Marla that challenge sounds like a good one. Put the focus on smart decisions. Praying too the inspection goes well on Tuesday. I struggled a lot with eating after my injury when I was restricted from activity. Like you said the boredom got to me.

Val you did great at the party. I love appetizers so that would have been a big challenge for me. Sorry the dog sitting isn't going well.

Visiting cat is still mostly hiding in my basement but she's starting to relax so hopefully by tomorrow she'll come out. I go down periodically and talk to her, and today she's letting me pet her.

The humidity finally dropped here. It was a horrid 88% on my run this morning. It's now down to 35%. I didn't think it was supposed to drop until tonight or I would have waited to run. It feels so much more comfortable. The past few days have been sticky.

I went to the track to run to practice running at a set cadence, and that was interesting. I'm currently running 3 7-min intervals with 2-min walk breaks, plus a warmup & cooldown walk. My first run interval I ran about a minute to set my pace, then turned on the metronome app. I could feel the difference right away in how I was landing, but I felt like I was working harder and I was going so slow. Second run I went out on the road (1/3 of my runs are currently on pavement), and that felt a little easier, and the third run back on the track felt great. My pace the third interval was 1:20 min/mile faster than the first but felt a lot easier, so I'm thinking I needed to get used to the cadence both physically and mentally -- getting past that "this seems so fast" mindset. I had to keep reminding myself that first interval my pace wasn't supposed to be faster, just my cadence. My third interval is still slow from where I was pre-injury but it was closer. I'm using the interval program on my Garmin so it beeps to let me know when to walk/run, and also gives me pace by interval not just per mile.