long night

Plans to go to be early were derailed pretty solidly last night. The oldest has some standardized testing starting today, so the goal of getting them all in bed earlier than normal worked. But Lucy managed to confound my plan of sleeping.

not 15 minutes after heading to bed to read some more of the Julia Child issue of Gastronomica, well... Lucy started whining. That's not normal.

She'd been going outside rather excessively but not drinking much more than normal. Something wasn't right. Much like Miss Clavel, afraid of disaster, (I didn't run faster and faster - our house isn't quite like Madeline's) I headed down to find well. A liquid mess to clean up.

And then an hour or so later, much the same.

Various schemes were tried - outside, back porch, blocked in the kitchen. Not until it was all restored to normal, at 4am did thing settle down. But then they didn't really settle down. The alarm went off at 5:45 and i was down again cleaning up the tile and the hardwood, letting her out and all that.

Completely wiped out I should have just gone back to bed. But the girls had a big day, needed to get them up in 30 minutes. And my moronic coach (Solobreak called my coach a f*cking moron on Saturday - granted that was after he was pretty much finished with a 40 of Shaffer) had me scheduled to get a 25 minute run in. It is freaking dark at 6am right now.

I got 30 minutes in. The last 10 minutes were hard. I could feel the fatigue. Sleep is a terrible thing to miss. But so are workouts. Finish what you start. I started this planMy coach drew up the season and the plan, and if I don't stick with it he will never know if it actually had any benefit.

Called the vet when they opened. No appointments today but I could bring her in and leave her so the vet could see her between visits during the day. The Vet Tech seemed to be reassuring and thought it sounded most like a UTI. I'm hoping that it is.

After the girls headed to school Lucy and I were both on the couch, she looked tired and promptly fell right asleep, I was very close to dozing off with her.

But instead I broke the perfect week early and dropped Lucy off. I need to see if I can fit her in the trailer so if things need more attention I can take her with me.

This will make this week much more interesting, either from the sleep debt or working to get her back into full health again.

I hope Steamboat has a good crew today to get the course set up.

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