Second blog of the day????

Maddie at her favorite park (we went this morning)

I know, this is crazy. 2 posts in one day. I just got back from my longest run (duration) ever! I thought that was worthy of a post.

Matt and I went down to the towpath. Why I thought the towpath surface would be good for running today, I'll never know!. We did our long runs down there last Sunday in the rain. It was muddy and wet... and awesome (probably my most enjoyable run ever). So today it was 9 degrees out. It has snowed about 4 inches in the past few days... Does it sound to you like the gravel towpath would be smooth running today? Yeah, not so much. I ran for 2 hours on snow covered ice. It was a crazy workout for the legs- my ankles and hips are screaming! It took so much extra muscle to stabilize my legs on the uneven surface- not to mention trying to keep from falling on my ass.

Matt and I travel down there together but run separately (he's faster than me). Right when I started I realized that this wouldn't be a great "run". So I decided to consider it an endurance challenge. A day to prime the aerobic engine. It was quite an adventure. I saw a bunch of people skiing on the path and it brought back some great memories from when I was younger...

I am very close with my parents. My Dad and I are very similar- love to exercise, same disposition (type B), both into research and science. Every February we would go away for the weekend with 2 of his buddies and their daughters to have a father-daughter X-country skiing weekend. One of his friends owns a cabin that is associated with a resort. It's right on a lake and the cabin had this little lighthouse room with a great view of the area. It was so awesome. Northern Wisconsin is always really cold in February. We would go out skiing all day- when we finished our hair would be frozen solid, snot frozen to our cheeks, and we would all be exhausted and sweaty. To warm up we would head over to the resort to spend an hour going from the pool to the sauna to the hot tub. Then it was back to the cabin for hot chocolate and games. I really miss that. Anyway... my run today made me think of our weekends. Maybe I'll ask my dad if we can do that again now that us girls are grown up. It would be a blast. I miss X-country skiing!

I digress... The playlist on my Mp3 player was wonderful, so I thought I would share:

I see you, you see me..............................Magic Numbers
You're Beautiful........................................James Blunt

Late............................................................Ben Folds

What am I to you?...................................Norah Jones

Seombody that I used to know..............Elliott Smith

The Luckiest.............................................Ben Folds

Goodbye my lover....................................James Blunt

Sleep to Dream..........................................Fiona Apple

Northern Sky............................................Nick Drake

Gracie.........................................................Ben Folds

Just Like Heaven......................................The Cure

Through the dark......................................KT Tunstall

Young Pilgrims...........................................The Shins

Life for Rent................................................Dido

Crash into Me.............................................Dave Matthews Band

Thank You..................................................Dido

Brick.............................................................Ben Folds Five

Criminal........................................................Fiona Apple

Pink Moon....................................................Nick Drake

Somewhere over the Rainbow..................Isreal Kamamawiwo

Forgiven.......................................................Alanis Morissette

White Flag....................................................Dido

Stupidity Tries.............................................Elliott Smith

One of Those Things First.........................Nick Drake

Don't think Twice it's Allright....................Bob Dylan

Humble Me...................................................Norah Jones

Be Here to Love Me....................................Norah Jones

If I had a Million Dollars.............................Barenaked Ladies

#41.................................................................Dave Matthews Band

Ballad of Big Nothing...................................Elliott Smith

Have a nice week!