Yesterday's Workout: 13.6 miles in 1 hour 59 mins and 18 secs with Dad, Anda and Rob
Yesterday was my second long run of the week since I pushed last weekends run to Monday. I made plans with my dad and sisters to get through the long run. It was great to have company the whole way. I picked Dad, Amanda and Rob up about 7 miles away from my house and then we came here to the house. We started from here and the first 7 miles really flew by. We had water stops at 4, 5 and 7 miles. That helped to break things up a bit. Dad and I continued to finish our planned 12 miles. I felt good at mile 9, but probably should have eaten the snack we had hidden at the water stop. By mile 10 I was hungry. Mile 11 and 12 were a little tough and then we realized that our run was longer than planned and ended up with an additional 1.65 miles.
I guess I am ready for next week! I am looking forward to tackling the Hellbender Half for the third year in a row. I don't know if I will get under 1 hr 45 mins, but I hope I get close or at least around the same time as last year which was 1 hr 47 mins. Dad and I kept a good race pace for several of the miles, hopefully I can do it for most of them next week.
Today was a busy day with my sisters Bridal Shower. It was a little stressful for me in the beginning since I realized that my cooler with the meat, cheese and cookies was left at home, in the garage, beside the car where Cowboy left it. He got things out of my trunk but never put the cooler in the trunk. I had to call Cowboy and luckily he was able to meet me to halfway so that I could pick it up. I had just a "tiny" Heather meltdown, spazzy attack which are just not pretty. I wish I could handle those planchanger moments better than I do, but for some reason it just throws me all out of whack when things don't go as planned. I don't always go with the punches as well as I should for some things, other times I have no problem going with the flow. Today was not one of those days. Definitely one of my flaws that I need to work on fixing.
Regardless of that little bump in the road, the shower was great. The food was delicious and everyone seemed to have a wonderful time. The bride and groom-to-be got showered with lots of love, gifts and well wishes. Only 27 more days to their wedding!
QOTD: Do you handle stressful times with grace and go with the flow? How do you do it? How do you not show everyone you are freaking out on the inside? I wear my thoughts, feelings and emotions on my sleeves. I don't know if I will ever perfect the way to mask all that and keep it together, but I hope that someday I can react a little more gracefully than I have been when I'm tossed a curveball.
