Today’s unplanned run was powered before and after by Casey’s pizza. Probably not the best choice for before but then again I wasn’t shooting to run so far today. However, I was asked and well how could turn down running with a friend. 🏃🏻♂️
This was the post run pizza. 😁
Wet and rainy morning has lead to an early fire this afternoon. Pretty peaceful out in this little corner of the campground we now call “ours” for this year and maybe beyond.
Ummm… that is not what I wanted to happen Xfinity. Now it makes sense when I looked at my phone during the middle of my run and it said activation failed and I had no service 😒🤬
Just beautiful outside today. Blue skies, a breeze, and the temps sitting at around 60°F. Couldn’t pass this up on a Friday morning and am thankful that my schedule was wide open so I could run a little longer than planned. 🏃🏻♂️
Can’t believe this kid turned 13 today!! We have our first teenage in the house now. 😳
I really need him to stop growing though, he is almost taller than me and I see my time in keeping up with him in basketball slipping away.
New favorite cut through trail I found a couple weeks back. Each week at dance I try to get a faster time one this little segment. Not so much this week, I think it all comes down to the footwork around this washed out part. 😆
📸 Photoblogging - Day 31: Endurance
As much as I give this kid a hard time I applaud him for researching and finding a place to help him in basketball. Not only to work on skills but build some strength too. Not sure I can say I would have done that as a 7th grader 🤔
I appreciated the overcast morning. It was good to get back in the swing of things today after being gone all weekend.Tried to get a crown in one section but couldn’t give enough punch today. Come to find out wasn’t even my best time 😆.
📸 Photoblogging - Day 30: Fish
The best part about fishing at my in-laws is that they have a lot of fish in the pond. Helps keep the kids attention too 😁.
📸 Photoblogging - Day 29: Stripes
We put a couple decorations outside the RV this weekend 🇺🇸
📸 Photoblogging - Day 28: Fair
One of my favorite photos of the Iowa State Fair. In fact we have a canvas of it on our wall.
Grocery Shopping Run
I like how well the Apple AirPods just work with my iPhone. Only over the last year have I switched almost all of my personal devices back to Apple devices and today I was reminded why it just makes sense and it just works.
With the upcoming weekend, I had a block of time this morning that I could get a longer than normal done during the workday. Since we are camping this weekend I wasn’t sure what the long weekend would bring.
I only got about 1.5 miles into my run this morning when I got the text (that was conveniently spoken to me) from our Grocery shopper that they are going to start shopping for us. I am not sure why my wife put my number for them to contact but it probably works as I am in front of a computer most days and she is a teacher in front of kids. However, I was able to respond easily to the shopper on her questions about substitutions for the entire run. I never had to stop once to grab my phone out and respond and I was listening to a Podcast in between the times that she would ask me another question. It was honestly just so simple to listen to what she asked me and then say “reply” and respond with my answer. I exchanged 10 messages with her until she finally sent me the note saying she was done and I would get an email shortly. This was conveniently 1 mile before I was done and I was ok with the fact that all of this happened as I was doing something else. I didn’t have much else going on during that run but I would have been frustrated if I would have had to stop every mile and try to respond to her on my phone instead of just plugging away at the miles while texting her back.
Times when technology works the way it is intended (or maybe not intended) for me just blows my mind. Some people probably would not enjoy such a disruption as I had today but I didn’t mind it at all as I might have otherwise been stuck with groceries I didn’t want or ones I would have happily taken a replacement for but never responded to say so.
Just a beautiful day to be outside running. Blue skies and 61°F this morning. 🏃🏻♂️
📸 Photoblogging - Day 26: Schedule
Camping food schedule for the weekend 🚐
Needed this run today it has been a long week. Not to mention I felt much better running than I though I would have. 🏃🏻♂️
📸 Photoblogging - Day 25: Mountain
Beautiful mountains… I mean farmland as I am driving through Iowa today 🙃
📸 Photoblogging - Day 24: Intricate
Not sure why I always enjoy stained glass.
