Day 19 - TURRRRKEY! TURKEY! TURKEY! TURKEY!!!!

I love Thanksgiving. The turkey the, the family, the football, the turkey, the crisp autumn air, the turkey, and the turkey. Today is turkey day so you all know what we will be having for dinner tonight, and I'm not going to bother to post any recipes since I actually don't know how to cook a turkey (but do know that we cook it breast down to make it extra moist) and I have not made the potatoes and gravy yet (this is my first year) so I have to test them out on my relatives before subjecting my loyal readers to unforeseen disaster (although at this point I think that they are both the same group - oh well).

I have to give a big shout out to my Mom and Dad, who are out visiting my sister Kristen, my brother in law Steve, and their boys Christopher and Brenden (Boo), and of course Kree the big black dog. I'm sure you are all glued to the computer screen anxiously awaiting my next post. Please send pictures and I will show you all off.

I also hope to post some pictures from Becky's folks' house tonight where we will be, and we can have a virtual thanksgiving.

I have to say that as excited I am about the turkey and the beautiful day we are having today, I am almost equally less excited about today's run. Normally an hour and five minute run means about eight miles and that I was really looking forward too until I decided to push my run on Tuesday and turn 4 sub 7:30 miles. Not a good idea, and not my coach's idea either, I just got a little carried away feeling like a 98 lb Kenyan until the wheels fell off. As a result last night's run was a disaster, a real demoralizer. I hurt bad for the first mile, just hurt a little for the second, and really hurt bad for the last mile. I made it through only stopping for traffic, but it was a far cry from how I felt on Tuesday, and even more so it was hard to keep myself convinced that this was part of the process and that I was still getting better at running. I have to say that this was the first appearance of 'The Voice' which I will go into detail about after my run today. For now it is time to stretch out and get ready to hit the road.

I'm going all Rocky Balboa on this run just to get through. DA DA DA NA DANANANA DA DA DA NANANA!!!!!!!!

"If You want to Fight for Ten minutes you Gotta Train for Ten Thousand Minutes!!!!"