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This morning Todd and I did a brick workout - we rode our bikes 18 miles and then ran ~7.5 on trails. I forgot how GREAT it feels to run after biking! (that was sarcasm). It was tough! The first 3 miles of the run were kind of painful, and then it felt pretty good. My Garmin battery died (my own fault - I haven’t charged it since I got it) at about mile 4, but the bike averaged 17 MPH. Not too bad for the first time out this year. Plus I was being careful not to go too hard since I knew we were running afterwords. I’m not sure if I’ll have time to do another brick before the duathlon on Sunday, it’s ok - I’m sure I’ll have my competition cut out for me. I will allow Elizabeth or Janet to beat me - anyone else - look out.

Today Elizabeth and I went to a rain barrel workshop at Shaker Lakes Nature Center. It was really cool! We each made a rain barrel that will hold 55 gallons of rain water that we can use to water plants and flowers (basically we can do everything except drink it). The barrels that we used were donated from a local Italian food vendor - so they were used to hold olive oil and olives! Yum! I am going to let Todd have it since I don’t have a place for it and since he has a lot of plants that will be able to benefit from the water. It was funny because it wouldn’t even fit in my trunk! I had to put it in the back seat - that’s fine, I don’t mind. It’s better than driving an SUV.

We were acting like ‘dumb girls’.