Running at home

So I am back from the island and in Chicago. It was great to start training in a totally relaxed, yet perhaps unrealistic setting, so I knew that the real work began today. I made sure to enjoy my Sunday though. It was a really good feeling to come home and have some gluten free pizza delivered and wait for Mike to come home from one of his last mountain biking races of the season. I was really upset that I missed it considering he killed it coming in 6th in his age group even after two hard crashes. Anyway I was so happy to see him and it made me realize that training at home once I go back to work Wednesday may be hard, but I have my two biggest supporters here, Mike and my sister Marina. She keeps telling me that I can do it and I have to believe her, she ran her first 1/2 in the POURING rain last year. It is just good knowing I have them here and will have them in Vegas.

Today started off good, a nice lazy morning, then BAM! Step at the gym, and it was fun but a little brutal. Next I came home and took a long two hour nap before tackling the grocery store. One thing worth mentioning is that I have once again gone hardcore into being gluten free, no cheating and mostly dairy free with the exception of cheese and milk/butter when they are cooked into a product(they don't seem to bother me then). So I took my time and strolled through Whole Paycheck, oops I mean Foods. But I came away with 3 amazing things...
1) Quinoa Pasta; cooks up WAY better then brown rice
2) G-free oatmeal!!!!! YUM
3) All purpose baking mix

So, that leads me into tonight's run. I did not want it. By no reach was I looking forward to it, but then I just went. And I ran, and I am not going to say I was in a zone...I only am in a zone watching marathons of ANTM, but it felt ok. It felt good knowing I was staying on schedule. So I cranked out two miles in under 19 minutes and am writing up a quick post before I bake some g-free biscuits and my first pot of beef vegetable soup of the season, yup...Fall. It is supposed to be 49 degrees tonight time to get the sweaters out...oh wait, its Chicago next week I'm sure it will be 90!