After the dog food project on Thursday, I went for a bike ride at the park at 2pm. Not a good idea when it was nearing 100 degrees, but it needed to be done. That was only training ride #2 since IMAZ. Seriously!
Shellie and I went to the Mucky Duck to see Bruce Robison play Thursday night and he was awesome as usual. If you haven't been to the Mucky Duck, you should definitely give it a try. It is a very small, intimate acoustic concert venue/Irish pub and restaurant. You get served dinner and drinks during the show, all while sitting down (not standing up getting knocked over by drunk rowdy people like most concerts). Bruce rocks. He always puts on a good show.
Friday morning came too early as many of us headed to Uptown Park to run the Run Wild 5k. My 5k PR (24:27) came on a 45 degree morning, so I certainly wasn't expecting to come near that time, but I was hoping to at least run 25:30-26:00. No such luck! I ran just under 27:00. Oh well. I tried. Shellie, William, and Luke all had huge PR's and ran awesome. Afterwards Shellie, Miranda, Luke, William, Andrew, and myself all headed out for a big breakfast and a few birthday celebrations. I went home after that and slept nearly 5 hours. It was awesome!
Friday night we headed to Shellie's for a nice dinner and watched the fireworks over the bayou. I made a new dessert for the first time and I'm in trouble. It was good and very easy to make. So good I think I had it for about 4-5 meals over the weekend.
Fireworks pictures never turn out well...:-(Saturday morning I ran 12 miles with the Houston Fit Fall group. They ran 10.5 and I ran an extra 1.5 at the end. Somehow I had an awesome run. I was under 10:00 pace well over half way into the run and finished up around 10:20 or so. That is super fast for me, especially for a long run in the middle of summer. I felt it afterwards - but it was all a good hurt. I wish I knew when I was going to have good runs like that or knew how to make them happen more often!
After the run I headed home to Beaumont to do nothing but sleep and eat. I did manage to do a little shopping as well. Doug and Linda (part of Team W at IMAZ) came over for lunch Saturday and started asking about the next Team W outing. They are already excited about IMCDA, so it looks like Team W will be in full force again next year (Thank God!). Doug did ask if he had to wear pink again next year and we all said "YES!"
I left Beaumont after lunch on Sunday intending to swim when I got back to Houston, but that didn't happen. I just took a nap instead! I did get some stuff done around my apartment that had been needing to get done for a while, so at least I was somewhat productive. I also watched an old co-worker's sister win the 100m hurdles at the Olympic Trials. That was super cool!
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Make 1 yellow cake in 9x13 pan. Cut into little cubes. Make vanilla pudding - about 2 boxes (but don't learn the hard way like me that silk doesn't so much work for pudding). Slice strawberries and soak in sugar. Buy 2-3 tubs of cool whip.
In a big bowl, put 1/3 of the cake mess on the bottom, then 1/3 of the pudding, then 1/3 of the berries, then 1/3 of the cool whip. Repeat twice. Garnish however.
I have all sorts of plans for other bowls of mush. Chocolate cake, chocolate pudding, whip cream and oreos; tapioca pudding, rum cake, whip cream, and pineapple/malibu rum; and so on and so on. You can use any combination of fruit/berries you want.