2022
Saturday morning breakfast of champions… 🧇🥓☕️
For all the complaining this kid does about Cross Country, he had a great mile time trial last night and shaved a min off his personal best split last year. Super proud of him for giving it his all and a strong finish to boot! 🏃🏻♂️
Probably wouldn’t have done this run if it weren’t for the fact I needed to pickup my car. It was a hot and humid one out there again today.
Finding a trail is always a plus even when it is near familiar paths. It was much warmer than I was thinking on this run but I had to get home from the auto repair shop somehow.
Glad to find some shade tunnels on this run. Not that it was all that hot but I meant to bring water along only to realize I forgot my water bottle at home on the steps 🤦♂️
We are again fostering another puppy as the last one we just said goodbye to Ewok on Friday to her forever home. So next fast forward to late last night and I guess we are on deck again with this Corgi named Wynter… 🐶
Found a new coffee last week that I am giving a go this morning from Northern Coffeeworks. I want to say it is too early to tell but based on the amount left in the coffee pot it seems like it is doing the trick for a Monday 😉☕
I have never seen this error on my watch before but seems fitting with that about of turns I had on my route yesterday.
Touring Waseca today as I tried to figure out how to fit in 17 miles in this town 😉. Biggest struggle was this wasn’t my weekend plan so I didn’t have a lot of water or any fuel. So I tried to find some parks that had water of which some did and some didn’t.
Found a new place to get some work done thanks to the Waseca-Le Sueur Regional Public Libray
With everything going on today I was glad to squeeze this run in. I was actually surprised the rain held off though it could have helped me cool down.
Fitting the clouds come in after my run and after I finished mowing. The run was needed to clear my head but man was it warm out there.
Another step in the right direction with Project Shed. After the successful test the past week I figured out with my new router and satellites to back haul a satellite from the shed to the house. Now we are all on one network again.
Random thoughts on documenting travels and trips
Most likely the last big trip for this year has wrapped up and I am again reminded that I was going to attempt to post/record more of what happened so I would have a record of it in the future to look back on. However, as it has been almost two weeks since we got back and I haven’t posted anything from my last trip (or the first trip for that matter) except running pictures it doesn’t seem like I am going to start a new trend.
As I was thinking about this today I think it all comes down to I want it in chronological order on my blog and on the same day it happened. Don’t know why but that is just how my brain works. I used to be pretty good a while back at doing that and posting some daily adventures on Instagram when we road tripped to Colorado. However, I have found that harder to do over the years since then and I think some of it also comes back to having the pictures readily available to post quickly that evening. For example on this past trip to Maine, I did take a good handful of photos on my phone and it would have been probably good enough to just post that to get something of the day documented. However, I brought along our good Cannon DSLR with all of the lenses and tried my best to use it and also carried it around during the days (except when running). So I knew there were probably good photos on that too as I used it to capture moments and didn’t rely on my phone. In addition, my wife had her phone as well and took some great in-the-moment photos that I would have wanted to post as well.
So I waited thinking maybe the next day I would get around to doing something…. and then as the days went on I did nothing.
I am back to the point of wondering if I should just post a daily log that I have kept about the things we did and the places we visited. Or post the daily log and include pictures as all of them are now mostly in one place (or I can get them from my wife’s Instagram account as she does a lot better job than I). Or keep doing what I have been and doing and do nothing.
Time will tell but I do feel like I want a record of the event as I like looking back and seeing what we did.
I know my part has been minimal in this puppy fostering adventure but she is really a good dog. I am enjoying the distractions during my busy days as it sometimes brings on walks with the family. 🐶
Enjoyed the view tonight as I ran across the small boardwalks. I probably shouldn’t have run through all the wooded areas as the last half of my run it dark out and I didn’t have lights. 🤷♂️ Glad the legs weren’t too beat up from yesterday.
A tail of two bridges over the Minnesota River Valley and old brewery remains that ended in the dark. Glad to get this run done with out feeling too horrible as normally this one millage is bad luck.
Finally a really nice night to just sit outside. I just wish we would have gotten here earlier so I would have a fire too. Hopefully, tomorrow 🤞
