HAPPY THANKGSIVING!

I still hate running, but now it is a definite fact that I cannot stand running by myself!

Wednesday Garrett and I got to the SFO airport nice and early for our 11:30am flight to Atlanta. I can't believe it was a total breeze to go through security! We were able to sit and have breakfast and still had to wait a bit to board our flight that ended up only being about 15 minutes delayed - can you believe that? The "biggest travel day of the year"?

Another bonus, we were seated in the middle of the plane in a 3 seater row... and the 3rd person didn't show up so Garrett and I got to spread out, it was so nice! I haven't done that in years... planes are always packed full these days. Again, isn't this supposed to be the day no seat on a plane is empty?? Weird, but great for us!

We landed at about 7:30pm in Atlanta and Garrett's cousin JJ picked us up and headed to Peachtree City to Grammy's house where some homemade chili was waiting for us. I forgot to mention the other bonus we received, Grammy's neighbors are out of town and offered their guest bedroom for us to stay in! I was also able to cancel our hotel reservations in time, yeah!

So back to training... Garrett & I set the alarm for 8:00am (mind you this is 5am SF time and we couldn't get to sleep until after 1am) and we snoozed a few times, but finally dragged our butts out into the 32 degree morning. Garrett, even if he tried to run slow which he didn't, wouldn't be able to keep pace with me, so he went off at his own pace to get in about 4 or 5 miles. I was going for a duration of 45 minutes so I took off and at 10 minutes stopped to do my warm up stretching. For some reason it was SO HARD to run this morning! It could be 1) that I was running alone and had no one to help me keep pace or motivate me to not walk to often or 2) I might have been a bit dehydrated from the long day of flying and not drinking enough water... or both, but it was not fun. My legs felt like they were lead weights, my breathing was really rough and on top of that I bruised the arch of my left foot yesterday! I'm going to blame Garrett only because usually most injuries are due to my lack of grace... a roll of duct tape was for some reason on the floor by the foot of our bed. We have a very high loft bed that we have to climb/slide down from and I slid right off and my arch landed hard right on the edge of the roll of duct tap - Ow!!! It hurt so bad and immediately I could see a bruise and it only got bigger as the day went on. Sigh... I just know all my injuries are going to be like falling off a curb, barstool ;) or landing on a roll of duct tape... no fancy running injuries here.

We cleaned up and went to next door to Grammy's for her famous cinnamon rolls and mimosas and JJ's (and Grammy's) egg strata..mmm... now we are watching Kristen and Grammy making her birthday cake. Yep Kristen is 30 today! And of course, making room for a big turkey dinner later today.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving and safe travels!

Much Love,
Shelby