Hello all. I know it has been a while. I think I suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), otherwise known as the Winter Blues and just have no motivation, desire, or ambition to keep up a consistent workout in the winter. Therefore, I had nothing worthwhile to blog about so I took a break from blogging, again. BUT….. spring is almost here. I say almost because although we have been having gorgeous spring weather I am fearful that ol’ man winter is going to rear up his ugly head at least one more time before spring really gets here.
With the gorgeous weather this week I have noticed a huge difference in my mood and ambition. I made it out for a run five times this week! It felt so good to get out there in a sunshine and work up a sweat and hear the sounds of spring. My last run of the week was during the first road race of the season here in this area. (Side note: one thing I love about blogging is being able to look back at previous entries. I loved that I was able to go back and read about my race during last year’s March Madness 5k.)
I look forward to this race because it is the first race of the season, but don’t love the course. This year however I actually found myself enjoy the whole thing. The weather was fabulous, hardly any wind (compared to last year) and I felt good. I had no goals or expectations going into the race since I have had very little training this winter with an average of oh, maybe 4 miles a week. All of my runs this week must have woken up some tired but not groggy muscles and got them ready for the race.
I was very pleased with my time – 23:24 - a whole minute faster than last year. SB, a 10 year old and a 16 year old were the only other females ahead of me and I kept them in sight the whole time. I could tell that I was pushing it but never felt that I was dying and I recovered very quickly at the end. I think I may have been so determined to not slow down or take it easy because so many of my students were in the race as well. To my knowledge only 1 of them beat me! :) Even my adorable little sixth grader who threatened me with “You’re going down” at the start of my race couldn’t catch up. Whew!
Since it was Saint Patty’s Day we of course all wore our green.
Even little Ella was dressed up with her Shamrock shirt and hair tie!
Thanks SB for the pictures.
Now that the seasons are changing and racing season is starting back up I hope to return to more regularly scheduled blogging!
