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[MinnieM123]

Funny how driving tests always seem to come with interesting stories. I had to take mine in my grandmother's car because none of our vehicles met the state's guidelines for suitable vehicles for a test even though they were perfectly legal. So, I was already uncomfortable. My parallel parking was a disaster and I started bawling. Thankfully, we were allowed to fail one element and still pass, but the exam conductor informed me that in his decades in this job, I was the first person to ever cry. He then followed that by saying it was his last day and he'd be retiring. So, unless something crazy happened after me (and it was already pretty late in the afternoon), I'd be the only person to ever cry during one of his tests. To this day, I find that very hard to believe.

Hee hee . . . to this day, I can NOT parallel park!!!

 

[HouCuseChickie]

I love Halloween decorating, too. I'm sure it looks great, even though you feel it's not cohesive. I think you're right about others not caring about cohesion in a Halloween display. It's meant to be fun and scary! You should show us a photo, if you feel comfortable enough. (I understand if you don't.)

I have to get the photos uploaded, but I'll gladly share. It's not nearly as over the top as some people I know, but you can see it from the ends of the block. If I get energetic, I may have it posted later this evening.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

Hee hee . . . to this day, I can NOT parallel park!!!

Neither can I! If I'm driving and we wind up someplace that requires it, I have to put in park and get my husband behind the wheel.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Hee hee . . . to this day, I can NOT parallel park!!!

I can. It was on the driving test for Maryland. With a backup camera, I have no problem. Not that I often have to do it, but I can if it comes up.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

So, here's the Halloween display. I'm going to borrow a few of the night pics from last year since I took those with the good camera and they look much better. My phone takes awful night pics.

By day...

By night...

(last year's pic)

The video is not good and I can't find last year's vid, but this is the raining blood in motion...



So, here's the story...and the backstory...

Our display at our old house was a pet cemetery. I had a big graveyard with a massive cat with an animated head, breaking free from his grave. It had a busted fence, smoke machine, ghosts flying in the trees, webs, etc. Well, during the last Halloween season in that house, "kitty" died. So, we knew we'd need to start from scratch when we moved. The kids wanted to keep with our old theme and just expand on it, but I had this crazy idea of Halloween at Sea.

So, we have a sea serpent chasing down a Viking ship because he's in love with the ship...thinking it's another sea serpent. The lights beneath them are mainly red, but there are a couple of purple and orange strands mixed in there as well. I've always said it's the Dead River flowing into the Halloween Sea...and the red projector on the house is it raining blood. It never photographs or videos well, but above the inflatables is a projection of swirling ghosts. I have no place to really project them so you can see the ghosts, so I point it at the trees so it looks like swirling storm clouds above the inflatables, to signify rough seas ahead. I would love to add a nasty looking octopus to the mix, but I have yet to find one. Last year, I tried to add squid kites with remote disc lights to achieve this look...but they were too brightly colored and just looked silly. So, I trashed them...but they did inspire the ghosts for this year.

I'm OK with the new ghosts in the yard and porch since there can be ghosts in my Halloween at sea, but the webs and mini jack-o-lanterns were just me trying to add some striking decorations to an area that I know stands out well (these are usually full of lights at Christmas). The mini jack-o-lanterns were actually supposed to go along the top of the gate, but they were more mini than I anticipated. I even bought little LED tea lights to go in them, but they're also too small for those. So, I just hung them in the shrubs with the webbing. The tea lights won't go to waste. It's too early here to carve pumpkins, but when we do...we have strobes, standard flicker candles, light up LED eyes...and now a whole lot of color shifting tea lights. In Nov, I may even invest in some plastic ones for next year so I can put them out earlier in the season.

Oh, and there are those ghost and orange bulb stake lights in the corner of the yard. Those really don't fit, but my husband always gets worried about kids cutting through our lawn to trick or treat. The inflatables have a series of tethers staked into the ground which are impossible to see at night. He wants me to do full blown fencing with caution tape, but I don't like that idea...so, I just tried to come up with something to guide them towards our driveway. This pic was before I added those lights and moved the rest of the sea/river closer to the curb, but you can see how I've started to shift the lights in hopes that seeing the lights will say "don't walk on the lawn."

So, that's it...about 2.5-3 hrs of yard decorating work. I normally put it up on the 1st, so I was feeling really behind. It also bugs me because that's less time to enjoy it...making it harder to justify the time spent doing it all. Then again, Halloween takes a fraction of the time I spend setting up he Christmas decor. Plus, if you could see some of my neighbors' yards, this would look like nothing. Oh well... still fun.

 

[Sans Souci]

Funny how driving tests always seem to come with interesting stories. I had to take mine in my grandmother's car because none of our vehicles met the state's guidelines for suitable vehicles for a test even though they were perfectly legal. So, I was already uncomfortable. My parallel parking was a disaster and I started bawling. Thankfully, we were allowed to fail one element and still pass, but the exam conductor informed me that in his decades in this job, I was the first person to ever cry. He then followed that by saying it was his last day and he'd be retiring. So, unless something crazy happened after me (and it was already pretty late in the afternoon), I'd be the only person to ever cry during one of his tests. To this day, I find that very hard to believe.

Yeah, I don't believe him, either. This guy's job was to take people out for driving exams and probably most of them are teens. You mean to tell me nobody else cried, especially if they failed. I'm not buying what he was selling and to tell on his very last day of work you were the only person to have cried during an exam throughout his career is just mean-spirited.

 

[Sans Souci]

So, here's the Halloween display. I'm going to borrow a few of the night pics from last year since I took those with the good camera and they look much better. My phone takes awful night pics.

By day...

By night...

(last year's pic)

The video is not good and I can't find last year's vid, but this is the raining blood in motion...



So, here's the story...and the backstory...

Our display at our old house was a pet cemetery. I had a big graveyard with a massive cat with an animated head, breaking free from his grave. It had a busted fence, smoke machine, ghosts flying in the trees, webs, etc. Well, during the last Halloween season in that house, "kitty" died. So, we knew we'd need to start from scratch when we moved. The kids wanted to keep with our old theme and just expand on it, but I had this crazy idea of Halloween at Sea.

So, we have a sea serpent chasing down a Viking ship because he's in love with the ship...thinking it's another sea serpent. The lights beneath them are mainly red, but there are a couple of purple and orange strands mixed in there as well. I've always said it's the Dead River flowing into the Halloween Sea...and the red projector on the house is it raining blood. It never photographs or videos well, but above the inflatables is a projection of swirling ghosts. I have no place to really project them so you can see the ghosts, so I point it at the trees so it looks like swirling storm clouds above the inflatables, to signify rough seas ahead. I would love to add a nasty looking octopus to the mix, but I have yet to find one. Last year, I tried to add squid kites with remote disc lights to achieve this look...but they were too brightly colored and just looked silly. So, I trashed them...but they did inspire the ghosts for this year.

I'm OK with the new ghosts in the yard and porch since there can be ghosts in my Halloween at sea, but the webs and mini jack-o-lanterns were just me trying to add some striking decorations to an area that I know stands out well (these are usually full of lights at Christmas). The mini jack-o-lanterns were actually supposed to go along the top of the gate, but they were more mini than I anticipated. I even bought little LED tea lights to go in them, but they're also too small for those. So, I just hung them in the shrubs with the webbing. The tea lights won't go to waste. It's too early here to carve pumpkins, but when we do...we have strobes, standard flicker candles, light up LED eyes...and now a whole lot of color shifting tea lights. In Nov, I may even invest in some plastic ones for next year so I can put them out earlier in the season.

Oh, and there are those ghost and orange bulb stake lights in the corner of the yard. Those really don't fit, but my husband always gets worried about kids cutting through our lawn to trick or treat. The inflatables have a series of tethers staked into the ground which are impossible to see at night. He wants me to do full blown fencing with caution tape, but I don't like that idea...so, I just tried to come up with something to guide them towards our driveway. This pic was before I added those lights and moved the rest of the sea/river closer to the curb, but you can see how I've started to shift the lights in hopes that seeing the lights will say "don't walk on the lawn."

So, that's it...about 2.5-3 hrs of yard decorating work. I normally put it up on the 1st, so I was feeling really behind. It also bugs me because that's less time to enjoy it...making it harder to justify the time spent doing it all. Then again, Halloween takes a fraction of the time I spend setting up he Christmas decor. Plus, if you could see some of my neighbors' yards, this would look like nothing. Oh well... still fun.

This really cute and creative. FWIW, I think your decos are cohesive. It think it really comes alive at night. I love that Dead River. Those little ghostie lights on the stakes are adorable.

 

[Sans Souci]

Hello-

Today was a torturous lower body workout. There was a "buy in" of 100 kettlebell swings. I used my 30 lb. 'bell and it wasn't too bad then, there was this hellish circuit I had to do 3X. My legs were toast by the third round. But then, there was a "buy out" of 100 more swings. I did those in groups of 10 and it took forever! My hands were so sweaty and my fingers were cramping up. I did a long, luxurious 15 minute stretch routine at the end. It was close to an hour when all was said and done. The circuit itself was 15 minutes, but the warm up, the kettlebell swings and stretch added time. (Plus I was having streaming issues.) You're supposed to time yourself in during the circuit, but I forgot to set the stopwatch function on my phone. So I made up a time.

My son didn't pass his test yesterday. My husband took him and said the examiner was very nice. The examiner said his driving was fine. He failed because he couldn't parallel park. He failed the first attempt and then on the second attempt, he hit the curb. He was a little deflated when he came home, but he bounced back. He's going to try again in a month. We know what the weak point is, now we just need to shore it up. The examiner said my son was very nervous during the exam. This is the problem my husband was having with him. He would get so anxious, he'd break out in the splotches that itched and they'd have to pull over to let him settle down a bit.

I'd forgotten this, but my husband failed his driving exam, too. I was puzzled b/c he had been driving in the UK for 10+ years before he settled here. He failed because he didn't use his directional before parallel parking or whatever you're supposed to do.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

This really cute and creative. FWIW, I think your decos are cohesive. It think it really comes alive at night. I love that Dead River. Those little ghostie lights on the stakes are adorable.

Thanks! At the end of the day, it just makes me happy to see it all out there. The town actually does a decorating competition, but the ones that usually win are crazy over the top things. I like the stake lights a lot. I had found another set that were growling zombie heads, but they really didn't fit and I didn't want to hear zombies being set off all the time by ever little sound in the neighborhood.

 

[Sans Souci]

Good morning

I did a very sweaty "15 minute fat burn" workout today with a 15 minute stretch. It was 45 seconds of work and 15 seconds of rest for 15 minutes! LOL My weight is up a couple of pounds, but I've been eating (and making) a lot of bread this week. I think it's water retention, because I stayed within my Weight Watchers points, but I ate a lot of those points as bread. I always retain water when I eat a lot of carbs. Ugh. It's just difficult, because I really crave carbs this time of year. It seems like it peaks in October and once the we change the clocks, I go back to normal. I know it's part of having SAD and I try to roll with it. I kind of want to bump up my light box time from 45 minutes to 60, but I'm almost over the hump here and I'm reluctant to spend an hour in front of it.

My husband is off, so we're going out for a walk today.

@HouCuseChickie I looked up Nuun and I decided to order some. I have resumed a shameful Crystal Light habit that I'd ditched at the beginning of the year and this might be a better option. I know I probably don't need it because my workouts tend to be short (and sweaty), but I though they might be good to have pre-workout b/c of the caffeine. I usually drink coffee when I get up, but I am willing to try something new. I looked at the Nuun website and with shipping, it was going to $19 for 2 tubes. I went to Amazon and found 4 tubes for $22. They're arriving today.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

Good morning

I did a very sweaty "15 minute fat burn" workout today with a 15 minute stretch. It was 45 seconds of work and 15 seconds of rest for 15 minutes! LOL My weight is up a couple of pounds, but I've been eating (and making) a lot of bread this week. I think it's water retention, because I stayed within my Weight Watchers points, but I ate a lot of those points as bread. I always retain water when I eat a lot of carbs. Ugh. It's just difficult, because I really crave carbs this time of year. It seems like it peaks in October and once the we change the clocks, I go back to normal. I know it's part of having SAD and I try to roll with it. I kind of want to bump up my light box time from 45 minutes to 60, but I'm almost over the hump here and I'm reluctant to spend an hour in front of it.

My husband is off, so we're going out for a walk today.

@HouCuseChickie I looked up Nuun and I decided to order some. I have resumed a shameful Crystal Light habit that I'd ditched at the beginning of the year and this might be a better option. I know I probably don't need it because my workouts tend to be short (and sweaty), but I though they might be good to have pre-workout b/c of the caffeine. I usually drink coffee when I get up, but I am willing to try something new. I looked at the Nuun website and with shipping, it was going to $19 for 2 tubes. I went to Amazon and found 4 tubes for $22. They're arriving today.

I think it's just the time of year...not that saying that makes it any better, but I just keep saying...less than a month until we fall back. Just gotta do what works for each of us to get by. I found myself watching the Great Pumpkin the other night just to improve my frame of mind...Charlie Brown therapy!

I'm drinking Nuun right now...ginger lemonade!



I really need to go back to ordering mine from Amazon. It's cheaper that way and there's a lot more flavor and line variety. I've been testing flavors and varieties that my supermarket keeps in stock just because it's convenient. They are something like $5.79 a container at the market, so it's cheaper than Target and close enough to Amazon pricing that I don't feel fleeced. I had started out with the Sport+ varieties, but I'm really enjoying the hydration/vitamins line (OK, that's all the market has been stocking)....both the energy (caffeinated) and non-energy varieties (loving grapefruit orange!). I don't drink coffee, I'm trying to boost my hydration and I'm trying to kick my diet soda habit, so I'm trying to use Nuun in its place. I had stopped using it for a bit so I could test another hydration/fueling product, but that stuff made me too jittery and was just way too salty. So, back to Nuun! I'll be curious to see what you think of it and what flavors you end up liking.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

Happy Friday!!!

Work is still stressful, but I'm starting to see a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel. The worst of it is still ahead of me, but I can see the path clearing for my worst part of this process. Sounds awful, but it's much easier to focus on the biggest challenges when the others are done and out of the way.

So, I ran last night. It was mid 80s and extremely humid, which made it a struggle. What's funny is that my pace was 30-45 seconds faster than it usually is when I feel like I'm having an awful run. So, something good is still going on. I'm going to attribute this to focusing on nutrition again and changing back to Nuun for hydration. I've been playing with run nutrition as well since giving up on Tailwind. I had seen some vlogs talking about fat fueling and saw that several people were using these specialty nut butter packs. I looked at the ingredients, and most them included things like egg whites and dates...which I'd previously found to be good for me. So, while DD13 is allergic and I have to maintain super safe storage and cleaning processes, I bought some natural peanut butter and have been adding into the mix over the last week. So, next step is to test the little packets...since I'll need something clean and portable for my long runs coming up soon.

Beyond that, I got in my workout this morning...15.50 mi on the bike, barre style leg work along with some hamstring and calf stretches, and of course...abs. I was running late and running out of energy, so I only planked for 30 seconds, but I can always plank more through the day. Speaking of today...we are supposed to be getting our first real cold front today. I can already hear the thunder starting to rumble. We hit low 90s yesterday and it's currently 83 outside right now with 95% humidity, but we will be dropping into the low 50s tonight and maybe as low as upper 40s by tomorrow morning. I'm dreading sitting in it for softball tonight and tomorrow morning, but I cannot wait for my long run tomorrow! I am so sick of the heat and humidity, but I also want to see what I can do with more ideal running temps.

 

[Sans Souci]

I think it's just the time of year...not that saying that makes it any better, but I just keep saying...less than a month until we fall back. Just gotta do what works for each of us to get by. I found myself watching the Great Pumpkin the other night just to improve my frame of mind...Charlie Brown therapy!

I'm drinking Nuun right now...ginger lemonade!

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I really need to go back to ordering mine from Amazon. It's cheaper that way and there's a lot more flavor and line variety. I've been testing flavors and varieties that my supermarket keeps in stock just because it's convenient. They are something like $5.79 a container at the market, so it's cheaper than Target and close enough to Amazon pricing that I don't feel fleeced. I had started out with the Sport+ varieties, but I'm really enjoying the hydration/vitamins line (OK, that's all the market has been stocking)....both the energy (caffeinated) and non-energy varieties (loving grapefruit orange!). I don't drink coffee, I'm trying to boost my hydration and I'm trying to kick my diet soda habit, so I'm trying to use Nuun in its place. I had stopped using it for a bit so I could test another hydration/fueling product, but that stuff made me too jittery and was just way too salty. So, back to Nuun! I'll be curious to see what you think of it and what flavors you end up liking.

So, far I have tried the Fresh Lime and I just had the Wild Berry post workout. I do like them, but I wish I'd gotten the Vitamins variety now. I don't need all of the sodium, since I'm not a long distance runner. But I will definitely use them when I have super sweaty workouts. When I burn through these, I want to get the Vitamins and the Rest varieties. I do like them, though. They're so much better than Powerade or Gatorade, which I find to be sickly sweet. I also associate them with recovering from the stomach flu.

 

[Sans Souci]

Good morning. ☀

Today was a lower body workout with kettlebells and a power band. It flew by, which is always a good thing in my book.

As I was sitting under my light box early this morning, I heard some sort of wildlife skirmish outside my window. I didn't think much of it because it's wooded where I live and I hear stuff like that all night. So, I went down stairs to workout and I usually use my mini trampoline to warm up. It's in the garage, but the previous owners' used it as part of their photography studio, so it's heated and has AC. It has laminate flooring and some carpeting, but they kept the garage door. We keep gym equipment down there. Anyway, I opened the door and holy guacamole, it was so wiffy. It hit me so hard. For a split second, I though someone had been smoking weed in there, but nobody here does that. Then I realized the noises I heard must have been a skunk who was being attacked. Anyway, it was not a fun warm up. LOL My car is on that side of the house, though, right where I heard the noise. So that's going to stink, literally.

 

[Sans Souci]

Good morning. ☀

Today was 50 kettlebell swings + a 25 minute power yoga video--basically a recovery day. No skunks involved today. I just finished the first week of this 12 week program. I'm not sure if I'll make it to the end, but for now, I like it. It's got a lot of variety in it, so I like that aspect. It's embarrassing, but the name of the program is, "Bikini Butt Lift Program." But, it uses different equipment, so it keeps me interested. I just needed a break from yoga for a bit. I didn't want to get to a point with yoga where I dreaded rolling out my mat in the mornings.

My husband wants to go walking at the shore today. I'm pretty sure they're having flooding b/c of Melissa, so I might push for the zoo or something else that's outdoors.

 

[Songbird76]

Oh, that is too bad. We love AK and can spend the whole day there just exploring and enjoying the shows and animals. Now, we have never been in the summer, only cooler months, so I have no idea what it is like in July, and with summer crowds.

I'm trying to catch up...this thread doesn't move nearly as fast as the Chit Chat thread. I had 300 pages to catch up on there....only 15 here. But yeah, we're basically done with AK. I have a trip report going. I'll have to post a link, but for those who don't want to take the time to read a whole TR, we had a mostly great trip. With AK, DD got heat exhaustion shortly after we arrived there, and we spent most of the day in Pizzafari trying to rehydrate her and cool her down and ended up having to take her to first aid when she said she was really cold and asked if she could put her sweatshirt on....she had a fever. Then there was an issue with fastpasses...we had FOP fastpasses, but my son just wanted to go back to the resort, my daughter was in tears thinking it was her fault no one was having fun, my husband was frustrated and didn't want to be there, so he took A back to the resort and I tried to cancel their fastpasses to free them up for someone else. Only I didn't know how, so I asked for help and the CM deleted MY fastpass and E's instead of my husband's and A's. So then we had to get a guest service person to get them back for us, but when we went to use them, FOP was down, and they were hoping it would be back up later, but later was a special event for which we had no tickets, so we couldn't use the fastpass anymore. It was just one thing after another, and A refuses to even set foot in AK again. We got Guest Services to give us fastpasses for another day, so we did get to ride FOP, but my poor brother didn't fit in the ride vehicle and had to be escorted out, embarrassed, and we got multi fastpasses for the inconvenience. And then the weather didn't cooperate...it was POURING with lighting strikes, so everything was shut down but the indoor shows and Navi River and FoP, so the standby lines shot up to several hours long...we left. It's not our park. Though E and my husband both LOVED FoP. A never got to ride it, but I don't think he'd have liked it...after riding it myself, I was glad A wasn't there, because I think he'd have been screaming. We'll stick to the other parks and I'll make fastpasses for FOP for E and M for future trips, and we'll skip AK other than their FOP fastpasses.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

So, far I have tried the Fresh Lime and I just had the Wild Berry post workout. I do like them, but I wish I'd gotten the Vitamins variety now. I don't need all of the sodium, since I'm not a long distance runner. But I will definitely use them when I have super sweaty workouts. When I burn through these, I want to get the Vitamins and the Rest varieties. I do like them, though. They're so much better than Powerade or Gatorade, which I find to be sickly sweet. I also associate them with recovering from the stomach flu.

Gatorade definitely evokes memories of stomach bugs. The sodium aspect is what's throwing me with all of these training powders and tabs. While it's not nearly as salty as Tailwind, the sport version of Nuun is still a bit too salty for my tastes. But then I see other runners saying they take salt tabs on top of all of this and it makes me wonder if I'm not getting enough. I'm still really torn with this because I find myself craving plain old water when I run with either one, but I run better when I stick with the salty stuff. I'll be curious to hear if the rest version ends up helping. It might make for a good later evening beverage.

 

[Sans Souci]

I'm trying to catch up...this thread doesn't move nearly as fast as the Chit Chat thread. I had 300 pages to catch up on there....only 15 here. But yeah, we're basically done with AK. I have a trip report going. I'll have to post a link, but for those who don't want to take the time to read a whole TR, we had a mostly great trip. With AK, DD got heat exhaustion shortly after we arrived there, and we spent most of the day in Pizzafari trying to rehydrate her and cool her down and ended up having to take her to first aid when she said she was really cold and asked if she could put her sweatshirt on....she had a fever. Then there was an issue with fastpasses...we had FOP fastpasses, but my son just wanted to go back to the resort, my daughter was in tears thinking it was her fault no one was having fun, my husband was frustrated and didn't want to be there, so he took A back to the resort and I tried to cancel their fastpasses to free them up for someone else. Only I didn't know how, so I asked for help and the CM deleted MY fastpass and E's instead of my husband's and A's. So then we had to get a guest service person to get them back for us, but when we went to use them, FOP was down, and they were hoping it would be back up later, but later was a special event for which we had no tickets, so we couldn't use the fastpass anymore. It was just one thing after another, and A refuses to even set foot in AK again. We got Guest Services to give us fastpasses for another day, so we did get to ride FOP, but my poor brother didn't fit in the ride vehicle and had to be escorted out, embarrassed, and we got multi fastpasses for the inconvenience. And then the weather didn't cooperate...it was POURING with lighting strikes, so everything was shut down but the indoor shows and Navi River and FoP, so the standby lines shot up to several hours long...we left. It's not our park. Though E and my husband both LOVED FoP. A never got to ride it, but I don't think he'd have liked it...after riding it myself, I was glad A wasn't there, because I think he'd have been screaming. We'll stick to the other parks and I'll make fastpasses for FOP for E and M for future trips, and we'll skip AK other than their FOP fastpasses.

I'm sorry you and your fam had a lousy time at AK. I enjoy AK, but it feels brutally humid to me in the summer, because of all the foliage. I had heat exhaustion a couple of years ago at WDW. We spent the morning at Epcot and went over to play mini golf in the afternoon. As we were playing, I starting feeling really ill. I finished the round, but had to cancel dinner plans at Epcot and call it a day. I felt chilly, too, even though it was mid-May. I just went back to my room, drank lots of Powerade and rested. I think being in the afternoon sun did me in. When you're at a park, you're in and out the sun and AC. The mini golf was just non-stop sun beating on me.

I don't blame you for not wanting to go back, though. It sounds like it was just glitch after another, which is not a fun to way to spend a vacation, especially when you've travelled so far.

 

[Sans Souci]

Gatorade definitely evokes memories of stomach bugs. The sodium aspect is what's throwing me with all of these training powders and tabs. While it's not nearly as salty as Tailwind, the sport version of Nuun is still a bit too salty for my tastes. But then I see other runners saying they take salt tabs on top of all of this and it makes me wonder if I'm not getting enough. I'm still really torn with this because I find myself craving plain old water when I run with either one, but I run better when I stick with the salty stuff. I'll be curious to hear if the rest version ends up helping. It might make for a good later evening beverage.

You know your body best. But you run in such high heat and humid conditions, so I could see why you might perform better when you drink more electrolytes. I think I'd be getting charley horses if I ran where you live!

 

[Sans Souci]

Hello-

Today was a lower body endurance (high reps ) workout. It was a little tedious, but it felt good when I was done with it.

We went to Ocean City yesterday and it was really busy. It was maybe high 60s and there were people lots of people in the water. It was cloudy and breezy, so I can't imagine how it felt to be in the water. Some were surfing and were wearing wet suits, but there were little kids out there, splashing away like it was mid-July out there. We just walked up and down the boardwalk and split an order of crab fries. I told myself I was only going to have a couple, but that didn't happen. So, today is a new day with an opportunity to make better choices.