I'm getting lazy ...

I haven't posted in over a month.  Wow - I'm getting lazy.  Ever since the ironman, I've pretty much been doing whatever I feel like.  No structure in my workouts - just run if I feel like running and bike if I feel like biking.  I told myself - as long as I get a workout in 6 days a week, that will be ok.  But it hit me last night - I have a half marathon to do on Sept 25th.  I better get my butt in gear.  So I ran about 9 miles today.  And I felt good.  My pace was about 8:45 per mile.  No pain - no injuries - feeling good. 
I spent a week in northern California at the end of August with my 2 sisters - we visited old Sacramento, wineries, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, Muir Woods, Alcatraz, etc.  It was so much fun and good to spend time with my sisters.  And I ran every morning.  Just for the joy of it.  No logs to fill out - no miles/time that had to be done.  I just ran.  And it was so nice.  There was a trail across the street from my sisters that I ran every day.  Some days I continued on a little farther.  But it felt good to just be out there running and feeling good.  It's funny how I remember vacations a lot from the running I do on them.  We went to upper Michigan one year on vacation and the thing that stands out vividly in my mind about that trip is the long runs in the morning, with woods on both sides of me and mountains in the distance (it was up near ski country).  And now that I don't have the pressure of the ironman looming in front of me, I'm really starting to enjoy running again.  I wish Mark could run with me though (he's been injured since the ironman).  But until he can, I'm enjoying the solitude of running in the late summer here in Ohio.