Last week, I had blogged about the hoops I was jumping through to get to a gigantic track meet for my college kids a moderate distance from home and still fit in my own running program. Well...this weekend might be even busier! We started out with a high school meet last night with our youngest running the 4x800 relay and the 3200m run for a total of 10 laps of racing. He looked very strong. His times were not exciting to him, but plenty good for early season. I wouldn't advise getting in D's path when he's racing :-) He followed up that busy night with an 8 mile training run at 8:00am followed by his first week of Trap Shooting practice at 10:00. I packed him a hearty lunch to tide him over til he gets home. My running friend needed to get going early this morning to get her son to his activities, so we were done running around 6:30 this morning...that's early for a Saturday! This week's run called for 2 hours running with 2 periods of 2 miles at race pace. I'll admit, at that early hour, race pace miles were VERY tough to come by. We made a reasonable effort, but I was definitely feeling it. I am currently 2 weeks until race day and looking forward to tapering down from the long and difficult workouts toward the race. When I got home, I spent some time with the foam roller to loosen up my muscles. Now I'm about warmed up and ready to go for yet another track meet this morning. Today's meet is only 20 minutes from home and both of our college kids are participating. Charlie is coming along; he loves being outdoors and he attracts a lot of attention from college kids who miss their own pets. He's kind of a therapy dog in that way, but he'd probably argue the pleasure is all his.
Next week is Holy Week and Easter. I'm very glad for a couple of shorter weeks of work and the chance to spend some time with family. At the beginning of Lent, I heard someone speaking on the radio of making this a "Resurrection-Style" Lent, where we should aim to lift one another up with compliments and encouragement rather than negativity or doubt. I love that sentiment and hope that everyone is finding their running program to be uplifting heading into the Easter season. Happy running! Missee
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AuthorMissee and Stephanie are two Minnesota sisters and moms who love to run. We are not experts in running, parenting or anything else, but we do have years of experiences that may be helpful or entertaining to others. Archives
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