One Step at a Time

Good run this morning................IN THE RAIN!!!!  Bit chilly but nothing like the race a couple weeks ago.  Talked the whole way..... maybe I could run faster if I talked less!

Car is in the shop so I biked to and from work.  Total of 11 miles.  Good biking.  Boys and I walked 3 miles to swim lessons.  Got sprinkled on.  Thanks to a friend who gave us a ride home and had warm scones for us!  Heavenly Father sure has blessed me tons with helpful friends.

Still no car.  Had to bike to work.  It's only about 5 1/2 miles, but it was raining this a.m.  The water splatter from my back tire made for a very cold bottom!!!  Have my biking clothes hanging in a closet here at work to dry!  Thank goodness I have a ride arranged for the way home.

Having a hair makeover tonight!  So excited.  Getting at least 11" cut off and then coloring what's left!  Donating to Locks of Love!  Maybe I'll run faster and weigh less with shorter hair!

Rode my bike home from work - 5 1/2 miles. 

Hooked up the bike trailer on my mountain bike and went to the grocery store.  2 miles or so each way.  The way back w/ the bike trailer full of groceries including three gallons of milk!

Rode to work this a.m.  5 1/2 miles.  Had my Garmin set in running mode - argghhh!!!!  Oh, well.....showed 4:05 mile pace....too lazy to convert that to mph.

Still need to swim 2250 yds tonight.  Hope I can get it done! 

I have really slacked off on training this week.  I will repent next week when I get back from Washington State.  Running an Armed Forces Day 5k in Bremerton, WA while visiting best friend.  Excited to run somewhere other than Utah and Wyoming!

This race was in Bremerton, WA.  The address listed was just an intersection.  I didn't think it would be too hard to find.  I looked it up on Mapquest!  I got to the area in plenty of time, but there was no race!  My friend and I drove around and around looking and asking people.  No one knew anything. 

Finally, I saw some people about 1/2 a block away.  I jumped out of the car and ran through the intersection towards them.  About 30 seconds before I got there, I heard a horn and they all took off running!  The race had started!

I ran up to the few remaining people and said, "Was that the race?"  They said Yes, but the walk will start in just a minute.  I ripped off my sweats and jacket and said that I had already registered and where to pick up my bib #.  A guy just told me to start running and he would get me the # later.  I ran and caught up with everyone and placed 5th overall and 1st woman.  I don't have a time for my race because my Garmin wasn't ready and they didn't post them online.

Now, before you go thinkin' I'm all that and a bag of chips...............there were only 29 people in the race!  LOL  Everyone was so friendly.  The terrain was so different than what I was used to.  Lots of steep up and downs.  It was fun.