A typical day for Asher

Today he...

• Lit a stick on fire in our garage
  
• Decided to take the plunge and do a #2 in the backyard--just peeing has become too commonplace, I suppose
• Announced, while holding a kitchen knife, "I'm not a kid anymore!"
• Peed in the middle of the field during Eli's football practice

But he also...

• Took turns nicely with Mommy during a game of Animal Bingo
• Worked steadily and put every wooden bead on two shoestrings, then successfully tied the two strings together to make a long, beaded masterpiece
• Didn't overflow the kitchen sink, barely.
• Didn't pour the ENTIRE bottle of dishsoap into the afore mentioned sink
• Threw away one of Finley's dirty diapers for Mommy
• Saved Mommy the trouble of putting the soap in the dishwasher the next time it's ready to be run
• Slept in until 8:30am
• Complemented his brother on his Lego creation, "That's really cool, Brandt."
  

Getting there...

A little workout update--
I've been running 50 min to an hour Monday, Wed, and Friday, then doing a longer (60-80 min) run on Saturdays. I ride the stationary bike Tuesday and Thursday for 50-60 minutes and do weights. I have been recording my workouts--but just on a piece of cardstock. Maybe I'll scan it so I have a digital record.
Today I had a little personal victory. I didn't get speedwork in last week (Jessica, my running partner, and I have been doing it on Fridays, but we did a killer hill workout instead), and this morning I got started a little later and was alone AND the temperature was perfect--I think about 55 degrees--so I decided to do a tempo run. I jogged a 10 minute warm up, then I pushed the pace for 24:40. I wanted to end at an exact spot (hence the reason I ended 20 seconds shy of 25:00) so I could map it afterward, because I didn't wear my Garmin. I went 3.48 miles in that amount of time--a 7:05 pace. I'm planning to run in the Vulcan 10k in November. Training runs like this one give me hope of a good performance at that!