Seven Things About Grimmy and Cal

I heart my kitties, so when I saw Jess's example, I had to follow suit.

1. Grimmy and Cal are littermates. They look alike in their fluffiness and build, but not their coloring.

2. Grimmy and Cal are nicknames. Other nicknames that they're known to go by include: Coofy, Squishy, BFP (stands for Big Fat Poof), Poof, Poofy, Poofity, Calli-poofity, Calli-poof, Poofer, and Limikus-poofity. Grimmy has fewer nicknames than Cal. Cal just seems to inspire nicknames/variations.

3. Both cats actually respond to all their nicknames.

4. Poofy lurves him some human clothes to lay in/on. He can be totally zonked out on the bed, and you put something down on it, and when you turn back around, he'll be totally zonked out on it. Even if your back was only turned for a second.

5. Grimmy thinks I'm his mom. Soon after we brought him home, he developed an interesting habit of sucking on my hair. Eventually this turned to sucking his own arm while kneading my hair. And when he was almost 3 he finally migrated to just the kneading with some occasional lip smacking. He "sucks" every day at least twice: before I get out of bed, and right after I get in bed.

6. The kitties have three biggest fears: people who aren't Preston or me (read: doorbell ringing and knocking), the vacuum cleaner, and anything that sounds like hissing (read: letting air out of bike tires, keyboard air cleaners, people blowing on food to cool it off, etc.). For any one of these things they'll haul ass to their special hidey hole in my bathroom. And I mean haul ass. Don't be in their way.

7. Poofy likes to drink out of the bathroom sink. I think he learned it from Sugar. Every morning he runs into the bathroom ahead of me, and jumps up and into the sink, tilting his head sideways and waiting for the water to flow. His tounge splashes water all over as he licks it out of mid-air. Sometimes Grimmy will join him and they'll jostle for space at the sink. Other times Grimmy goes straight to his preferred water source: the master toilet. Don't ask me why this toilet and no others. It must taste better... I do provide them with one of those flowing filtered nice cat water bowl thingies. Seriously!

Btw, been out of town on business. Did my first brick last weekend (6 miles bike with 4 mile run), and another this past weekend (10 miles bike with 4 mile run/walk). I can totally be ready for CBI in May. Totally.

Saturday Brick and Monday Long Run

On Saturday I got a wild hair and decided to do a brick workout in mid-afternoon. Preston said he was actually really surprised because I never mentioned it until I told him I was going to do it, and when I told him, I didn't ask or waffle around about it.

I decided to go 30 minutes on the bike followed by a 30 minute run. I wanted to stay pretty conservative, since this would be my first real brick in the proper sense of bike followed by run, and I wasn't sure how my legs would care for it.

The bike was easy on the stationary, and I had taken up my sunglasses and ipod so I could make a quick transition to the run. Came out my front door running, planning for a quick 2 big loops and back to home for about 2.75 miles, which I figured would take 30ish minutes. Nothing special to report, other than the incredible tightness in my quads which I'd guess is normal in a brick. The weather was beautiful - mid-60's and sunny.

More shockingly, I wasn't sore the next day!!

This morning I needed to put in a long run, since I'd like to run the 5K over at Rice on Thursday evening, and then I'm for sure going to run the 4 miler in Sugarland on Sunday morning. I want to give my legs plenty of rest before both of these races, since I tend to go out hard in races and come up sore the next day, so that left only today for my long run.

55 minutes on schedule. Cold again this morning. A little tweaking in my left shin. Otherwise nothing special, except that I was rather slower than normal - ranging 12-13 minutes on my normally 11-12 minute loop. 4.9 miles in 55 minutes for 5.25 miles in 65 minutes with the walking. That was Week 9 Day 3 of OHR, I'm almost done!!