I like to disco.

" No clubbing means NO CLUBBING the night before! Get a good night sleep and be ready to go." This is what Matt emailed me today about our 20 mile run this weekend. I really want to do well in NY and Matt has graciously decided to help me reach my goal, but sometimes reality can be harsh. I'm willing to do what needs to be done, GULP.

Monday was a much needed break for my legs and Sara and I headed to the Lake to join the Hippie Hollow group. We had a thunderstorm that blew through Austin on Monday and that seemed to clear out the regulars so when we got to Hippie Hollow it was mostly ours. The water level at the lake is pretty low so we had to hike down a bit to get to the water in our normal cove and then there was a lot of glass. Jimmy cut his foot on a clear piece as he was looking out for green and brown versus clear so he decided to sit this swim out. I dove into the water and it was the perfect temp! It seems the rains had cooled things off a bit and the water was calm and cool. It felt like I was ice skating versus swimming as I made my way to the Windy Point tree we target. On my way, this guy with those double fins like a dolphin tail flew by me. He said he was wearing them to loosen up his ankles. If I had them on it would be all I could do to not dive down and then dolphin kick my hardest to propel myself up and out of the water, but that's just me. This was the last HH group swim of the year as after Labor Day the park closes at 6 PM sadly. I guess we can still go on weekends, but it's always nice to get away during the week. We watched the sunset and headed back home.

Tuesday Matt had a track workout for us to do, which is where I think I can make the most improvement. It's no secret that I'm not the fastest runner, but I want that to change or at least I want to be the fastest runner I can be. The run went well although Matt thought I could have run the fast laps faster and the slow laps slower. I'll try and adjust for next time.

Wednesday was ~6 miles of my regular run to shoal creek. I'm not sure if it was the track workout the night before or? but I knocked off a couple of minutes from the amount of time it usually takes me.

This morning was happy fun run day as I told KB and I gave her several different options as to routes we could run and made her choose. She chose the capitol run route and we ran for a little under an hour thumbing our noses at the people running on treadmills in the gym, smelling bacon the whole run, running through construction zones, looking at the capitol annex, and talking the whole time. Now that is a good start to the day.