A Week in Review

It's getting harder and harder to fit everything in my life it seems. Between work, painting, running, and taking care of my dog, apartment and boyfriend, I'm totally exhausted! (and hence too tired to post more regularly!)

Well this week, I did some speed work in the field, raced against my dog and my 12 year old god son (What fun! They both whupped my butt!!) and had a great long run today (Monday.)

I'm not exactly sure how long (as far as distance) I ran, but I was out for 2 hours and 20 minutes, my longest yet. I ran through north Ajax, and part of Whitby, and saw some great scenery (dairy cows, corn fields and an apple orchard!!) Who knew I had such great farm life just north of where I live!

It was also fun discovering that they don't have sidewalks in most of the north part of Ajax and Whitby, so I ran on soft gravel shoulders, which was a nice change for my legs.

The countdown is on, I've got just over a month and a half to my race, and I'm getting a bit nervous, cause I'd like to do well (ie: not "hit the wall" as they say) even though it's not a full marathon, I'm not used to going further than 10k...so my legs are still getting used to it.

I'm not as sore as I was last week, which is a good sign, I did some more stretching and took a great hot massaging shower, so I think it helped my muscles.

Ok...I just went to my route map, and measured out (painfully) the approximate distance of my run today....

17km!!! Holy Crap! ;o)

Well, I just need to work on my speed, cause if 2:20 was for 17km...add on another 20-30 minutes for 21km...I'm running a really slow half marathon. But I do think I'm more penguin than cheetah...so in the end, it's not all that important.

till next time...