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Our vacation in Washington DC is rapidly coming to an end. It has been very fun but it has also made for some very long days. When traveling to Washington DC you come to find that there is some great public transportation, but you will still end up walking a lot to see everything. AJ held up really well to all this transportation. He even managed to find a friend or two on the way. Yesterday AJ met this kid named Eric from Chicago, Illinois. They had a lot of fun playing with each other:

Even so the walking did eventually catch up to AJ:

At those points we tried to find a bus, because carrying 30 pounds for a long distance is not that fun:

AJ didn’t get many naps on this trip, but luckily he wasn’t too fussy. He did however have his “collapse” point. For AJ this was at about 9PM. After that it didn’t matter where he was, he was going to sleep:

Weeks to the Half: 10
Weight: 300
Longest Distance Run: 7 miles
Well, the weight is coming down again which is good, but I am really not happy about all the yo-yoing. I am in a distance block right now due to my weight and that is really frustrating. Any time I try to go up to 7 miles my shins start to hurt a lot. I think this is due to the extra weight I am carrying. This week I worked on strengthening them by doing more sprints and a couple of uphill jogs. I am hoping that it will help me break that 7 mile barrier.
On Monday, I had AJ come along with me for a 5 mile walk. He is quite the walker himself. He is only two, but he can walk two miles on his own. I was quite impressed. His problem is he gets distracted way too easily. I almost thought he was part dog because he stopped and pointed at every fire hydrant on the way to point at it and say “Yellow.” Then when an ambulance came by he started to mimic it by going “wooowooowooo.”

Weeks to the Half: 14
Weight: 302
Longest Distance Run: 2 miles
They say “that the road to failure is paved with good intentions.” This is how I feel my week went. I had a lot of good things planned this week as far as jogging goes, but none of them worked out. I was supposed to go on a 5 mile hike on Saturday, but it snowed. I was going to make it up for it on Monday (my early day at work), but traffic got in the way. My only saving grace is that with the traffic I had the presence of mind to go to the mall and start walking some laps while waiting for my ride to pick me up. I could chalk it up to bad circumstance, but I think it was bad planning on my part. This week I learned I need to have a plan B in case plan A doesn’t work out, because I know that plan C is to sit on my lazy butt and do nothing. This is how I got myself to where I am today!!
I also have an issue of after work training. I am a commuter and so I leave relatively early in the morning and I come home relatively late. I am not a big fan of jogging in the dark, but I am going to have to get over that. I guess I am going to have to get a good jogging flashlight or something. It gets really dark at night where I live (not a lot of street lights in the forest).
Anyhow, I am looking forward to a better week coming up. I think with a bit more of better planning I will have some better output. I am always looking for good ideas. What do you do when your plan A doesn’t work out?