Weekend update

I had a very pleasant weekend. It started with a trip to one of the local ice cream shops in town. They advertised that Friday was the return of the pumpkin flurry. Since I love anything pumpkin, I asked my husband if we could get some ice cream. I ordered a pumpkin flurry and it was so good. It had vanilla ice cream, pumpkin, graham cracker bits and whip cream. I will be heading back to the ice cream shop plenty of time's this fall to get the limited time pumpkin flurry.

After eating ice cream, we headed down to Toledo, Ohio. My husband and I did a little shopping. He got some new clothes as did I. After shopping we met up with one of my sister's and had dinner together at Don Pablo's.

Saturday morning was the start of a 24 hour run challenge on dailymile. I decided to run in the virtual 24 hour race because it would be fun. Challengers didn't have to run the entire time, just logging miles whenever you had the chance. I ran an easy six miles in the morning. I could have run more that morning, but I needed to get ready to photograph a college cross country invitational. The invitational started at 11 a.m. By then, it was hot and humid. I felt sorry for the runners. One of the women passed out during the race and was unable to finish.

At 8 p.m. Saturday night, I got on my treadmill and logged some more miles for the 24 hour race. I finished about 15 minutes before midnight, but I ran another 24 miles. That brought my total for the day to 30 miles. I could have probably gone a couple of more miles but at that point I had been awake for 20 hours. I was tired. I finished the challenge in ninth place with 30 miles and third woman overall. The winner of the challenge ran a total of 64 miles.

I woke up early on Sunday morning. After sleeping less then five hours, I was awake at 6 a.m. I thought about running, but I decided to take the day off. I finished up some work on the computer and worked on statements for an upcoming gallery exhibition that I'm in. I mentioned that I was tired and I ended up taking a two hour nap before noon. I also feel asleep on the couch while watching TV later that night for four hours. When I woke up, the clock read 11:45 p.m. With that I decided it was really time to head to bed.

I enjoyed my three day weekend. I wish I could have more of them.