I hope you have a good Valentines Day!!
First Quarter: easy, comfortable warm-up.
Second Quarter: hold a good pace.
Third Quarter: RACE!!
Fourth Quarter: hold on for the ride!
When I attempted my first stand-alone marathon this past summer, I had my usual list of goals: what I COULD do, what I WANTED to do, and what would be the BEST possible scenario. I made a major mistake on that list. My first goal should have been simply to “finish.” I didn’t finish that marathon. That scenario was never even anything I worked out in my head. That was stupid of me.
So tomorrow, no matter what happens, I’ll be finishing my second half marathon. Anything better than that is just icing on the cake.
Mmmmm.... cake.
Christmas light? It's ok... my Christmas tree laying on my bedroom floor.
ReplyDeleteHappy V Day!
Don't feel bad, we still have ours up too. We didn't have them lit but they are still up.
ReplyDeleteGood luck tomorrow. Happy Valentine's Day.
Personally, I think you should have left your lights up. As long as you don't light them, it would have saved you some work next winter! :)
ReplyDeleteHope you had a good race, and Happy Valentine's Day
Have a great half and don't wear yourself out with the decorations
ReplyDeleteCarly, ours were still plugged in and on the timer. So they were going every night!! Glad to have them down (and off)!!
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dominic baked me a triple layer chocolate cake with cream cheese icing in the middle. i wish i could share with you. it is huge. pix on my blog.
ReplyDeleteI just took our christmas stuff down this past week when it warmed up nice and the ground was soft enough to pull out the stakes! Nice to have it down!
ReplyDeleteGood luck on the race!
hahahaha. That is awesome about the lights. My dad used to keep his up until way into march. "Too damn cold to take those bitches down"...
ReplyDeleteMy wife doesn't seem to let the same excuse slide for me. Pharmie 1, my wife 0.
Hilarious about the Christmas lights, and totally true!
ReplyDeleteGood luck. I like the "hold on for the ride". I know how that feels. pain everywhere.
ReplyDeleteHell, my 4 foot evergreen tree has lights on it still, even though I probably turned them on a whopping 3 times this holiday season. We just got too much snow in December, and all you could see for 2 months was the tip of the tree. What a wasted effort. LOL.
ReplyDeleteHappy Valentine's Day... love the teddy bear picture! HA!
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!
ReplyDeleteThat picture ROCKS!!!
GOOD LUCK in tomorrow's half marathon!!! I know your going to run a great race!!!!
At this point, you may as well have just left 'em up!
ReplyDeleteGood luck wtih your race tomorrow!
I took everything down -- tree, decorations, lights -- on deb 26. I am obsessive like that.
ReplyDeletehave a great race!!
i just updated the shamwow post w/ a video. :)
ReplyDeleteI think you should have left them up, and turned the lawn into a patio or a disco. Put the speakers out the window, and we'll all come over, for STEVE'S HOUSE-RENT PARTY, and dance till dawn, to the strains of "Gimme a pigfoot, a reefer, and a bottle of gin."
ReplyDelete(After Garrison Keillor, Minnesota has some catching up to do. Penance, more likely....)
Go Steve! Good luck tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteGood luck but you ARE one of those neighbors if you're lights are still up. It's OK, we have a neighbor with a NOEL flag still up...must be hard to take down.
ReplyDeleteI don't put up Cmas lights, saves on the nagging ;-)
ReplyDeleteGood luck tomorrow!
good luck! im betting you finish top 5.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you're gonna rock the half. Have fun.
ReplyDeleteGood luck, even though I think you'll do awesome!
ReplyDeleteWE physically can't remove the lights until spring without causing some major damage. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
ReplyDeleteGood Luck tomorrow, I look forward to reading the race report!
ReplyDeleteNext year put up all red and green lights and tell everyone they are valentine's day and st patrick's day lights. good luck tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteThere are people on my street who still turn their Christmas lights ON!
ReplyDeleteGood luck tomorrow. YOU'VE GOT THIS!
Good luck tomorrow!!
ReplyDeletePlease. I still have my Christmas tree up.
As long as you weren't still lighting them up it's all good. LOL
ReplyDeleteGood luck tomorrow!
Thanks for the reminder to take down the giant silver balls I have hanging from our denuded front yard tree--by now I don't even see them anymore--and if the neighbors are talking, well, they're doing it behind closed doors!
ReplyDeleteHave a GREAT run tomorrow.
Good plan, sock it to 'em!
ReplyDeleteI just read about that "other marathon." What an appalling story. Whatever you were trying to prove, evidently wasn't so.
ReplyDeleteI hope you finish, but if this time begins to feel like last time, you're still not ready, so STOP! O.K.?
Otherwise, don't come playing on my sympathy with your lurid melodrama, how STEVE the ROADKILL RUNNER vomitted his LAST POWERBAR on the way to the MORGUE....
I mean it when I say, ENJOY your run!
Or ELSE!!!
(Please.)
Our first Christmas together we waited until March to take out the Christmas tree. Yup, St. Patrick's Day Eve we took out the tree under cover of darkness--I was too ashamed to do it in daylight.
ReplyDeleteNow, we're much better. The tree only made it to MLK day weekend this year.
Christmas lights aren't THAT bad, I still have my moldy jack o lantern on my front porch!
ReplyDeletejust kidding.....
Have fun with the 1/2!
Best wishes with the half mary!
ReplyDeleteI solved the Christmas lights thing by not putting any up. Ha!
You are still better than us, we didn't even hang them this year! A couple of scrooges, we are.
ReplyDeleteYou are probably done with your half mary already and enjoying some obscenely large meal, but I hope it went well and you got your PR.
HOA made me take then down last year in March. (BIG EYES). Never been ONE OF THOSE before, but it was kind of rebellious... this year they came down on New Years day (as they should)! :)
ReplyDeleteJust taking the lights down...love it! Hey you have priorities!
ReplyDeleteHey, at least you did not have your Christmas tree up until Easter. I did that one year. Easter Bunny came and decorated it with strings of lights that looked like Marshmallow Peeps and hung plastic eggs from the branches.
ReplyDeleteHey, it was the year after my Mom had passed away. Not that that is an excuse but it was a hard year to have my act together.
so? what kind of icing was it??
ReplyDeleteinquiring mind and all,
Miz.
Holy crap.....I thought I was bad taking the lights down the 1st weekend in January :-)
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