Once again, travel has gotten the better of my blogging. After my 5K on July 4th I recovered over the weekend. Monday morning I headed to Wilmington, NC to teach a class at Cape Fear Community College. The plan was to hit the lab Monday afternoon just to make sure everything was ready for class Tuesday. When I got there I realized there were a few things that needed updating and I spent the next 6 hours working. No running that evening. Co-taught the next two days. Tuesday night we ate at the managers reception at the hotel catered by Carabas. It was free and good. Had a few ravioli, a spoonful of chicken marsala, some ziti with marinara. Not too much, they only give you tea cup saucer size plates. Good portion control. And of course the red wine was free. Wednesday after class I jumped in the car and drove the 3.5 hours home. No exercise that day. Ate Chik-fil-a for dinner. Thursday slept in to rest up for the 5K on Daniel Island that evening at 6:30. Hydrated really well all day. When I left work around 5:30 thunderstorms were starting to roll in so I wasn't sure the race would actually take place. As I sat in traffic on N. Rhett waiting to get on 526 to head over to the race I noticed my car was overheating. I decided to bag the race and take the car to the shop. I left it there and got the bad news the next day, cracked radiator and a dead condenser fan. $500. I would have rather run 3 miles in the blistering heat.

Friday morning the family and I headed up to VA to visit family. Had a nice time and it was nice and cool. In the exercise realm, I woke my buddy Steve Medley up Saturday morning (his hair, which is unnecessarily long, was sticking up and out all over the place) (note to self: have Scott bring clippers on next golf trip) for a nice long run. He made it abundantly clear that he had not done any real running since the bridge run. He seemed concerned with my proposed distance. Steve is a mousy fellow who is probably in the best shape he has been in decades (he's a year older than me but was never really an athlete in high school, golf was his thing) so I wasn't really concerned. I knew he could easily keep up with me. We started out around 8:00 and just meandered around Pearisburg. For those of you not familiar with that part of VA, it is hilly. Very hilly compared to Charleston. I purposely tried to find hills to challenge myself and used my Forerunner to try to keep our pace around 12:30. It was a good run. I felt good and Steve and I carried on a conversation the whole time (except when climbing hills). We had to stop short of the 6 mile mark because Steve had to get to his weekend job.  I will post some info from my Foreunner on the blog when I get home.

I leave on travel again this week so I'm hoping to run Wednesday morning with the group downtown prior to hopping on a plane.

Boot Camp starts again next week.  I'll be on travel, again, teaching in FL but I'll be back the next week and I'm looking forward to getting back into the routine.  I'm also looking forward to the TBC (Team Boot Camp - the group of us that did the Healthy Charleston Challenge) outing to the RiverDogs baseball game on the 27th.  I won't have any more trips until late August, just a lot of work to do at the office and more miles to put on my legs.  "Official" training for the half marathon starts in November.