granola cookies

This post is a lot like a granola cookie. A little bit of everything.

For those searching on “PaaMul murder”, here’s the lowdown. According to NotiCaribe, “Ben Walker” apparently suffocated his wife and hid her body under his bodega. They had been living here at least as long as we have and while we were remodeling our place we were in frequent (if not daily) contact with the (murdered) woman. Here in Mexico, you’re assumed guilty until proven innocent, so it is looking bad for “Ben”. If the Mexican authorities ever let him go, he has charges of child molestation pending in Arizona, so he has a long, hard road ahead of him.  According to Noticaribe, his defense was that his wife hit her head after drinking, but as of yesterday it appears she was strangled.  I was pretty freaked out when I first heard the news, but really just because our girls were in close contact for about a 6-month period in 2007.  We pretty much stay completely out of the gossip mill here, so I’ve just been going by the newspapers for news.  And honestly, now that I’ve pretty much determined the girls were not in danger, I’m just ignoring it.

I’ve been reliving some of the 10K yesterday and remembered how eerily quiet it was during the WHOLE race.  It was impossible not to get completely blissed out and zoned running down Paseo de Montejo, the entire 6 lanes of traffic to ourselves and hearing only the footfalls and breathing of the other runners.  I’ve run and done triathlons back Before Kids and I don’t think I’ve EVER done any event that was so quiet.  At first it was a bit uncomfortable, but then I just zoned into it and enjoyed it.

It is SO incredibly freezing I can’t even begin to say.  I don’t want to hear about how cold it is in actual snow, but when it is so cold we can’t even eat in the diningroom (outside) you know it is wicked cold.  There is also no such thing as barefoot anymore.  In the land of no shoes, that is not such a great thing.

Tomorrow I start on week 5 of pre-marathon training and I still haven’t decided on one single training program.  By the end of the week I should, but I just found Runforlife and have more options to try out.  I really should pick a marathon to shoot for and just be done with it, but I’m really not sure.  I found out today that the Lala marathon (March) is supposed to be super fun and then there is Disney which is a blast (Jan) and then IF we go to Hawaii (scatter ashes) there is Kona (June) and I just don’t know…