Why You Should NOT Taunt the Sports Writer...

....he will put you on the front page.


Yes, that would be Alain & I laughing because we were just yelling and Mr. Sports Writer, "Hey!! Take our picture!! Put us on the front page!!". Hmm. Be careful what you wish for! At least I don't look like Phoebe running through Central Park.

Race results came out in the paper today.......((drumroll please))..... 65:45! Alain & I tied for 74th place. woohoo! The part that gets me is that the girl who won our age group only beat us by 3 minutes. Definitely something to shoot for next year.

In other running news, I had an ok 1.5 mile run today. I say ok because today I did feel like Phoebe in Central Park. I have forgotten how much nutrition plays a part in exercise (oh, so you mean I shouldn't have had that hot chocolate and hour before my run?) - it's important to remember you need the proper fuel for what you're doing. Save the chocolate for after the run, and then I prefer my after-workout-reward in the form of a cookie. Or fudge. Or cake. I'm not really too picky. The few redeeming factors of the run was that it was finally sunny, and that I held a 7:50 pace for 1.5 miles - now the goal is to be able to do it for 3.

After biking 13 miles.

Bring it on.

The First 10K...

...that would be 6.2 miles, for those of you counting.

I needed something to help get my training moving for the  year, so I signed up for the Canal Caper, a local 10K, plus I could walk to the starting line in 5 minutes from my house.  Seriously.  It's a small town.  

I hadn't planned on running with anyone - but one of my girlfriends was there, so we decided to putter along at a 10 minute pace together, thinking "we'll run to the halfway point and then see how we feel."  The halfway point goal then became 4 miles, then 4.5 miles - the goal kept on moving, which was great!!  We probably ended up running somewhere around 5 miles, maybe more, & only stopped to walk twice, just for a minute or two.

Now, I was all set to run this thing on my own, but it would have sucked.  Running with Alain was so much fun, we had a blast!  We were teammates in high school, and coach together now, and (not to get all mushy) but we fell right back into "teammate mode" - encouraging each other, checking to see how the other was doing, and just having a good time.  I know that if I had done it alone, I would not have done that well, so thank you Alain!!

The other reason to be excited:  at this time last year, I could barely run 1 mile - and I just ran 6!!  HA!