July Come and Gone...almost

It's almost the end of the month of July, and as we get ready to head into August, I start to think about how the summer is almost gone. We'll have a couple more months of good warm weather here, but with the end of August starts the college football season, the Broncos reported to camp yesterday, meaning the first exhibition game of the season isn't too far behind, these mean the ushering in of fall.

Work has been busy this summer. We are having the biggest month we have had since I rejoined my company, I am happy to say that Jaz's surgery about 10 days ago was a success and that she is doing well, she will return to swimming tomorrow, and has really started to slim down. Her mammory glands have started to shrink just a little, I really need to get her weighed, I may do that one night this week if I can sneak off to the vets at some point. She's a little less obidient right now as she has began to feel better for the first time in months, and I couldn't be happier with her progress.

Marathon training has been a little up and down, a lot of that is my fault, as I think I had been over cross training a little, thus leaving my legs a little tired to really give everything I can to my Chicago workouts. As I have really quieted the other stuff besides running down, the last two really hard workouts for me have gone very well. My 40 minute tempo run on Thursday, and my 8 miles at MP (the MP workouts have been the toughest on me so far) today were both the best workouts I've had so far. I remember preparing for the Flying Pig...er Colorado Marathon, that when I had a LR on Sunday, I used to go easy on Saturdays. This plan has me doing that MP run today, then backing it up with a 16 miler tomorrow. Plus afterwards I get to help my roommate move a bunch of stuff. Fun filled day for me tomorrow. I'm fried right now and I have to get up and pound out 16 in less than 9 hours. LR's never bother me though, probably because they are slower pace, I've always joked that I could run 8 minute miles all day long, it's when they need to be in the 7's and 6's...

Besides that stuff, life is the same as always. Biggest change for me right now is that I put the camper shell back on my truck today, it'll be better for Jaz when she needs to be in the pickup for any stretch of time.