October 2012 scenery and stuff

.99 cents, two balls (one not in picture) and a drill bit.  What a haul for a run!

Very different from my Teton runs but beautiful none the less.  Sunrise on the I 75 over pass.

Full moon and lady liberty.

I have no idea what the hell this dinosaur and apple are doing in this person's yard.

Pretty

I came out of the pool and found .46 cents!!!!!

Dressing up manatee mail boxes is BIG around here.  It amuses me.

Crime scene?

Sunrise over the Peace River

I was not on a run for this picture but I needed to post it.  It was noon when this dude was shaving at a stop light.

Sun rise from the public pool.

One of my favorite pics lately.  Sunrise over the Peace River.

Bliss, the beautiful public pool

Animals of October

Mud puppy that was crawling into the road.  It had tiny little arms and was very slimy.  I encouraged it to return to the creek with my toe.

Roseate Spoonbill at the lake by our house.  Spectacularly pink!

Fiddler crab.  They are all over the boardwalk along the Peace River.

Cool ant hill

Some kind of snapping turtle in a ditch by the sidewalk.  I tried to make it mad but it didn't want to bite the stick I was putting in its face.

Gopher Tortise

My little Dolly!

A tiny frog attached to my office window.

Bald eagle

Egret

Dead bat

Butterfly

Another butterfly

1,000 days, 1,000 miles

On February 13th, 2010 after being given the go ahead to walk on the hip that I broke, I decided to start streaking again.  I decided to do a mile a day.  I have done one mile a day minimum each and every day since then.  On Thursday, November 8th, 2012 I hit my 1,000th consecutive day of one mile a day!  That same day marked my 270th consecutive one mile a day running streak.

And tomorrow I run is my blog post from the beginning of the streak.  Unfortunately, the pull ups lasted about a week but the walking/running has continued.

Some random observations about a mile a day:

• It's helped me maintain some fitness when I've done nothing else.  Case in point, last October I was peer pressured into a 50 mile race with no training except the mile a day walking in the two months before.  It wasn't pretty but I finished and I'm glad I did it.
• Hardest day was the day after Vol State.  I had edema and it was hard to breathe, my legs and feet were swollen and I was TIRED despite a week of 100 mg HC.  Luckily, I didn't have to be on the road to do the mile, I ran trough a corn field.  Nice!  My "speed" of running was laughable for days.  I could only "run" 4.2 mph.  I can walk faster than that most of the time!
• Thanks to Colleen Woods for getting me started on wanting to streak.  
• Thanks to Steve Tursi who "counseled" me about running a mile a day as opposed to walking.  He didn't actually "counsel" me, he just told me I could do it when I was doubtful about it. :)
• After Barkley, I got my running clothes on and headed out.  Lisa Bliss said to me, "where are you going?"  I said, "I have to do a mile."  She said, "Oh, you're a streaker."  It happened at Vol State too.  It's so awesome to have my OCD be understood!
• Thanks to my husband for standing next to the treadmill on the days when I really, really don't want to do my mile!
• Maintaining a mile a day streak is NOT HARD.  Everyone should do it.  EVERYONE!  If it's so easy, why not?
• I almost always find money or gift cards or small toys.  It's like Christmas almost every time I'm on the road.
• On days I feel like crap, sometimes a mile is the best medicine.