Almost Done

Today i woke up and the pain and swelling was much improved! I had an ultrasound on my gull bladder for my stomach pains this morning, so i was not able to make it to cross country.  After that, i ate a little solid food, and then had a sports physical! All of this my mom drove me to, so no gas was wasted (yet) haha.  After all that, i ran in the heat of the day at 12.  It was absolutely terrible...so hot!  Afterward, i hung out with my girlfriend for the rest of the day.  We got some food and just relaxed for awhile.  Then we swam for a couple hours, and then we chilled out for the night in my basement.  Something we have not done much of this summer, so it was nice to just take it easy! Tomorrow we are not sure what we are doing, but wednesday we plan to visit Chicago again before school starts! Tomorrow cross country is at my high school, so 5 miles of biking will be done.  Goodnight.

Total summer mileage: 145.1 miles
Money saved on gas (20 mpg at $3.96 per gallon): $28.73

Feeling Better

Today was day 3 of my recovery. Although the swelling was at it's worst when i woke up, it gradually went down throughout the day.  With a proper regimen on medicine and icing, it is feeling a lot better.  I still did little physical activity, except mow my yard this evening.  I did hang out with my girlfriend again just for a little bit.  I did not run, i plan on running again tomorrow.  However, i have an ultrasound on my gull bladder in the morning so i will have to run after that, not at cross country practice.  I am still tired from my pain and medicine, goodnight.

Total summer mileage: 145.1 miles
Money saved on gas (20 mpg at $3.96 per gallon): $28.73

NTD (3.3 miles)

Nothing To Do.  Three words to describe a 10 hour day at work.  Beforehand, at cross country, we ran a 5K time trial, 3.1 miles, and i hit 17:38.  I am happy with that sub 6 pace.  I rode my bike to and from work, 3,3 miles, and on the way there, i was in a hurry and hit a curb...Haha i made a great save and didn't fall but my chain did fall off! My hurrying definitely backfired.  At work, i did pretty much nothing... Then tonight i laid around and watched TV. I am getting lazy toward the end of summer! Tomorrow is widsom teeth day, i cannot wait. Jk.  I am so tired from work and running i need some decent sleep! No running tomorrow because of surgery, goodnight.

Total summer mileage: 145.1 miles
Money saved on gas (20 mpg at $3.96 per gallon): $28.73

Saturday (3.3 miles)

I couldn't think of a better title for today...it wasn't an interesting day.  It was raining again before work but this time i just biked through it and i didn't get too wet.  This gave me my 3.3 miles for the day. It was hot out but the rain defnietly cooled me off.  I ran 5 miles in it and the weather was fine, what was bad this time was my legs.  They were extremely sore after a day off because i ran 13 days in a row.  Work was okay.. For the first few hours, our computers were down fro mthe storms so we had to do everything manually, even credit cards... It was brutal.  Then, at the end of the day we found someone clogged the toilet in our bathroom with jet black diarrhea... Great after yesterday!  We spent half an hour trying to fix it... We got all the diarrhea out but it is still clogged.  A project for tomorrow now.  Tonight i just chilled out at home, a nice change after being so busy lately!  Summer seems to be coning to a close... Next Friday i get my wisdom teeth out. Yay.  Goodnight.

Total summer mileage: 133.5 miles
Money saved on gas (20 mpg at $3.97 per gallon): $26.50

Storms (3.2 miles)

Today i got to sleep in a little bit because i took the day off from running.  When i woke up, it was storming like crazy outside.  By the time i had to leave for work, it was starting to die down, but it was still raining pretty good.  This meant i had to drive to work.  I also had to stop by my girlfriends house again to drop soemthing else off..haha.  This was 4.8 miles i didn't get to ride!  Work was okay, i had to do the truck by myself again and i even checked everythign thing in myself and built most of the stuff.  After work, the rain was gone.  I drove home, got some dinner, then biked to my girlfriend's house for a little bit to play with her kitten again haha.  I biked back at night for my first official night ride with the light.  It was actually very relaxing and i enjoyed it a lot! Tomorrow i work again and i need to get to the bank...so if everything goes as planned i should have some pretty high mileage tomorrow!  Goodnight.

Total summer mileage: 130.2 miles
Money saved on gas (20 mpg at $3.97 per gallon): $25.84

Hottest Day Yet (4.8 miles)

Today was interesting and tiring.  I woke up to run a 6 mile tempo at practice and it was just too hot, it turned into a 5 mile disaster... After that exhausting practice, i got ready for work and left a few minutes early because i had to run something to my girlfriends house before work.  This added on an extra 1.5 miles, making the day 4.8 miles.  Work was difficult.  I worked all day, half by myself.  I unloaded a huge truck by myself which was awful, the truck driver stood and watched. My legs were so exhausted i had such a hard time.  After work, i hung out with my friends and what did they want to do? Go bowling... more activity for my legs..that's what i needed!  It was a lot of fun though, we played for money and i ended up losing $4 unfortunately... Oh well!  Now i am home, extremely tired.  A day off from running tomorrow sounds great before a 10 hour day at work! Goodnight!

Total summer mileage: 127.0 miles
Money saved on gas (20 mpg at $3.97 per gallon): $25.21

Hot! (3.3 miles)

Today there was a heat index of over 100! I worked 11-5, so i avoided the outdoors.  I rode my bike the 3.3 miles through the grueling heat...needless to say i had a little sweat going.  Unfortunatly, at work i cut my finer so it is very difficult and painful to type write now! So i shall keep it short.  After work, i hung out with my girlfriend and her friend.  My girlfriend just adopted a cute little kitten today, so we played with that all night! We also went to go get some ice cream, which ended up being an adventure to find her lost phone.At McDonald's, where we got the ice cream, these super religious weird people came up to us and started preaching to us about God... I am a Catholic and i love God, but it was super creepy and rude in my opinion. 

Anyway, i had to drive to her house because i knew i would be driving to get ice cream.  I drove about 10 miles, a few extra bacuse of the lost phone.  Gas prices have stayed at $3.89, bringing the average down to $3.97.  Shockingly low gas prices for the summer, hopefully it stays this way in the winter because i will need to be driving then.  Goodnight.

Total summer mileage: 117.2 miles
Money saved on gas (20 mpg at $3.97 per gallon): $23.26

Work (3.3 miles)

Today was just a regular ole day, working all day with a decent sized truck.  Luckily, this time i had help so it didn't take too long and we finished everything...so tomorrow there will be nothing to do!  I rode my bike to work and back, it was hot weather, but there was a wind too cool you down.  Except the wind sucked while riding!  I was too lazy to run before work, so i ran a 5 miler after work.  The biking was the usual 3.3 miles, once again without my speedometer.  I am quite angry about that, i spent $20 on the speedometer and it stops working after like 2 months.  That totally cancels out all the money i have saved on gas.  I am very dissapointed and do not know what to do, but i guess that is just life.  Hopefully i can find a new battery because i believe that is the problem.  Tomorrow i do not have much goign on, so i will attempt repair then.  Goodnight.

Total summer mileage: 110.6 miles
Money saved on gas (20 mpg at $3.98 per gallon): $22.01