Shhhhh... can you hear that?

Neither can I.  My house is QUIET!

It's such a rare occurrence that it's become a noteworthy event.  Cameron and Trevor have gone to the pool, leaving Mom and I for a couple of hours.  I think I might need to plan an Angry Birds intervention for Cam (and probably one for me too).

I'm using this interruption-free time to google new/interesting recipes and 10k training plans.  After the initial disappointment of scaling back, I'm kind of excited about training for a shorter distance!  I will have more time on the weekends for other things and shouldn't approach that point in the schedule of dreading my long run (as I always do when they get longer than 10 miles).

Since my distances will be shorter, I think I'm going to take Diana's lead and try another challenge that I attempted a couple of years ago.  The 100 push-up challenge is back!  I think I made it to about the 50 push-up mark last time and then we went on vacation.  Apparently my arms stayed on vacation.  It takes 6 weeks to do the entire challenge, about 10 minutes, 3 times per week. 

I did the initial test this afternoon after spending 40 minutes on the exercise bike.  I managed to do 15 real push-ups (i.e., not "girl" push-ups).  That (unfortunately) puts me in column 3 for working my way through the challenge.  I think I'd much rather do column 2!!  I'm going to try to do my push-ups on Tues/Thurs/Sat.  We'll see.  It sounds good in theory but time is a precious commodity during the school year.

We have lost a lot of our snow accumulation over the last few mild, rainy days.  I think I'll be able to run outside soon!  Even when the snow and ice is gone, I doubt I'll get to run outside on weeknights due to supper/homework/Cam's bedtime.  However, at least I'll be able to do some longer weekend runs outside.  I cannot wait.