Before the wishes begin, I should tell you that it’s not actually my birthday. That’s a few weeks away.
But my birthday present arrived yesterday…so Happy Birthday to Me!!!
I postponed yesteday’s 11 mile run until today so that I could test out my new gadget. But instead of setting it up last night and this morning, I spent that time playing with Cooper. Yesterday, I subbed in a cross training bike ride. Since I haven’t rode too many miles this summer, I was looking for a long ride.
I rode for almost 2 hours and logged 22 miles, quite possibly my longest ride of the summer.
This morning, I finally left Cooper to open my box. We’ve got Cooper all set up in our second bedroom as he gets used to us before we give him free rein of the house…which never seemed big until I thought about it from his point of view. We are trying to spend as much time in there with him, which makes other things, like laundry and opening self ordered birthday presents tough.
Right before my run I tried on my watch and got set up with the basic settings.
It took sooo long to locate satellites that I had almost given up when it finally started working. With my new watch, compression socks, and water pack, I looked official even if my legs felt tired after yesterday’s long ride. My new watch was amazing! At mile one, I knew my pace and it beeped and vibrated to cheer me on. Note: for time’s sake, I have not set up the heart rate monitor part yet. Just after mile 3, my watch beeped again. Confused, I looked down to read a ‘low battery’ warning. I guess I was supposed to charge the watch first. I wasn’t sure how much time I had left…was it like the idiot light on my car that would still last the rest of my journey? Nope…I had about 3 more minutes and my watch was dead. Luckily, it was an easy route and I wasn’t counting on the watch for distance (1 mile to path + 9 mile path + 1 mile home = 11 miles). It was also a hot route, but I hit my stride and walked in the door to Cooper meowing from upstairs.
I meant to stretch, but instead spent most of my afternoon snuggling with kitten (and taking tons of pictures) before running out to do some errands.
Right now…I am feeling as exhausted as our sleeping kitten, so I am off to bed!
See you tomorrow!
Weekly Mileage
Running: 23 miles
Biking: 47 miles
Happy early birthday! Great gift! Cooper is adorable!
Thx! I love getting packages in the mail filled with bday fun!
Yay! It arrived! So excited for you! You’re gonna love it. Definitely locate the satellites outside… it’s much faster 🙂 (I owe you an email, by the way!)
Happy {early} birthday!
Happy early birthday!! Mine was Wednesday 🙂 yay August birthdays!
Yay! I love August Birthdays!
Hope you enjoyed your day!
Happy Birthday in case I forget to tell you on that day! Love the last picture of kitty sleeping!
Thank you! I’m getting to the age where I am trying to forget : ) Cooper is just soo sweet when he sleeps!
Haha well eventually you will be so old you can’t remember! I would snuggle that kitty constantly!
I seriously almost called in sick to work today to cuddle with him. I think he will grow soo fast! Some days I think my memory is already starting to go…ha ha!!!
Hahahaha! I would probably do the same thing! Especially if I worked while Quinn was growing.
Enjoy your new watch! so fun!! That is the Garmin I have and it can do a lot!! What I like to do is start it and set it either on my porch. It finds the satellite pretty quick that way. Also you can save your area too! (I don’t know how to do that but it is possible!) 🙂
Awesome!!!
I have a lot of reading to do so that I can use it for more stuff but I am loving it so far!
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