Strollin'

Another stroller run today. On Wednesdays my brother-in-law has his MBA classes so I've been going over to my sister's house to have dinner and hang out. We ran this evening with my two nieces and once again - I got to push the older one. Hills seem to multiply in height and length when pushing an antsy three-year-old and screaming the ABCs. I don't mind it though, I'm in the best company and it's a great workout. Not only am I running but I also get a good arm and ab workout and it probably helps tone my legs too. I ran three miles and felt pretty good.

Here's a funny story for you. As you know I worked out in my apartment fitness room on the elliptical last night. Well, since I read instead of listened to my iPod, I put my iPod on the bike machine next to the elliptical I was on. When I was done, I left and unfortunately, also left my iPod. :-( I put all the pieces together this morning when I was rummaging around trying to find it. I was disappointed, of course, but I didn't think that much of it. Casually looking around on ebay, I found a few iPod Touches that I had no intention of buying. I was surprised with how inexpensive they were on ebay - even though they were the refurbished versions. I bid on a couple that were around $100 just for kicks and was very quickly outbid. I've never bid on anything off ebay before and it was kind of fun so I did it one more time on a fairly cheap one with 10 minutes remaining in the auction. Guess who's the new owner of an iPod Touch? Hmm not exactly what I planned to get out of the day but realistically (and yes, this is me convincing myself that it wasn't a completely stupid move) I do need one and it was an unbelievable price ($126). I'm excited about the wifi and all the apps that come with it so I guess I'll deal.

Tomorrow Chris and I will be traveling to Louisville for the weekend to visit his family. He gets off work at midnight so we are going to get on the road then so we aren't wasting a day driving. He is going to start out on the trip and then I'll pick up when he needs to sleep. I don't know why we think that I'll be up and at 'em around 2am but I guess we'll find out. I'll have to try and get to sleep right when I get home from work tomorrow to be as prepared as I can be so I'm going to try to wake up and get a run in before work. Hopefully the sheets won't pull as had to get me back in bed this time but if for some reason I lose that battle (and often times I do) I will have to fit one in after work and then try and get some sleep afterward.

I plan on taking Friday off so if I can't catch up on here until this weekend - I hope to have some good news after the 16-miler I have to tackle on Saturday. Have a great weekend!! :-) Happy running!