Let’s see

Let me try and catch up on all the haps around here over the past few days. I realize most people who read this are looking for C25K news, so I’ll start there. I had an upset stomach for a few days, so 6.2 was Saturday morning instead of Friday. Unfortunately, because of a really crazy schedule this weekend (yes, again) I had just enough time to complete the workout, if I cheated on the warm-up. 6.2 is simple, 2 10 minute jogs with a 3 min walk in between. I was moving really fast (for me) in the beginning, until I reminded myself that running faster wasn’t going to make the TIME go faster! Slowing down helped and I completed the workout. Legs are still feeling tired, and I am going slower than the past few runs and not sure why. Hmm.

I’ll skip ahead to Sunday where my husband and I along with the three kids I was watching over the weekend (yes, really, really insanely busy…2 of them play baseball. ugh. and they live 25 minutes from here, or anywhere.) participated in the “Spear-It” Asparagus Festival 5k. We dropped our two kids off at my parents so we could run stroller-less. It was supposed to be 6.3 which is a 25 minute run. I figured this would be a perfect time to try that and see how I feel doing an actual 5k. Ah, the best intentions. Jason was running to beat his time of last year, so he wasn’t going to be around. The oldest child was running the 5 mile, but being 13 I figured he would still beat me to the end, so that left the girls, 12 and 10 who I decided could run/walk with me. Long story short, a brief missing child (not one I was watching, but their 7 year old cousin) got me extra worried about keeping track of the kids so that kind of blew my 25 minute plan. Instead I spent the entire time trying to urge the littlest cousin to keep going while counting heads of all the other kids in our group. She kind of held us all back, but two of the girls ran together ahead of us but we met up then and again.  I kept telling them we just couldn’t finish last (turns out there were many behind us) and we joked about wanting to beat the little old lady speed walker.  I finished in 44 minutes. Ouch. I know I could have run more, but I think my goal for the 5K this Sunday is just to make it under 40. I’m taking today off and will tackle 6.3 for real tomorrow.

I think this is long enough for one post, the other stuff I’ll write later.

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