The Tatted Runner: And Then There Were Three

Oh you think this post is about my running, well it was until today, now the title of this post can be considered a double entendre. As you might have read a few posts ago about Team Elite, I am running the MercyHealth Glass City Marathon on a relay team. As of now I am running the final leg of the relay which tops out at 5.3 miles, so my therapist has worked up a training plan to get me prepped and ready. My plan is slowly ramping up my mileage and Wednesday I went for a three mile run for the first time in months. Miles one and two were fine, however mile three was a little tougher. By the time I finished my legs were tired and the muscles around my hip were a little sore.

Today, was the second try at three miles and it when quite a bit better. I won't lie and say that my legs weren't tired but overall I wasn't as tired and I wasn't sore at all following this try.

I woke up this morning ready to go out till I looked at the temperature sitting right at 30 degrees and thought "come on man". I decided to put off the running till around 6:30 when the temp would be at its peak of 50 degrees, this turned out to be a good decision. The sun stayed out and warmed things up enough to take today's run from almost bearable to down right enjoyable. Now, I am supposed to keep my pace down to around ten minute miles, but I felt good enough that my pace naturally settled in at 9:45 per mile.

Ok so now why the double entendre, well we're soon to be proud parents of a new baby boy. Oh did you think a baby, baby? Nope, were are more about the fur baby type then our species. Currently we have a 13 year old, Widdle, and an almost two year old, Jedi, chihuahua/dachshund mix. Back about a month before my first marathon we had to put down our 11 year old full blood chihuahua due to health issues and recently my life co-pilot Harley, my domestic short haired cat who had been with me for a long time. We have talked several times about bringing in another pet and decided that getting a third dog vs a cat or any other animal would be best, but we didn't get serious about it till very recently. Today Mandy came across a litter of mini dachshunds that were only about a half hour away from us that were born just two weeks ago. They still had one male available, so we went for a visit. We got to see the whole litter and could see why they were snatched up so quick. They were all so cute seeing them cuddling together.