Three of the things that I LOVE to do are rowing, walking and reading. And I did all three of them today.
I finished reading my current book, and can’t wait to start another one. Sometimes a book is so good, you really don’t want it to end. And sometimes a book is still good, but you’re ready for it to wrap up, just so you can crack open another one. That’s the case today, and I look forward to starting a new adventure tonight!
According to the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure training schedule, I should finish tomorrow with a total of 24 miles walked for the week. And I’m on track this week! After missing a whole week of walking due to a horrible cold (worst cold I’ve had in several years), I wasn’t sure how I would do this week. But I was able to walk 3 and 5 miles on Tuesday and Thursday, and today . . . I WALKED 11.9 MILES!
Now, in my lead-in paragraph, I said that walking is one of the three things I love to do. That’s true, but I just realized tonight that this is really starting to become work! It takes time to train! Who knew?! So far my husband is very supportive, and I just hope that continues as I spend more and more hours on the weekends walking. But, we did have a great time rowing this morning on Lake Union. I think as long as I can work in rowing time (and short walk in the morning to Starbucks), he should continue to back me up on this venture. I just need to get him to start walking further so he can join me on part of my route.
I was going to title this post “Just Another Day on Lake Union”, but there, I worked it in anyway.
First, not only were the police boats out, but this one was spraying water. I’ve wondered why the police boat does that – do they help put out fires from the water, or is it used for crowd control? Sure glad we weren’t too close. That would have swamped us!
Next were the planes. I love it when Kenmore Air flies over us or right next to us. I know that they might be heading to Victoria, B.C., and that’s one of my favorite places to visit.
Finally, the Steamship Virginia V was out practicing some maneuvers, like picking up a buoy. I really wanted to get a video clip of the Steamship when it blew it’s whistle. I love that sound!
For a while, I was trying to figure out what the flag was, on top of the Space Needle. When I finally got the binoculars out, I saw it was a rainbow flag – Pride Festival! I should have known!
So glad the training is going so well for you! And I love that little band of blue sky in the last picture. Totally captures what our summer has been like so far!
I’m so glad you noticed it! I forgot to say something about it. But when I was getting pictures ready last night, I was thinking about mentioning it.