Weekend Recap

Dear James, Daniel and Emily,

Enjoyed a mostly stay at home, family focused 3 day weekend.  Got most of a major project completed in reorganizing the basement (again).  Enjoyed watching some football, tried not to overdo it.  Changing up my training with a new App.  Did have some fun family time as well. 

Family

Due to a variety of factors we ended up focusing on home and just the immediate family this weekend.  No big Labor Day barbecues like we normally do.  And no big trips, like the State Fair, either.  Instead we ended up staying home, watched some football on Saturday, then made some progress on our projects.  Sunday was a full dive into the project.  And Monday we took the kids to the zoo for some family fun.  It was a fun trip, although a little exhausting.  Overall though it was a nice restful weekend.

Project

We went into the basement with 4 major goals: clean, organize the kids toys, change up where my gaming stuff was, and change how Connie's stuff was stored.  And we were successful on all 4 points.  The kids stuff was cleaned up, culled about 2 boxes of unused, broken etc. toys.  Also reorganized the legos a little better, making it easier for them to keep up with. 

I wanted to be able to get to my game books and miniatures again.  And I wanted to organize them.  I also cleared out a good chunk of gaming books as well.  Plus got rid of some of my older games that it has become clear James will never get anything out of playing.  So now I can see all of my miniature cases, and I was able to organize them.  Since James has reached point where he is interested in playing, when I take the time to set them up. 

But the main goal was reclaiming the basement so it was not so cluttered, and organizing along the way so that the kids will see that.  Because we both subscribe the broken window theory when it comes to kids messes.  That is, if they see that the house is always a mess they will have little incentive to do their part.  But if the adults make the effort to keep things picked up, then the kids can see what they pulled out, and have less of an excuse to not do their part. 

Training

Going to put all of my Health, eating, running. walking updates and thoughts under this tag from now on, in case you used the Labels for any searching.  Anyway, after last week, where I was able to push myself on Wednesday to a really good time and pace, but really felt it afterwards I was rethinking my training.  I had just read about a different iPhone App call MiCoach from Adidas, and decided to check it out.  The big difference between it and Runkeeper is the ability to set up a training plan, and have it coach me for my pace.  Since I not only want to be able to run 10K by next spring, but also run at a faster pace I thought I needed to change up my process.  Which was the reason I was doing the intervals in my unscientific approach.  Well I think this app will help me reach both goals through a far better approach, which should help me avoid weeks like last week where I just killed myself halfway through the week and ended up hurting too much as a result. 

Football

Got to watch the entire CU-CSU game.  I was really impressed with the team and glad for the win.  It was a very convincing 24-3 victory, and probably could have scored more but I think the coach called off the dogs to some extent.  The defense was very impressive and the offense showed some signs of being both balanced and potentially be very explosive. 

Unfortunately later in the day I got to watch the tail end of the Ole Miss debacle.  That was really very discouraging.  Not happy about it at all.  But one hopes the team got the necessary wake up call so this doesn't happen again.  But not sure, really pretty depressing for a team with high hopes to crash like that opening weekend.