Spotty running.

Hello!!


Last weekend (Sunday, December 4th) Cristal and I ran the Merrython 8K in Oak Bay without our kids. It was a tonne of fun, a challenging course (as usual) and a very satisfying finish in around 38:50. Cristal was pretty pleased with her time and I could see the fire in her eyes; she immediately starting talking about 10K times and I jokingly said, "now I'm stuck with you!", meaning that she's going to want to run all her races with me from now on! Honestly, I don't mind at all and it got me thinking that Cristal is the type of runner who gets all in her head during a race and it can be her biggest stumbling block. And let me be clear: Cristal being "all in her head" almost always manifests physically; she ends up hobbling across the finish line. If I can help her out and see her finish strong, I'll run as many races with her as I have to!


Christy has been away in Costa Rica all week (poor thing) and that coupled with Cristal being careful with a sore shin and Adrianne unable to make the runs resulted in two no-shows this week; I had no runners Monday or Friday. That's the first time that has happened in months! I can't say I minded too much... Haven and I ran errands on Monday while Sonja was at preschool and on Friday my girls and I went home and ate popcorn and watched movies. Ah, December. I don't mind taking things easy in December because the new clinic starts in January (dates coming soon) and then the real work begins.


The only bad thing about not running much is that I get complacent. It's really, really easy to start bagging runs when my running has been spotty; it's a slippery slope! So this morning's run with Cristal, Carey, Laura and Lisa was just what the doctor ordered: 12.5K in the bright, cold sunshine. We were working hard and it felt great!

I'm so looking forward to having Christy back with the group this week. And speaking of Christy, I need to post a couple photos of the amazing gift she made for each of our Moms:

It's a race-number holder! Now we finally have somewhere to put all of our old race numbers. And of course the photo was taken before the Half Marathon in October. Thanks again, Christy!