Hump Day

Auditors

I have several blurbs in my head percolating right now, but nothing has yet formed. I hope they do, soon. I feel ultra-un-fun with my blog right now. Maybe it is the result of being emotionally spent after the marathon.

Anyway, we currently have four audits happening.
1 - Insurance audit - fairly benign - audit should take 4-5 hours
2 - South Dakota - we had a large project in SD and had to pay gross receipts tax. There are two (two!) auditors here from SD pulling out $200 invoices for porta-johns and asking if the proper use tax was paid. WTF?
3 - IRS audit - seemed not very bad at first, but have received ten document requests in the last week. That's two/day average. It is going to take quite a bit of work to answer his requests.
4 - FYE audit. This is the least difficult of them all. At least, it seems so. They seem to be on with us versus against us. And, yes, with auditors, you are either with us or against us.

Post-Marathon Workouts

Well, I actually had some good runs this weekend, but actually had a most excellent run this morning. I followed a workout prescribed in Runner's World April 2007 issue. Basically, it was this:

• Warmup - run 1/2 mi at 10 min/mi pace
• Run 1/2 mi 20 sec faster than 10k race pace (for me, 8:30 min/mi, so ran this leg in 3:55); 1/4 mi recovery at 10 min/mi
• Run 1/2 mi 10 sec faster than 10k race pace (4:05); 1/4 mi recovery at 10 min/mi
• Run 2 mi at 10k race pace (17 min); 1/4 mi recovery at 10 min/mi
• Run 1/2 mi 10 sec faster than 10k race pace (4:05); 1/4 mi recovery at 10 min/mi
• Run 1/2 mi 20 sec faster than 10k race pace (3:55)
• Cooldown - run 1/2 mi at 10 min/mi pace

This ended up as a 6 mi run completed in 52:30. It rocked. I put on my iPod and just hit it. The idea is to similate a 10k race with the initial surge of energy, the tough middle portion and ramping up for the strong finish. I will be doing this one again - maybe once/wk.

Kids

Nathan has been on Spring Break this week, one week earlier than most schools around here. He attends school that is part of a university, so is on their schedule. It has been a bit tough to manage care for him this week, but it has ended up good. He is staying home during the day. My FIL is supervising the house addition, so is at the house from 7:30 until 5 or 6 p.m. N loves his Papa and so they are having a good time. I like this arrangement for a week. N rarely has the opportunity to sleep in and play in his pajamas all day (if he wants) as we have to be out the door by 7:30 every morning. I like to think it is a treat for him to do this. I have been taking J to daycare. I am going to try to take tomorrow off to spend with just N and I. W is taking Friday off to do the same.