May 16, 2009
· Filed under Gardening, Running
I’m thoroughly enjoying our backyard lately. Today I planted the tomato plants I bought a few weeks ago that have been “hardening off” on our back porch. I even bought tomato cages to help support them. I’m currently holding two betting pools regarding my tomato plants. 1) Will they survive? 2) Will they produce tomatoes?
We also bought a patio set for our backyard and a bistro set for our back porch. Plus, I found some annuals at the grocery store for $2 each and put them in some pots so now each table has a pretty flowering plant on top. It looks awesome. The pictures below give you an idea:
I also mowed the lawn again and finally figured out how to set up our sprinkler so that it actually waters our lawn and not the neighbors. Can’t wait to have a cookout now!
On a sadder note, I seem to have pulled my left hamstring so I have to take it easy this week with running.
May 10, 2009
· Filed under Life, Running
I am unofficially part of the Somerville Striders which means that most Thursday nights (when I’m not on call) I head over to run a race with them. I used to just run these races as a regular run but now that I’m training for a half, I’ve started treating them as tempo runs which works very well. This past Thursday I had an especially motivating tempo run because I was pushing my friend’s 10 month old who decided it was time to eat about 1 mile from the finish. His cries were a great reason to pick it up. As a result, I ended up running a 9:42 pace which was actually a little faster than my goal pace of 9:55. Excellent.
The evening got even better when Eddie and I decided that we should catch the new Star Trek movie. I thought it didn’t open until Friday but our local theatre started showing it Thursday night. I was really hoping to see tons of people dressed up like Star Trek but we actually only saw one. Anyway, it was a great movie. I highly recommend it.
After staying up late Thursday night to watch Star Trek, I was pretty sleepy at work on Friday but I actually managed to get a lot done and got out early and snuck in a nap before heading over to Cambridge Brewing Company for their 20th anniversary. Woke up reasonably early on Saturday and got in my 13-miler which actually wasn’t too bad despite the humidity. We spent Saturday evening celebrating an early Mother’s Day with my mother. For whatever reason, she decided she wanted to go to Friendly’s, and we actually had a great time.
Today, I spent most of the day outside doing yardwork, and it was a perfect day for it: low 70s and sunny. Managed to dig up a TON of weeds, mow the grass, buy bark mulch, put down grass seed and put down the mulch. Awesome. Also spent the afternoon eating delicious food at a friend’s BBQ. Overall, an excellent past few days.
