Brithday party!

Our son turned 9 today. We invited a few friends over. Not many. There were 12 people in all. We had 6 parents and 6 kids.

While the kids played and did whatever kids do, the old people sat around and talked and played a game. I think we had more fun than the kids did. We played a game called mafia. Here are three sets of rules that give you an idea of the game. We did not play it quite like any of them, but similarly.

We don’t normally get a chance to hang out much with other missionaries just because we are all busy during the evenings. But the last couple of weeks during the holidays has afforded us the privilege of getting together more.

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If you are digg member, would you consider digging the podcast? Thanks!

Short run…real short

I was going for a 3 mile fast run today. I wanted to be somewhere around 27 minutes.

The problem was the last 2 days leading up to this run. I did a lot of ladder work. No that is not some kind of special workout. I was just going up and down a ladder a lot. I spent several hours of Tuesday and Wednesday on a ladder. There were two different projects involved. One was putting up a frame to hang a banner on at the church, which hopefully I will get a picture of this weekend and put on here. The other was climbing to the top of my very tall house a few times to see if I could pinpoint a water leak we seem to be having.

Both of these projects left my calves a bit tight and sore the last two nights. This morning I felt pretty good and stretched out a little before my run.

I took off ready to set a quick pace. About 2 blocks into the run I knew that was a bad idea. I then cranked the pace back quite a bit and found that I was still quite sore. So, I made the block and took a nice easy pace back home and called it quits. I have a race this weekend that I want to be ready for, so I did not want to blow it on a run today.

.66 miles in 5:39 for a pace of 8:34 per mile.

First four miles of 2007

Today marked my first running day for 2007. I was listening to Adam at Burning 20 for his first 4 mile run of the year too. He ran his yesterday.

This was an easy run that ended at a 9:58 min/mile pace. I am pleased that my running speed really has picked up. That was an easy run for me. I remember when an easy run meant 12 min/mile.

I have a 5K race that I am running this weekend. I will probably do a faster pace run on Thursday and a nice slow one Friday getting ready for the weekend race.