On December 7 (the same day as our graduation ceremony) we are running the Cayman Islands Half Marathon. Actually, walk/jogging is a more appropriate description. In preparation, we are walking most mornings and slowly building up to the 13 plus mile distance we will have to traverse. Its also not just about finishing but finishing with enough left in our tanks to go do the graduation ceremony later that day. The marathon starts at 6:00 a.m. and we are hoping to get to a pace of 16 minute miles meaning we would finish in the neighborhood of three and a half to four hours. That would give us some three hours before we had to go to graduation and five hours before the ceremony would begin. Today we did a short 4.2 km walk just as a warm up for the week. We will continue to increase our distance over the next four weeks up to about ten miles one week before the marathon then some 5k walks during the week and the full 13.1 miles on the Seventh.
We haven't gotten the tests back on Ginger so we are still waiting to hear if she will need thyroid surgery. We have moved her kitty litter onto the couch and she seems to be going in the litter so we aren't sure what to think.
This Thursday we are headed to Miami for two days of work on the seminar, then a drive up to Orlando to spend a couple of days with Scott's brother Kevin and his family. We return to the Island on Monday which is a national holiday here in the Cayman Islands for Remembrance Day. The Longhorns finally lost a game on Saturday, a gut wrenching defeat with literally one second to go in the game. They are still 8-1 and on Saturday we will have to find a sports bar in Central Florida to watch them play Baylor.
We are now back on eastern time with the end of daylight savings so even though nothing changed here, our tv shows on the weekend are now an hour later.
