We have been going to the beach a lot this summer but this was our first trip to a much closer beach. I compiled a quick video. Overall the sand area was super small but Liam still had fun and managed.
Dealing with 3 kids with 3 different swim abilities is not easy with just 1 adult.
I've taken the kids to the water park and theme park a few times. I compiled videos twice but we went more than twice. Here we went on 7/12 and 7/16.
I made a short on youtube so I can't embed that here very well.
I took 3 kids so we didn't go in the pool and then I took 2 kids while Liam was at preschool and we only swam. Traffic was really bad so we took more time driving to and from than we got to spend there in order to get home in time to get Liam from preschool.
I ran my first half marathon in 7 years. I was supposed to run 3 or well 2 halfs and 1 18 mi race last racing season and I didn't get to do any of them.
It was my worst half to date. It was also my first half since having 3 kids. And my first half since having 2 kids. So since 3 kids it's a PR.
lack of food day before
lack of sleep
boxed in
messed up garmin
Well it's 2.5 months later and the above is all I have written for the blog post.
To elaborate, I was boxed in for about 9 miles of the 13.1. That was so annoying. It was really hard when I wanted to do run:walk intervals but you could barely get past anyone so if you stopped to walk then you couldn't pass people again.
The weather was horrible.
I feel like I mentioned lack of food the day before but 2.5 months later I don't even remember those details.
I over dressed then spent a good 4 minutes trying to get my vest and hoodie off and figure out how to hold them. I was also dealign with my hydration vest so I had to take that off to take layers off. The weather was unseasonably cold. It was a cold rain.
I didn't start my garmin as a normal run or a half marathon. it was set as a long run. I thought I'd just advance the lap at the 1 mile mark and it'd fix itself. I forgot that would advance to the optional run and miss the hour or more of the regular run. So around 40 minutes in, I realized my garmin had stopped. I started it again but I was missing over 5 minutes of distance and time. That added to confusion during the entire race.
The photos from the race said you could search by bib number but I think the weather messed that up because you couldn't read numbers on race bibs. I searched through all of the photos to find photos with me.
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| 6:55 Sunscreen |
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| 6:59 Energize |
I pinned my number, put on sunscreen, drank energize, and got in the bathroom line. I thought I had plenty of time so I waited in the real line versus using a portapotty. Well I got done there with 2 minutes or so before the start of the race.
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| 7:26 start line |
The race had 2 waves at the start but I'm not even sure when it was split. I was near 1:50 and 2:00 pacers and they were insanely close together waiting at the start. The start was wide and you had an entire lane at the beginning so I wasn't boxed in at all. It was really nice not being boxed in. I made marco polos to Beth and Ali during my race and saved them for some of howI was feeling. The last few miles I was just so hot that I didn't update.
After I finished I gave many race updates though. I can't believe my heart rate got up to 200.
I didn't arrive late for the first time. So that was nice to be able to use the bathroom and warmup before the race actually started.
I was waiting to post this for some race photos but they were lacking or not posted. The race director posted some photos and I was in 2 but he said look for the actual photographer photos coming soon and I never saw those. They were probably never posted because it's very difficult to post photos to the facebook page and I had a ton of issues when I did it. (I took photos at their 1/1/23 race.)
I did slower than last time but I didn't think I'd do that much slower.
| Perrigo parkrun results for event #120. Your time was 00:26:56. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Congratulations on completing your 3rd parkrun and your 3rd at Perrigo parkrun today. You finished in 28th place and were the 7th Female out of a field of 75 parkrunners and you came 1st in your age category VW35-39. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Perrigo parkrun remains 00:25:44. Your best time this year remains 00:25:44.
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It's been about 5 years since I did a day in the life post. I randomly thought about how I should type today. Google paid storage is too full so I don't have photos backed up so this will be without photos.
7:20 alarm went off and I hit snooze.
7:50-8:30 Got dressed and getting the kids ready for school.
Photobooked until Liam woke up (20 min or so)
Got Liam ready for school
Grocery store
Dropped Liam off at school. (~10:30)
Drove home forget what I did
Left for Trader Joe's
Got home, unpacked, groceries, immediately headed to a meeting.
Meeting location had to change on the fly since the Library isn't open.
Meeting until 12:45.
Drove home, wiped off the counters, put a frozen meal in the microwave and did follow-up to the meeting.
Ate and did follow-up to meeting.
Drove to where I pick up the kids. Ran. Had to cut the run short since I didn't have enough time.
Picked up the kids, listened to some jokes from Ella, took a shower, did some dental insurance stuff, emptied garbages, went and got Liam. Then I put in laundry since he had an accident during nap at school.
Dinner prep, dinner, photobooked while delaying going downstairs for Liam's bedtime. The kids complained about dinner but did better eating compared to normal. Also before dinner was ready, I gave them fruit and they ate 1.5 containers of strawberries that I just bought today. Had issues with photoboking and it took longer. I finished February 2020 in my photobooking.
Got Liam ready for bed but he's awake and I typed this at 10 pm. He will probably go to sleep by 11 pm and I realize I have to do 1 more workout to hit my January goal so I guess after he's asleep that's what I'm doing.
I feel like I had no time but old Day in the life posts were worse since I can sleep almost 8 hours and before I couldn't. (I try all the time to photobook and usually photobook twice a month but I managed to do a little 2 days in a row.)
I made random goals again and forgot about them again or didn't forget about them but then forgot to document. There are a lot of things not complete but I still think I did pretty well.
For 2022, here are my exercise goals and how I did:
Here are the details:
Here's a screen shot of the card I made this year. I didn't make a lot of versions. Since it is cheaper to do a greeting card than the 5x7 prints I used to do, now I don't have a nice saved version.
In September and October, we built shelves. It way longer than I expected. It was hard with all the kid interruptions.
Now it's been done for 2 months and I still barely have containers in there. The little support blocks actually make it more difficult to put containers in and out. Also it's pretty deep so other things fit. It's so hot in there or humid so all the taped on labels or sticker labels have fallen off so it makes it fun to try to find what I need. I think I'll do what Beth told me she did and just write with sharpie on the lid on the few things that will always be in the containers.
I actually had 18 minutes of video so I trimmed a bunch to include just different steps.
I took notes every step of the way with what time we did things or stopped for the day. I didn't look at it when recording voice over and I still haven't looked at it since the day I wrote it. I should take pics of it though.
Every weekend, I do laundry. I do a ton and separate it by person and then also towels. I find it easier to sort first then just fold each person separately. Liam likes to hang out in bed and watch TV while I do it. He always climbs under the covers when he does it.
Note those little laundry baskets are perfect to have each kid have one.
Liam sees me stretching after my runs os much he went to stretch. I thought it was cute.
Photo Taken December 31.
I really wanted to hit 80 miles in August and failed and then I thought for sure I would in September and failed again.
The poor air quality made it really hard to hit 20 miles in a week which is what I wanted.
I decided to do a 5k since it was just my birthday. It's my 2nd Parkrun 5k. I ran my first just over a month earlier on August 27. The course was different this time. It has a different start and finish but you just entered where you run around the ball fields differently and exit differently. That didn't stop the course from being slightly short though.
I wanted to improve and I did!
I was late just like last time. I really need to get out of the house quicker.
I thought I did better for women but apparently some passed me at the turn around and I never noticed.
The weather was almost perfect. It was a great temperature and a little sunny. Last time it was cloudy.
I noticed results posted online before I even noticed the email with my results.
Perrigo parkrun results for event #107. Your time was 00:25:44. |
Congratulations on completing your 2nd parkrun and your 2nd at Perrigo parkrun today. You finished in 27th place and were the 5th Female out of a field of 70 parkrunners and you came 1st in your age category VW35-39. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Congratulations on setting a new Personal Best at this event! Congratulations on your fastest time this year. |
You achieved an age-graded score of 59.07%. For an explanation of age-grading, please see the WAVA age grading overview. |
I did better than last time but had a worse place. I did better by almost a minute but the course was shorter. I am still surprised how well I did even though I also feel like I could have run harder.
My mile splits were different in all the apps. I made a summary graphic in instagram to show all of them.
I had water with me and forgot to drink any during the race. I drank it after and also drank a little more in the car. I was about as late as late time. Maybe even more late since they started talking about the race before I showed up. Last time my Garmin was set to easy run and this time stride repeats so I never actually had mile splits on the Garmin as I ran. I set my app to run:walk intervals of 1:30-0:15 but then I didn't ever walk on them. I did walk 2 or 3 times during the race.
I actually knew where the PR bell was this time so I went to ring it and someone offered to take my picture. Here she was offering everyone. She used my phone to take it so then I had that to make my graphics. The course was shorter but I still would have beat my last time based on pace. According to NRC the average pace went form 8:38 to 8:22 (and the course was .05 shorter)
Next time I need to leave before 8:37. It's too close to 9 am. I went a different way. GPS told me to go a different way but I just followed along. I liked the way last time better. I came home a different way than I came home last time and I liked last time's better too.
I'm surprised I was 5th for females since I only thought I saw 2 ahead of me. I guess I didn't pay enough attention. There were 70 total runners this time and 69 last time.
| Fastest | Average (mean) | Slowest | |
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| Time | 25:44 | 26:18 | 26:51 |
| Age Grading | 59.07% | 57.72% | 56.36% |
| Overall Position | 26 | 26.50 | 27 |
| Gender Pos | 4 | 4.50 | 5 |
Year  | Best Time | Best Age Grading |
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| 2022 | 00:25:44 | 59.07% |
| Run Date | Run Number | Pos | Time | Age Grade | PB? |
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| 01/10/2022 | 107 | 27 | 25:44 | 59.07% | PB |
| 27/08/2022 | 102 | 26 | 26:51 | 56.36% |
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!
