My family and I recently came home from visiting family last Sunday. We spent 5 days with my brother, Michael and his family and 5 days with Jock's brother, Alex and his family.
We started our trip to Louisville, KY to visit Michael, Tiffany, and baby Colton. Colton is the sweetest little guy! My mom, step-dad, Pete, and Mackenzie were all there as well for Colton's baptism. The house was full and busy, but it was wonderful to spend time with everyone. I had called Pete prior to leaving to see if he would run all or part of my 10-miler with me while we were there. Like a trooper he agreed and we set out early Saturday morning. It was great to have the company to run with and also to catch up with how things are going for him. The one thing that was a challenge for me was the elevation changes. It's FLAT here in Houston. So flat that people in my running group run parking garages for the hill work-outs. My brother's neighborhood is anything but flat. Holy HILLS! I used to run in San Francisco... but that was long ago, and I am NOT accustomed to running with the steep elevation changes!!! We survived... and I was able to get all but one of my weekly runs in while we were there.
We then flew out Maryland to visit Alex, his wife Julie, and daughters, Miriam, Sophia, Veronica, and Anna. We hadn't seen them since Veronica was born so the girls had a great time playing with their older cousins! Andrew was the girls' jungle gym, poor thing! He ached a bit here and there but never complained. I managed to get one of my runs in while we were there. The climate was similar to Houston so if I wasn't out there early enough.... well, it was just too hot to go! Unfortunately I missed my 12-miler. Alex had agreed to run with me before we got there, but he found out that he had a stress fracture to his foot and there was no way I was going to let him run with me... even though he thought he could.
Since I missed the 12 miler on Saturday, I upped my mileage this week and plan to run the 12 this weekend (I was suppossed to drop to 10). I know it happens... but hopefully as I start ramping up the mileage, I'll get those runs in!
We took a TON of pictures so check out the photo gallery of our time with family!
We started our trip to Louisville, KY to visit Michael, Tiffany, and baby Colton. Colton is the sweetest little guy! My mom, step-dad, Pete, and Mackenzie were all there as well for Colton's baptism. The house was full and busy, but it was wonderful to spend time with everyone. I had called Pete prior to leaving to see if he would run all or part of my 10-miler with me while we were there. Like a trooper he agreed and we set out early Saturday morning. It was great to have the company to run with and also to catch up with how things are going for him. The one thing that was a challenge for me was the elevation changes. It's FLAT here in Houston. So flat that people in my running group run parking garages for the hill work-outs. My brother's neighborhood is anything but flat. Holy HILLS! I used to run in San Francisco... but that was long ago, and I am NOT accustomed to running with the steep elevation changes!!! We survived... and I was able to get all but one of my weekly runs in while we were there.
We then flew out Maryland to visit Alex, his wife Julie, and daughters, Miriam, Sophia, Veronica, and Anna. We hadn't seen them since Veronica was born so the girls had a great time playing with their older cousins! Andrew was the girls' jungle gym, poor thing! He ached a bit here and there but never complained. I managed to get one of my runs in while we were there. The climate was similar to Houston so if I wasn't out there early enough.... well, it was just too hot to go! Unfortunately I missed my 12-miler. Alex had agreed to run with me before we got there, but he found out that he had a stress fracture to his foot and there was no way I was going to let him run with me... even though he thought he could.
Since I missed the 12 miler on Saturday, I upped my mileage this week and plan to run the 12 this weekend (I was suppossed to drop to 10). I know it happens... but hopefully as I start ramping up the mileage, I'll get those runs in!
We took a TON of pictures so check out the photo gallery of our time with family!
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