Weather has been unbelievable for December in Ohio, warm and occasionally sunny, above 60 degrees is unbelievable, by now we should be knee deep in snow and temps in the twenties.

Saturday, decided to head to Pine Lane with Shelby to run trail, this is another great challenging hilly trail, this trail is almost impossible to run sometimes in the winter, once the sheet of ice forms you are sliding down with no way to get back up. I actually remember last year or was it 2 years now, we couldn't even walk in the parking lot due to the sheet of ice so we know the trail was going to be impossible so switch location to Boston run.

You do encounter just about everything on this trail, flat section, uphill, downhill, creek crossing, road, ... you name it, it probably has it and also my favorite tic-tac-toe section with the Pine tree roots, the smell is heavenly at the right time. An out and back to Boston Store is 8 miles, assuming you don't get lost, this is a blue blaze trail but that doesn't mean much, we did better this time and didn't get lost or go  round in circle.

After a quick shower and getting Son#2 up and ready, we headed off to my company employee kid's Christmas party, we have been volunteering at this for a while now even those the boys no longer qualify, I think cut off is 14 and the Son #2 is 20, always a fun event and a chance to see some of the employee's wives and meet their family.

Then a quick trip to the grocery store before heading to a surprise retirement party for a friend, all in all a great Saturday.






Sunday, is another beautiful day and after church and prepping meal for the week, met with Black Girls Run for an impromptu run since the temps where in the 60s. We met up at Rite-Aid , then ran 1 mile to the Bedford High School Trail, to get in some miles around the track then 1 mile back, the 1 mile WU and CD, I try to take it easy and socialize with any new runner or someone I haven't seen in a while but I take the rack serious and normally do my own thing.

Warmup



Today did 4x400m with 1 min recovery walking



then got in 3 quick 0.1mile With 1 min recovery (should have drop this to 30secs) before we had to leave



Then 1 mile back but forgot to reset the Garmin, was mainly walking talking to a newbie.

Had a great time, pace felt good, it will be nice if I can do my speed workout on the track, need to look into that.

All in all a great weekend.

Took the day off work today after realizing I had miscalculated my vacation days, since we are no longer allowed to carry them over to the next year I had 2.5 days to burn off, so made it a 4.5 days weekend

Woke up normal time but read and lounge in bed till about 9am dosing off and on, I really haven't been getting decent sleep due to all the menopausal temperature issues, being too hot or cold tend to wake me off.

Today is interval day, so pulled out Chalean Extreme Burn Intervals, kind of rolled my eyes when I saw that this was 46mins, I think this may be the longest workout in the whole series. This workout is a combination of cardio and strength, strength was being used as recovery, so low weights high reps.

I have to say despite being 46 mins time went by fast and there was a lot of huffing and puffing, the sumo burpees where the last straw, too awhile for my heart rate to come back down on that one that I actually had to pause the strength portion. Great workout.

Spent the rest of the day looking for turquoise 20 gauge beading wire and running errands, my baby is home for Christmas break, always great to have him home and his older brother will meet up with us next week.

Great time in Cincinnati visiting my son for his 20th birthday, so nice to see him and how much he has grown, very proud of the young man he has belong but then still my baby when he complained about all the bugs in front of lighted apartment door.

Got on the arc trainer Saturday, surprise to find an hotel with no treadmill and very few ever have a Cybex trainer so took advantage of it to give the knees a break, did an IClimb workout with Keith being a while since I did one of this then 2 rounds of tabata using free weights lower body for round #1 then upper body. WE then spend the rest of the day with the birthday price dropping him off after some shopping back at his place to spend the rest of the night playing games with friends.

Sunday no workout, since I got limited sleep due to the beautiful 360 restaurant on the 18th floor of the hotel we stayed in, the view from the 17th floor is awesome and the fireworks from the stadium was nice but the constant humming from the rotator was unbearable , it eventually shut off at 10:20pm but due to a private party it came back on at 11pm, after another call to the front desk it finally got shut down again, but it was back on promptly at 10am, really.

Monday after a late night of running around, woke up late but was able to get in an easy 3 miles and 1 round of tabata using jump rope and battle rope, it is hot and humid, can't complaint since we have had nothing bit rain the last couple of weeks.