Sick and Tired

Everyone loves the fall. Cooler temps, leaves changing colors, clearer skies...not me. I long for the long days of summer. When you can get up at 6 am for a run and it is already starting to get lighter outside. When you can pick your kids up from day care and still have a good 3 hours of daylight to run around and play outside. And when you don't have to deal with allergies and sickness as a rule of everyday life.

My family has been passing around a cold for the last 3 weeks. Anyone that has children will know that a 3 yr old, a 7 mo old, and a severe cold do not go well together. Its been a while since Kristal and I had a full night's sleep. Sure we're irratable, but at least experience tells us now that it gets better as they get older. Luke is very rarely sick (I secretly think its because he has built up a killer immune system because I don't make him wash his hands before dinner). Rachel has yet another ear infection and a bad cold. We are going to the operating room this Friday for her to have tubes put in her ears. Hopefully this will be the "miracle cure" that everyone as told us it will be.

As far as running, I've been pretty unproductive. I ran a grand total of 4.25 miles last week and have yet to get out this week. Until I can shake this cold, I don't see much running in my near future. Only trouble is that I am supposed to be in the meat of my half marathon training schedule for the Spinx runfest on Oct 25th. I hope I can get well in time to do a couple of long runs before it gets here.

I'm going to have to rearrange my schedule so that I can get out in the afternoon or some other time than my usual 6 to 7 am. It's still pitch black dark out at that time and my running routes around here do no have the best lighting. A couple of times in the last 2 weeks, I've set the alarm for 5:50 and just don't even roll out of bed. Got to work on my motivation...

On a different note (no pun intended), I practiced with the church band for the 1st time last night and it went really well. I don't play with others all the much, but that feeling you get when you're right on time with everyone else and you can actually feel the music is untouchable. I would rank it right up there with a great run. So I must have held my own at this first session because they invited me to play at the Sunday morning service. I'm nervous and excited about it. I'll let you know how it goes.

Here's our playlist for Sunday:

Lord Reign on Me segue into He Leadeth Me
God is Good All the Time
Change My Heart, Oh God
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)segue into Everything is in Your Hands