10 Days Until: Chocoholic Frolic 10K
It’s been a bit since I posted here, but I have been doing (most) of my runs. Last Tuesday was 3 easy miles, and they were pretty easy and I did them at lunch.
Last Thursday was 30 minutes at 10K pace, and I did that once right after work (actually, I was way behind on work, so I stopped, went for my run, got cleaned up, and then worked some more) My pace mile to mile was not very even, but I ended up almost in the right pace for the overall
It was a lovely fall day, not too sunny, not too cloudy and just under 60°F
Saturday’s 3 miles at 10K pace did not happen. My uncle was in town to help with fall yardwork, so I took most of Friday off for that, and we did a bunch on Saturday too, and my Achilles was feeling a little tender, so I didn’t want to push it. But I had a lot of time on my feet. Sunday was written as a 6 mile easy run, so I added an extra quarter mile for I could earn my CrD virtual 10K medal. And then, since I skipped Saturday’s 10K pace miles, I decided to do the first 3 miles on Sunday at 10K pace. I think I came down with a short illness, because the whole run felt like it was taking more effort than it should have, and I was shocked to see some of the easy pace miles being as slow as they were when I got home. And that evening, I dozed off on the couch and woke up drenched, as if a fever had broken.
We had an amazing sunset on Friday!
Some of our maple leaves did a thing where they turned brownish everywhere but the veins, and they looked really cool while standing under the tree.
We also had some giant maple leaves about the size of my face
Yesterday, I finally got everything booked for Springtime Surprise. I had been holding off because the price of my preferred flight down was an insane $369! And it left at like 6:30am and didn’t get me into Orlando until 1:45pm because Southwest doesn’t fly direct from MSP to MCO. I really didn’t want to spend that much money for only a half day of vacation, but I also didn’t want to save money and get no vacation time on Wednesday by taking a cheaper, but later, flight.
I finally had a brainstorm yesterday morning: is there a cheap later flight on Tuesday, and would the difference be enough to cover the cost of an extra night in a Pop Preferred room? (I learned my lesson in this year’s Springtime—spring for the preferred room) The answer was yes, it would be basically a wash, money-wise, but I would then get the entire day on Wednesday for park time, and I would only have to use an extra 3 hours of PTO (of which I have an excess because my company is owned by a European company, with European attitudes towards vacation time
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So I booked my flights, booked my room, and booked my Sunshine/Mears transport and all is right with the world
I also failed at running math—it turns out, combining two 2.5 mile routes does not equal one 5 mile route when there’s a 1 mile overlap between the routes 
