• Several 5.5 milers early in the morning
• Short-and-sweet 2-3 miles when all I had was about 20 minutes one day
• Long and satisfying 10 miles with Juliette and Amy on my most perfect kind of running morning: cool and breezy.
• Deliciously muddy and wet 4 miles on the trails

The best part of logging these is how good I felt after all was said and done. No major aches and pains (though it is definitely time to retire my current pair of Sauconys, according to my toes, feet and right knee, the latter which tends to start getting hinge-y on me when I need new shoes). I just felt good, and I attribute this to pushing myself some but mostly simply listening to my body as I continue training for the half marathon that’s now only three weeks away!

I’m also happy about last week’s mileage because this week is, as I knew it would be, c.r.a.z.y. b.u.s.y. I’ll be lucky to fit in two runs before my college roommates arrive for several days starting tomorrow.  Run #1 happened Tuesday morning, a great 5 mile loop that takes Juliette and me along West Grand Traverse Bay and through downtown Traverse City. I’m hoping to squeeze in Run #2 tomorrow morning.

Amid the planning and prepping that goes along with having company – including deciding to paint two rooms, if you’re nutty like me – I’ve wondered how your regular fitness routine fits in once your guests arrive. Do you scrap it altogether? Go ahead and do it, maybe early morning before everyone awakes? What have you done? I’d love to run with my girlfriends, if only because it’s laughable how un-runnerish I was while at Michigan State University. Two of the three roommates coming to stay with us were the runners, taking to the campus pathways while I shook my head in disbelief…why would they want to do that?

Oh, how times have changed.

So it’d be great fun to run with them now, to share what they now realize is an important part of my life. But one is 7 months preggo, and the host in me feels a bit selfish (I know, I know. I can’t help it) worrying about fitting in my runs while they’re all here. But I think about Mary, my gracious host while we stayed in Minnesota, and how she made running happen for all of the adults, including her. So, we’ll see.

How’s your summer running schedule going? What have you logged lately?