October update
So tomorrow is November 1st and I haven't written anything in over a month. What have I been doing? Well, the biggest thing that happened during October was the Columbus half marathon which I ran (with nearly no training, unfortunately) a few weeks ago. I was pretty nervous about it but ended up running it slightly faster (I think?) than my last half marathon, which was the Cincinnati Flying Pig in 2012. That was a terrible day in that I felt pretty awful physically. So even though I felt MUCH better for this last half, the no-training-part kind of made both experiences equal, I suppose. Still, I had always wanted to try the Columbus half, I did it--and maaaybbee I'll do it again, but who knows. Not sure how I'll feel about it next year. Then this past weekend, some old friends from college and their two young kids visited from Cincinnati and spent a good three days with us, so the house was filled with quite a bit of noise (our dogs...