Hello, My Dear Friends
Life is so great, it’s hard not to enjoy the beauty of what we are given every day.
The monkeys and I just got back from camping in Santa Fe. Had the ol’ man been there, we would have probably taken turns riding up the mountain.
Our main goal, stars, and sleeping in a tent.
The stars were amazing. The girls couldn’t believe how many stars are in the sky. I told them I have another amazing place in NM to show them the stars. Pecos near Cuba. The most amazing stars I have seen in my life!
It was a successful mission.
Non of our dogs have actually been camping before, and I have not been camping with my 3 dogs.
It was much easier than I thought it would be.
We haven’t done much camping since we’ve been in Nuevo de Mexico: when we got here, it was the fires, and then, it was the monsoons.
Unfortunately there’s another fire. I don’t know exactly where, it looks like it’s in the Jemez. We had to drive through the smoke on the way there, and back.
It was nice. When we woke up this morning we had long johns, AND fleece pants on. When we got back to ABQ it was over 80 degrees. Crazy, huh?
I love the weekends, it’s about hanging out, and having fun the the girls.
I get all my hard workouts in during the week.
Friday, as always was “Mom’s Friday Fun Day”. The monkeys think, that’s funny. I was at the trail head for 4 hours. I did 3 laps. A short lap, and 2 medium laps. It was close to 30 miles. I felt like I could go for another, headed up the hill, and then, turned around…
2 things, the toe had begun to hurt a little bit, and also, I had done my quota for the week in training.
I did not swim on Saturday, toe recovery.
I did nothing all week but walk and hike, recovery.
You know what, the toe feels great!
I’m going to resume my workouts with a brick tomorrow:
1.5 hour bike, ok maybe a little more…
Swimming.
I am jones’ing for swimming! I can’t wait to swim. I missed that so much last week. I couldn’t believe that I didn’t go. But pushing off the wall with force wasn’t on the training plan.