In Friday's yoga class we did some pretty deep hip openers/stretches. They mostly felt great, and I know I need to work on that area, but I think I went too deep and/or held too long on one stretch - I could feel it a little more than I probably should have deep in my left ... well, the left side of my butt, right around where I think the IT band ( Read more... )

I was convinced we were about to experience an earthquake early this morning. Riley was being a total spaz from around 3:00 to 3:45 am, which is unlike him - he usually sleeps through the night very well. He kept pawing at the door but didn't want to go out and didn't want me to go back to bed. He seemed to just want us to stand there in the door ( Read more... )

They got another one!

It seems kind of unfair to list the squirrels as zero since the vast majority of them get away, but, still, the squirrels haven't actually taken down a dog. As far as we know.

If the top of it collides with your lip during a game of fetch, your lip will hurt a lot the next day.

I'm just sayin'.

I took last week off from running to rest my leg, which has been hurting since the 10K three weeks ago. In doing so I think I managed to miss the last nice week of running weather for the year (dry 50s and 60s, come back! I'm sorry I said I hated you!), and we started up again last night - with 80 degree temps and probably around 80 percent ( Read more... )

Riley is at the vet today for his checkup and vaccines. I always feel tense for the entire time he's there, afraid they'll find something terribly wrong with him or that he'll misbehave and I'll seem like the world's worst dog mom. It's bad enough that he needed a bath and a good brushing before he went, and I didn't get around to either. At least ( Read more... )

Riley and I took a short (2 miles), slow run through the neighborhood last night, my first since the 10K. The IT band is still a little twingey but definitely feels better than it did during the last couple of miles on Sunday. I'm going to keep the mileage very low for the next couple of weeks, and hopefully it'll be fine ( Read more... )

Pretty good run last night. I think the 10K will go OK once I'm not dealing with mad dogs and poop bags. (Actually Riley was really well-behaved.) 3 miles on Thursday, maybe yoga on Saturday ... then it's HERE! Yikes!

Riley and I had an awesome 3.1 mile run last night (I'd planned to do 3 miles but decided to be geeky and make it 5K). We did an out-and-back on Shoal Creek, from Hancock to Northeast Metro Park and back. I felt good from the beginning but managed not to go out too fast, and over all I felt pretty good all the way. I was starting to feel a bit ( Read more... )

My neighborhood is home to an insane number of possums. It makes for interesting nighttime runs and walks, since I generally try to walk or run straight forward and Riley tries to go in whatever direction the possums are going. The other morning he hit the jackpot, though ... we went outside right around sunrise and he found two possums hanging out ( Read more... )