Running streak: Staycation

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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Streak extender -- August 11. This is the run I forgot to log and thanks to Ms. Laurawesome Matera for determining which day I missed.
Run was prior to our Stay-cation day at Arizona Grand with the Jeffries and Petersons.

The staycation wore me out...lots of sun and heat, made enjoyable by the pool stuff, but still exhausting. We look forward to doing it again though.

First of all let me sing the praises of what I formerly thought to be a somewhat silly idea -- The Staycation. Turns out that, like almost everthing, life is different with kids...our "staycation" weekend at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort here in town was truly fantastic because it helped us entertain our kids for the entire weekend, while also enjoying ourselves. Part of that enjoyment was actually this run too...I left the hotel, located just on the other side of Hwy 51 from Squaw Peak, headed for the Squaw Peak hiking area with the thought of running the trails I had heard about around the Peak itself -- I did not have the mental strength to try a pseudo running effort summit attempt. After reaching the end of the paved road I kept going in that same basic direction (North and slightly east) onto trails circling around Squaw Peak itself. I soon realized that there are many many miles of trails out there and some gorgeous cholla catcus as well...I was really impressed with the area. To my surprise I even found a bit of "Trail 100" as made famous by the 2012 LMI...I never pushed the pace, which probably also contributed to the overall enjoyment. So anyway, I ran for a while before feeling like I needed to return to catch back up with the family since the original "finish before they're fully awake" plan was scraped when Finn woke up around 4:30, resulting in he and I hanging out in the hotel lobby until we felt at least Becca had slept long enough.

"Easy" run that felt harder than easy, but not hard. Off to Staycation we go!
Only because it happened last night, the same day the earlier "tee-tee incident" happened, I will share this story:

Just before dinner I announced that I needed to go to the bathroom and then we (Case and I -- Becca was upstairs trying to put Finn to sleep) we would sit down and eat dinner together. I walked to the bathroom and started to relieve myself...just then I hear Case start running my way followed by a loud and excited announcement that he would like to tee tee too. "We can go at the same time Daddy!" as he immediately arrives next to me, drops his pants and starts to pee before I can even start to say anything positive or negative....well, this was no big deal, but was pretty funny when he finished in less than 2 seconds, jumped up on the step he uses to get to the sink, wash his hands with half a pound of soap, pseudo dry them by high fiving the towel and running out turning off the light behind him then sprinting away cackling like a mental ward escapee. Can't decide if I want to hope for a continuation of Case related tee tee stories or not...that streak is at 2 days.