Reflective-wear & "I Need Some Serious Chocolate Cake"

Just putting in a short nighttime run before I'm fully enveloped in tapering mode. (I found that I really dislike tapering. I thought I'd find some kind of reprieve in it, but it's like slow torture!)

Sorry for the blurry pic, but it was hastily shot as I wanted to get on the road - it was windy and cold and I felt like I was...  darn it! I forgot to put on my running gloves with the reflective piping and Under Armour logo - sheesh. It's very eye-catching and hard not to notice since your hands are moving back and forth. (I don't know what I was looking at, by the way... probably some car coming up the road so I could test something out...) Now, lately, I've started running with my Nathan reflective vest and have noticed drivers really do take note of me and make an effort to steer clear when they can (thank you!) - I got it on sale from REI about a month ago. It has a longer backside to it and has a lot of reflective material for some serious high visibility coverage! I'm a street runner so I need all the help I can get.

Speaking of seriousness, here's a quality meal that I'm quite positive I can eat every day for the rest of my life...

 . .. ..unless you offered me pizza, like from Grimaldi's... or something similar. I hate it when I sidetrack like that. Anyway, my wife is the consummate chef and tolerates my healthy eating from time to time - one of my favorites: salmon and seasoned asparagus (she's very awesome and I can prove it in the pic that follows)...

Yes, you know it! Talk about a treat! Okay, there's a longer story to this and it involves some broken egg shells that made the immediate use of several eggs a priority for the day. So there you have it. But awesome, nonetheless! That's some serious chocolate cake.

Three and a half days 'til the RnR Las Vegas 1/2 Marathon! Here's the Course Map - I'm excited that I'm going to be running a nighttime race and right there on the Strip of all places, and yet here I am wondering/worrying about my race time! You know, we always want to improve and always be progressively moving forward - but if I can just get it in my head that keeping to my training pace and finishing the race strong is still a very good thing! Besides, I almost forgot I'm running a local 1/2 marathon just a week after Las Vegas - the Holiday Half ...hmmm, don't know what I was thinkin'. Well, I doubt I'll be saving any energy for the following week's race, but hey, it's all about the running, right? And the scenery... don't forget the scenery (insert two thumbs up here).