07/01/2019 - 07/07/2019
Another week of feeling good! I'm still nervous about the hip, but I'm pain free. I wanted to get outside to run, but it was hella hot and humid again and just too gross.
Monday - We were going between extremely excited and extremely nauseous over making an offer on the house. It needs so much updating and the smaller of the pastures floods every time it rains so we need to install a swale. We were on pins and needles all day, but the sellers accepted our offer! If all goes well we should be closing on July 30th.
- Running
- Plan: 4mi @ EA 11:47
- Actual: 4mi @ 11:47
- Splits: 11:45, 11:46, 11:50, 11:46
- Strength
Tuesday - We scheduled the house inspection for the following Monday. That's the soonest we could get our preferred company out there. I needed to get some measurements so I could loosely come up with a kitchen design for our general contractor & architect so we met our realtor at the house in the evening. The seller had let the previous buyer keep his two horses on the property before closing. They were both supposed to be picked up over the weekend and moved to a new barn. Well, one was picked up and the other one was still there in a DISGUSTING stall with no food or water. He was so filthy, dehydrated, skinny.....and a stallion. He was also left in the stall with his halter on which you never want to do because it leaves them at risk of strangulation or suffocation. Because he is an unfamiliar stallion there was no way we were getting in there with him to muck out his stall. Stallions can be dangerous because they are not fixed and have tempers. We filled up his water, found a bag of feed and gave him some hay. I can't even begin to describe how angry we were about this horse's condition. It was heartbreaking. Our realtor grew up on a horse ranch in North Carolina so he knows his stuff and was just as angry as we were. He sent a message to the seller's agent.
- Running
- Plan: 4mi @ EB 11:00
- Actual: 4mi @ 11:04
- Splits: 11:17, 11:02, 11:01, 10:55
- Strength
Wednesday - The seller's agent said that the horse should not be there and he's not sure what's going on and would get back to us. In the meantime, we went out there in the morning to feed and water the horse. My daughter had a riding lesson in the morning so I talked to her instructor about the horse. She put out some feelers and the horse tack & feed shop that we go to knew the seller and called him. Apparently the seller let the former buyer keep the horse there until he could find a new barn because it is very hard to place a stallion. He never let his agent know! The seller said that he was told that the former buyer would going out there three times a day to care for the horse. That obviously wasn't happening. We went back to the house around lunch time and nobody had been out there. No food and no water again. It was supposed to be almost 112 degrees with the heat index so Rob turned on the stall fan to try and keep the horse cool. So basically my whole day was shot because of an absent horse owner and I wasn't going to be able to run. It was Nick's 16th birthday today and I still had to pick up his cake and a last minute present plus I had an appointment with the dermatologist. PSA!!!! WEAR YOUR SUNSCREEN!!!! I am religious about applying sunscreen, but I had what I thought was a pimple right at my hairline on my forehead that wasn't going away after a month. She said she believes it is basal cell carcinoma so she removed it and will call me with the results. She did a full skin check and other than one spot on my forehead I'm good! If you are going to get skin cancer this is the one to get because it is the least dangerous. We went to Kobe Steakhouse for Nick's birthday dinner then celebrated at home with an ice cream cake and presents. 16 is a big milestone, but he's not one for grand celebrations. He prefers a low key day with dinner and cake. It was also my brother's 34th birthday.
- Running
- Plan: 2mi WU + 2 x 1mi @ T 9:07 w/ 2min RI + 1 mi CD
- Actual: nothing
- Strength
Thursday - Happy 4th of July! We checked on the horse and it appeared someone had been there. Having the pics of your malnourished horse all over Facebook seems to help. We went to our neighbor's house for a get together and brought ribs that Rob smoked all afternoon and a corn casserole (it ain't a Southern gathering without it). Our neighborhood lit off fireworks which we could sort of see from our house. I just didn't feel like walking to the park for a better view LOL!!!
Friday - Rob and I skipped the gym today. He was hurting pretty bad from the previous day's workout and I was just lazy. He had to work, but it was a fairly slow day since there were so many people on vacation. Rob checked on the horse while I brought Eliana to see her horse. Someone removed the fan from the stall. It was nowhere to be found. ***. Later that afternoon we went shopping for flooring. I think I have something picked out. Spoke with our general contractor and he is meeting me at the house on Monday to do an initial walk through. It's a huge project with so many components that we decided we needed someone else to handle the details for us.
I fell in love with this bathtub and decorative wall tile, but it's just not in our budget. One can dream though.
- Running
- Plan: 4mi @ EB 11:00 plus strides in the last mile
- Actual: 4mi @ 10:43
- Splits: 11:02, 10:57, 11:01, 9:54
- Strength: skipped
Saturday - Shopped around for appliances. We are pretty happy with the Kitchenaid appliances we have in our current home and after shopping we think we will just stick with what we know. Must haves for the new house is a 36 inch cooktop and two ovens. Our current house came with a 36 inch cooktop and I love it. I only have a single oven right now and really miss having two. I cook and bake a lot so it's very handy to have two ovens. We needed a couple things for our horse so we stopped in at the feed store. We talked with the store owner about the poor horse and it's really sad. The former buyer speaks very little English and has zero horse experience. She has no idea where he got them, but he didn't even know what or how much to feed them! It's such a sad situation for that horse. Unfortunately our hands are tied because we don't own the property yet.
- Running
- Plan: 6mi @ LR 10:43
- Actual: 6mi @ 10:41
- Splits: 10:42, 10:37, 10:47, 10:45, 10:39, 10:39
Sunday - I was up at 4am to see Rob and Eliana off. They were flying to Maine. Rob was very uncomfortable about letting Eliana fly solo even though it was a nonstop flight. They flew Frontier which has a special program for unaccompanied minors (for a fee) which allowed for an adult to go to the gate for departure and to the gate for arrival, but he wasn't having it. He will stay there for a week then fly home. She is going to stay an additional week then fly back with her 17yo cousin. She was very worried about her horse for the next two weeks so I went to the barn and sent her a few photos after I groomed her and got her looking pretty.
Upcoming
I'm really not sure. I'm feeling lost without a formal plan. I have a plan from January that I really didn't get to put to any use. I need to print it out and see if it's something I can tackle or just start from scratch. I thought I had settled on a half in October, but that 10 miler in Chicago with post race deep dish pizza keeps calling my name. What to do, what to do.....