Glad to just be home tonight after a long weekend. I love just being at home with the family (me, Mik'L and our little dogs + our little baby on the way). I'm looking forward to a better week. Maybe not too much though. I'll shoot for 65-75 miles. I see no real reason to go much more than that without a race coming up to focus on. I'll try and shed a few of the pounds I put on over the weekend. Mik'L is heading to PHX for the weekend and some of next week to work with her dad.... and now I'm coming along. However not like most times where I just come along and eat room service and lay by the pool. This time my trip down there will be for a purpose. I have to go to the dentist!!! I had an x-ray and I have 5 regular cavities and 2 others that most likely need root canal's- so if your counting thats 7 teeth that need to be fixed. Have mercy! I do brush twice a day just so you know. But I haven't been to the dentist for over 6 years and I think that all the gatorade I drink may be one of the causes. Lots of sugar. Here is an example of my day when I'm training hard- like through the summer. I'll brush right before bed and then sleep until 5 am or whenever the run is. Then up and I'll drink gatorade right out of bed and then on a lot of occasions I'll be out running for 2 hours or so with that sugar just sitting on the poor teeth. Then I'll come home and drink some more and mess a round with whatever for like another hour and then go shower and brush. Then once I'm out of the shower I spend the rest of the day drinking gatorade trying to get hydrated (I do drink water but when it's really hot water just won't cut it). Then out for the second run sometime late afternoonish. Then dinner, TV, blog, ebay... and finally brush again before bed. Anyways I guess I just need to take better care of these babies. The only good news is my uncle is a dentist (in PHX) and that helps the pocket book. | 