My Stats:

• Total miles for the week: 9.5
• Total minutes on my feet: 98
• Longest run: 4.2 miles on Wednesday
• Shortest run: 2.5 miles on Tuesday
• Fastest pace: 10:02 on Tuesday
• Geronimo’s total miles: 2.5
• Total miles since I started training for Big D in January: 366.06

The last time my totals were so low was back in January before I started training. It felt really weird to run so little. I kept telling Heather, my running buddy, “That was so easy!” at the end our runs this week. I have the feeling 3 miles won’t feel so easy when they come after 20-something other miles.

Prep Work:

My clothes are set out, my bags are packed (I have a pre-race bag and a post-race bag), the timer is on my shoe. I will be eating pasta very soon, and some bread is waiting to turn into toast for my breakfast in the morning. My Garmin is charging, and my iPod playlist is ready to go. All that’s left is to take it easy, stretch it out, and get a good night’s sleep. I’m not sure if I will actually get a good night’s sleep (I’m so nervous!), but I slept well last night, so I should be okay.

The weather forecast is calling for rain. (Weather.com says there’s a 50% chance of thunderstorms from 8am – 11am. Boo!) I’m trying not to worry about it. (Weather is a fickle thing, right?)

I did get a bit of a surprise to boost my confidence. Thursday evening I came home to find a package waiting for me. Inside was a gift from Stephen:

Sunglasses!

The little box had pearl earring and the big box had sunglasses, both from Tiffany’s! Don’t mind if I do! I really wish Stephen was here right now, and I’d much rather have him than gifts, but the it doesn’t hurt to know that he’s thinking of me. I plan to channel some of his “Army Strong” strength during the race tomorrow. Hooah!

Have you raced in rain before? Any tips? (My mom and I walked a half in the rain in December, but I still feel really intimidated to race in bad weather.)

But then you see this.

And this.

The recently released Tiffany eyeglasses and sunglasses with a logo the size of Mt. Rushmore. Trust us, it is that enormous. Hopefully the next photos give you some sense of the scale.

It’s not the fact that Tiffany is making glasses, or to be more accurate, allowing someone else to make the glasses and put their name on them. It’s called licensing and everyone does it. In this case it’s Luxottica that Tiffany made the arrangement with; the partnership was announced with great fanfare last fall and The Princess has been almost sleepless since, living in fear of how the final product would appear. As regular readers will know, a licensing deal is not what’s causing TP’s blood pressure to go off the charts. No, you know better and are quickly emailing each other with the Red Alert Signal, internally shrieking “Dive, Dive, Dive.” You know the staff has already fled the premises in terror, including Cook, always the most loyal of employees. They even removed the pets.

Well, you can all remain calm. We’re upgrading from the Prozac Latte to a double Lithium Light. On the rocks. Are we hurting? Of course. You see, if there was one company we thought would not fall prey to the logoization of everything, it was this one. We really should have known better. Truly we should have, because all the warning signs were there. The growing number of products in the catalog in the Return to Tiffany and 1837 Collections should have tipped us off. (Below we show a Return to Tiffany charm bracelet and an 1837 Collection cufflink.) Do we feel a sense of betrayal? Of course.

The majority of the glasses don’t appear to be completely wretched. It is the group styled after the Return to Tiffany collection with their massive sterling silver plates glued on the sides that are the worst offenders. LC (Lewis Comfort Tiffany, son of Tiffany founder Charles Lewis Tiffany) would absolutely stroke out if he saw these. Call TP crazy, but we sincerely doubt the Tiffany logo was, or is prominently displayed anywhere on the Vince Lombardi Trophy, commissioned by the NFL, and we doubt it is highly visible on the NASCAR trophy Tiffany’s was asked to create. But here we are with it on the glasses.

But you know what? TP will power down that Lithium Light and move on. Perhaps we’ll turn our attention to the must-see Whim Collection by Cynthia Rowley for Target. Now if you do find yourself intrigued by the eyewear, some of which is curious and some of which might be quite elegant, prices range from $330 to $1,150 and you’ll see everything from rimless to aviator styles. Happy Hunting.