6 months

A lot has happened in the last six months since I posted my last blog.  I'm such a slacker.  I guess my blogging went as well as my running in that time span.  So here is a recap of what I've been up to.

I now accomplished two items on my list that I like to call, "You know you're an adult when."
I'm starting with the later even in chronological order because it isn't as big of a deal as the event that happened first?  Confused?  You should be.  That sentence barely made sense and probably violated several rules of proper grammar.  Get to the point?  Ok, ok.  I bought a car.  A 2013 Chevy Sonic.  It had a whopping 17 miles on the odometer when I got it and 7 of them were my test drive.  Here is a picture:

So it has satellite radio which is cool, except I have streaming radio on my phone and I don't spend that much time in my car.  It gets close to 40mpg on the highway, except most of my driving is the 1.75 miles to work and back when I'm too lazy to ride my bike.  The color is Cyber Grey Metallic, which is more practical and adult than the cool burnt orange or whatever they call it.  The 1.4L Turbo would have been nice but this one has more "pep" than my truck.  What a good little truck it was too, but hopefully it will go to a good home.  So now I've got cool heavy duty all weather floor mats on the way and I'm trying to figure out a roof rack system, but that will have to wait a while.

The other major adult accomplishment is becoming my own boss.  I am now an owner of Klicks Running and Walking with my good friend Sam Alexander.  While it was a little scary at first, things so far are going well.

What isn't going well, is my running.  Still struggling with some of the lingering issues of the damn Seattle Marathon in 2009, I decided to take some time off to address the issues the right way.  While still getting help from Noble Chiropractic, I've also been seeing Kerry Gustafson (who has been great) of Personalized Health Solutions.  She broke down my mechanics and found out that my achilles heel is actually my achilles right side pelvis.  It just doesn't want to stay put.  So basically I have core strength issues, as well as flexibility issues, as well as major brain malfunction because every time I get healthy, I stop doing anything but running.  So yeah, here we go again.

So I'm going to start running Saturday December 1st.  Just a couple flat miles here and there.  I ought to get up to that magic 30-40mpw range that will allow me to run a totally miserable Orcas Island 25k
race in late January like last year.  Hoping for epic views from Mt. Constitution but I'll settle for no snow.

And other than that, I'm just trying to figure out when I get to go home and hang out with my little nephew Caleb because he's adorable and cute.  He sends me his colorings in the mail occasionally, and we get to do Google+ Hangouts, but I actually want to play with the little dude.  So hopefully some time in January I'll be able to get back and visit frigid northern Illinois and hang out with the family, and friends.

Man, this is a boring blog.  Who reads this crap anyway.  Probably nobody since I bailed off of Facebook.  But I'll post it up on Google+ and Twitter and see what happens.