CA to WA move

When we moved from CA to WA, we drove up. I took notes in my planner about our trip. I planned to blog but them I never did anything with them. I guess months later, I might as well type them up and make a post about the move. 

I just randomly typed up notes instead of nice sentences. 

June 4

1:50. We got in the car and left.  As we were leaving the driveway, a person came to pick up the charcoal I was giving away for free. 

2:05 we got in the Chick-fil-A line. 

2:20 still stuck in the Chick-fil-A line. 

4:00 left Target (bathroom and bought a key fob battery)

4:10 Water out window fiasco.  Failing at googling at gas station.

5:18 stopped for gas

5:24 got $100 worth (485 mi range)  (15045 mi) 

hotel hectic

awake 6 am 

8:47 almost left. Needed to find HDMI cord

8:54 left for good (ETA 6:42 PM 9 hours 45 minutes 599 miles) 
Note used 190 mi range within 130 mi

9:50 Poly peed hopefully in the litter

9:57 no rain. sunny unsure when it stopped. just noticed. 

10:03 Rest area 15, 204 mi

11:13 just passed our moving truck !!!!!!

11:22 gas $5.19 15279 432 mi range 

11:54 done at  In N Out. the line took awhile 

Bathroom Break and Ella and Miles switch seats

1:04 Yell. We pull over to yell at the kids 

2:00 Bathroom break and on the road again

2:57 Liam finally asleep.  Ella fell asleep a bit ago. 

3:22 Rest Area

3:44 left rest area while inside Dave thinks he saw our stuff drive by. 

4:06 Updated destination to pick up the car.   Says we will arrive in 3 hours (without stops) 15526 mi (fuel range 215 mi)

4:45 in WA now

4:53 Rest Stop 
Gas- Safeway - used fuel perks

5:31 Taco Bell - 5:42

6:27 Bathroom.  Poly ate, drank, and peed

6:37 On road

7:35 at MVP to get Tesla

8:12 Carrying Poly inside our new house!

10k time trial (9.25.22)

I set up my Garmin for a 10k race. But it was a made up race. With all the kids home all the time all summer, it was just hard to get runs in. I cut almost every run short because I just couldn't be gone long enough.  I used the Garmin Training plan initially with a date of Sept 17 but then got too busy and air quality got bad so I pushed the date of the "race" a week later.  

I ran that today. I timed it that I'd finish the 10k before I have to run up the stupid steep hill.  Then I turned around late so I decided to do a benchmark run for my next training plan right after. I was surprised how well I did on that with having already run a hard 10k. It was so hot and sunny too. 

I didn't take enough water.  I knew I wasn't taking enough but then during the run I felt like it'd be cheating to pause my timer to take the lid off my water bottle and fill it up at the water fountain so I didn't do that. I'm pretty sure my time would have been worse if I stopped since being in the groove of running at the end is what kept me going and slowing to cross the street just kept me running a bit slow after. 

NRC achievements (only been using NRC Since September 2021)

Screen shot from a few weeks ago with how confident the app was that I'd make 58 minutes. 

My goal time was 58 minutes. I did not think I'd meet that. According to NRC I hit 10k at 56:28.  My old 10k PR is 56:01 from 2011. 56:13 was my 2nd best from 2009. That one was my first 10k ever.  I've done a few 10k since having kids but none as good as today.  So today is my third best. 

It's different just doing a 10k on my own versus at an actual race. The race adrenaline just isn't there so I feel like I did pretty well. 

I don't know why I was so not confident in even hitting 58. I would hit and beat my speed runs. I just felt like I was cutting my runs all too short so I thought I'd run out of steam. I did run out and the last 2 miles were tougher. The first 3 were no problem.  My mile splits did get worse. 

I'm definitely the type of person who needs to train longer than the race. I notice lots of people don't need to. They are fine running 10 mi as the longest training run before a half. I am not. I need longer. After more than 10 years of running races, I have learned I need longer so that's always good to know. 

Next up is a training plan for a half marathon. I just need to find an actual race now. 

Strava Mile splits (Garmin sends Data to Strava)

Strava achievements

NRC mile splits

Mapmyrun mile splits

Garmin Mile Splits

I hate how you can only get 5 miles of mile splits properly onto a mapmyrun display. it's annoying. if you look on the website you still can't see it as well as any other app. I actually like how Strava looks better than Garmin for splits but it is Garmin's Data. 

According to Garmin my fastest mile and slowest mile were 44.1 seconds different. According to NRC the difference was 57 seconds! And Mapmyrun had the spread at 41 seconds. The goal is to be more consistent.  I ran an 18 mile race once with only 26 seconds of range from slowest to fastest.  (Both races not counting partial mile at the end.)   I did have a downhill in mile one in the 10k so that helped make it the fastest. 

I just realized a day later I never took my inhaler. At an actual race where adrenaline has me going faster, I would have needed it for sure. It probably would have helped anyway. Near the end of the run, smoke smell was annoying. The app said air quality was 75 when I finished the run which isn't that bad but it got a little worse. Dave went outside later and said he smelled smoke too even though air quality technically wasn't that bad. 

9/16/22 instastories

I recently worked on my 2021 photobooking and I loved the photos I had put captions on for instastories so I knew the story and it was already typed so I decided to post some instastories even though I hadn't in so long. 

The painter came to finish. Liam watched his iPad while I photobooked. We went for a run. Liam fell asleep in the stroller. Dave worked on woodworking after work. And so much more.

Happy Birthday Miles

 

Miles turned 6. We got a new kind of ice cream cake and it was hit. Everyone thought it'd be horrible. It was not.