What Can I Say??

I started today feeling great...I was coming off my Birthday High! My friend Chris and I were planning on doing a 10 mile run, but he was going to call me when he was ready. I know Chris and he's not an early guy at best, but I was happy to snuggle up keep warm in the morning (it was in the 30's). Chris called, I got ready for our run.

We headed over to Panera Bread at North Hills (a good place to start and end!!) and parked. We started the 10 mile Big Block run. I wasn't really feeling great on the run, but that's what happens when you run the day before and probably don't eat a great breakfast. As we were running along we got to about 3 miles into our run and decided we needed a little bit of runner nutrition (for me honey stingers, and for Chris some Gu). Lucky for us we were near a trash-can on the greenway so we could through out our empty wrappers. Off we went continuing on the run. You know it's 10 miles...if you've run 10 miles you know...you just keep going. We stopped and got water at the Shelley Lake water fountain, then Chris got another Gu before we went through the tunnel on the way to the Long Street entrance to the greenway. I'm telling you about all the stops for a reason...you'll see.

We made it all the way back to Panera (around 1 pm), which I was really happy about. Thinking about food and the ability to finally rest for a little bit. My body was tired, my hamstrings were tight, my feet were tired I was just ready to be done, and happy that we were done.

EXCEPT- when we got back to the car Chris noticed that the pouch on his water bottle where he keeps his Gu and the key to his car was wide open, and EMPTY. Yep, no car key and no real knowledge as where it dropped out. I called Jason and he went and got Chris's dummy key from his house and came to us, but the key did not crank the car because Chris has a Lexus and the key was a smart key with a chip. We ate something at Panera (because we wouldn't of made it otherwise) and then set out to look for the key, starting at the 3 mile first nutrition. We searched and searched going all over the greenway....to no avail. We finally worked on getting the car re-keyed. Jason and I finally went home around 5:30pm, Chris made it to our house after everything around 7:30pm.

Birthday Karma came back to bite me in the butt!!