rough ending.

yesterday we took our first canoe adventure with oliver aboard. he seemed to take it alright, once he got the balance thing figured out, and we only capsized once when his human doofus stuck his leg out prematurely at the landing, effectively dumping himself, wife and dog in the water. fortunately, it was in 5ish feet of water so nobody was in any danger.

here is the boy on his maiden voyage:



and it must have really tired him out because all he wanted to do was sleep (i was tired too):



which leads me to today. on the schedule was 20 miles of running, and it really was a tale of two runs. the first 15-16 miles felt great, i stopped at 10 to rehydrate and the stomach felt fine after more water than i should have imbibed. but the last 5 were rough, with a little walking at mile 18 or so. i was feeling light headed and tingly and that is not good when you are running in a heat index of 95+ degrees. all in all, 19.5 miles were run in around 2:20...slower than i wanted but pretty good considering it's my longest effort in 10 years in horrid conditions. never has the garden hose looked so good, i doused myself for 10 minutes after the run and now i'm just really, really tired.

happy sunday.