snow falling spring

Last night John and I went out for dinner (yay! kid free time!) and to see the movie One Week. Great little canadian film by the way. Filled with snapshots of our beautiful country and heavily sprinkled with heart string pulling moments. It all seemed very relevant, considering my upcoming "shave" as the main character has to face his cancer diagnosis and most importantly life-lived and to be lived.

I had a pint of Guiness for a little of the luck-o-the-irish and stuck to the turkey wrap and no snacks at the theatre. Yay for me! However, as we turned into the driveway to relieve the babysitters the weather started to turn. The wind picked up and snow was on its way. Great.

I had hoped for a 30 - 32 minute 5k at the St Patrick's Day run the next day. Last year at this time I decided to make my comeback at this race after a year and a half (more?) of depression, overeating, and no activity. I ran it in 38 minutes and was sooo disappointed in myself. I figured, at best, I could improve on that. Even better: get that 30 minute 5k I've been chasing.

Let me start off with this: running a 5k race is hard. You should be going pretty hard but you need to stay relaxed, and you need to NOT blow it (very easy to do) in the first half.

A quick review:

START: oh, crap I've seeded myself too far back (behind strollers and dogs)
1KM: get outta my way (tension building in shoulders)
2KM: ok, feeling good, what's my pace, shit, that's too slow HURRY UP GIRL
3KM: oh yeah, I'm cooked, hello legs? wake up?
4KM: uphill grunts while crazy guy starts yelling and sprinting himself up the hill. I'm just guessing that he hasn't quite trained for this.
5KM: ah kiss it goodbye, be happy you're a bit quicker than last year, be happy you ran - who am I kidding? I have a date with the distance and next time I plan on winning.

Well the kids are in the bath and it's time to put them to bed. It's a week without John so I'll have to be a bit creative with my workouts. I hate when that happens but you take what you can get.