the hills kicked my butt!

we got in too late last night to safely go for a run... instead, i donned the rubber gloves and attacked the in-laws fridge. they've been away for a few weeks, and it was full of mold and slime and swamp and nasty....


so this morning we had a quick smoothie of bananas and blueberry Kefir (which i am totally addicted to!) and headed out for a run together. my sweetheart headed home halfway through my run, and i logged 6.8 miles (we measured with the truck last night). a little over four miles of that was hills... and by mile five and a half, my legs were like jelly!


arrived back home a sweaty mess -- hard to believe i'm running in t-shirt and shorts at the end of December -- only to be greeted by a post-run endorphin happy sweetheart who had made me a delicious breakfast of bacon and eggs (he's big on the post-workout protein infusion!). his folks called, they arrived safely from Colombia late last night, and will be home early this afternoon.

looks like i will be staying here to help out for a while, so i'm glad to know that i've got a good route all measure out, and by the time i get home myself, those hills will have whipped me into shape!