Dinner and a movie (AKA marathon training week eighteen)

Today was wonderful.

We had planned on getting up and running our 14 miles early this morning, but didn't get home from play practice until about midnight last night. So, my wise husband suggested that we sleep in, wake up when we wake up, eat something and then go run this afternoon.

So we went to bed and didn't set an alarm, thinking for sure we'd wake up by 9am, maybe 10am at the latest. And then we proceeded to sleep until NOON. I guess we were a little tired.

And then, as we were making lunch, Landon remembered that the U of H game started at 2:30pm, which we wouldn't get to watch is we went running this afternoon, so we decided to have a lazy day at home and then run this evening.

And have a lazy day we did. We stayed in our pj's and in our room watching tv and hanging out with the dogs and making plans for our upcoming races and travels and I even got some lesson planning done for this week. We haven't had a day like this in longer than I can remember and it was much needed. I think we were both pretty exhausted.

Then, on our way to go run, we decided to stop by Landon's aunt's house to pick up some books on tape that she had offered to loan us and ended up staying and talking with her for 2 hours. Which meant we left her house around 930pm.

Well at that point, even if we started our run right at the minute, I wouldn't be finished until midnight, so I was ready to throw in the towel and head home. But we both knew that wasn't going to happen--we've come too far in our training program without skipping runs to skip a long run now. So instead, Landon told me he was taking me out for dinner and a movie--to which we both had a good laugh. We went to CVS for some dinner (gatorade, water and some bars to eat before we ran) and then we pulled out our phones (Landon surprised me with a Pre yesterday afternoon and I LOVE it!) and watched Bride Wars on them while we ran our fourteen miles on a treadmill at 24 Hour fitness, after Landon talked the girl at the front desk into letting us in!

So, dinner and a movie. And a fourteen mile run. That lasted from 10pm until 1230am. And which we both ran at about 10 seconds over race pace, which is pretty good for us. But it really didn't seem so bad because we had a movie to watch.

I love being married to a man who makes even that kind of night fun. I am one lucky girl.