Houses & Running

We continue to view houses.  So many houses...  The good news is that we've found another house that we both like.  It is nearby, is in good shape, has a large yard, and is in a good location.  We're trying to figure out the best way to proceed, either by doing the contract writing without a buyers agent, or negotiating a kick-back from an agent.

It's newly on the market, and we'd offer substantially less than what they're asking, so it's not a sure thing by any means.  Even if we managed to arrive at a deal on this house, we'll probably have to move in to temporary housing for a bit.  We've been spending time each evening packing up more belongings, and taking them to storage.

I had a bunch of guys lined up to help move the heavy equipment out of the garage, but the weather didn't cooperate.  It's been a very rainy/snowy spring here, it doesn't much feel like spring.

We did manage to make it to Grand Junction last weekend to meet up with Katie and Jordan for a race.  Kristen, Katie, and myself ran the 10k variation, while Jordan manned-up and ran the half marathon.  I think we were all happy our times, it definitely inspired me to get more serious about running.

This Saturday we headed down to Denver since Kristen and I had long ago signed up for a half marathon.  It seemed like a good idea at the time, and only cost $20.  We both weren't in half marathon shape, but spurred on by my experience last weekend, I decided to give it a try anyway.  Our friends Mike & Sharon had signed up too.  We met them for dinner on Saturday night, then got up bright and early today to run.

It was fun, although by mile 10 I really wanted to walk the rest of the way.  I made it across the finish line with my worse 1/2 marathon time ever, but was still happy I did it.  This race is about five months earlier than our typical 1/2 marathons, so I have some time yet this season to whittle that down.

Kristen headed to Dallas tonight for a work thing.  She'll be gone until Wednesday.  Will I just lay around in my underwear for three days, or get stuff done around the house?   Only time will tell...