eff bombs any time I start to slow down.

It's not like he has any plans this week. I gotta go make a few calls. I might be able to swing this. Trust me, I know a guy.