As always, I'm a day behind. How do you guys keep up with your tweets, blogs, and FB pages? My days are packed like sardines, like today. No, it's not packed like stress-ful packed - more like fun-packed. If only all my days could be like today. Balance is good. Finding peace is good too. Here's why today is good:
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Running In The Rain. Started the day off running in the rain with my C25K ladies. I'm so proud of them for getting their butt out of their warm and dry houses to meet me outside for Week 3, Day 2 of our training. I am so hoping they'll soon understand why I run in the rain, sleet, snow, and heat. The fact that they keep coming to our training runs is a good sign!
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Running In The Sun. After running with my C25K ladies, I went off on my own for my 5-miler training run. In the Sun! Yup, sun came up just in time for my 5-miler and it was nice while it lasted. It got cloudy, then a little drizzly, but it's been awhile since I ran solo, so it felt really good to have that alone time, just me and my wandering thoughts. I got inspired by the pages I read last night from Christopher McDougall's
Born To Run and tried to run like a kid again. Didn't look at my Garmin, just went with feel and it felt amazing! I was landing on my forefoot, and wow did I feel light on my feet! When I finally looked at my Garmin, I was surprised/happy to see I ran faster compared to my last 5 miler last Tuesday AND it felt like it went by faster too! Hmmm...
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Catching Up With Friends. With non-running friends. It's so easy to just stick to running friends when you're training - at least that's what I find myself doing. I love talking about running. If people let me, I would. Today, I caught up with two non-running friends and it was refreshing (in a weird way) to talk about something else other than your first race of the year. Shocking, huh? I did sneak in a little bit about running and yoga, but only because they were staring at me, horrified at the amount of food I was eating! Hahaha! It's what happens when you're rushing after your 5-miler to get back for preschool pickup and then off to meet friends for lunch. I was STARVING.
Anyways, it's been such a great day. The sun is finally all out and I think we're going to play outside today before my guitar and drum lessons for my other 2 boys.
Did you have a great day today? What made it great?
I really enjoyed Born to Run. I just finished Unbroken & would recommend it too.
ReplyDeleteYesterday was a great day because I ran 15 miles and finally feel like I'm back on track for my spring marathon training! There was a little walking because I'm learning to listen to my body, but it felt great to be out and doing it!
YAY for your 15-miler AND for being back on track! It's really challenging, isn't it? Training in the winter. Which marathon are you running in the spring?
DeleteThanks for the recommendation on Unbroken! Will check it out! :)