Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't

Very nice balmy almost up to freezing temps this morning!  Dry roads, just a small amount of wind, great company, (the hubby), and 6 miles to start off my week!  Unfortunatly the clouds were out, I was hoping to see more stars this morning.  Oh well, a great start to what I hope will be a great day and great week! 

I decided to see what I could do a 5K in today.  First I ran 1.5 miles for a warm up.  I did our elementary school 5K route which is an out and back course.  I started off feeling good and went out too fast.  The first mile was 8:48 and that was with a slow down in the second half of the mile.  I don't know what I was thinking when I started, but my legs just wanted to go.  Unfortunately that made me a little tired for the rest of it.  Mile 2 ended up being 9:36 as I had to walk through a few imaginary water stops to catch up from the first mile.  Mile three was 8:42, which felt pretty good.  I was able to push it the last bit.  Overall average pace was 9:00.  Next time I would be smarter to just run actual 9:00 pace instead of doing some of the fast/slow stuff.  In a few weeks I will have to have Tom pace me and see if I can be more steady in my pace and then have a good kick at the end.  The overall time for 3.1 was 27:50.  I had waited for the sun to show it's face before I headed out, but it waited until my cool down to show up.  It was still a nice day though.  I was able to have only one layer on pants and a short sleeve shirt with a lightweight jacket.  I ended up with the jacket around my waist as the sun poked through a bit.  I guess we are back to some yucky weather the next few days.  Good luck to all who have to grin and bear it!

I was so excited to see the sun shinning so brightly this morning!  I was expecting a very dreary, possibly even rainy run today.  There was a slight breeze, but not too bad.  Since there was the potential for wind I decided to take my 'non' wind route, (in Spanish Fork that means a little less wind than in some of the the other areas of town.).  That first mile was absolutely the closest thing to spring that I have seen this year.  The temps were low 30s, no wind, birds singing and beautiful sunshine!  I decided to pull the cell phone out and call Tom to tell him the weather was perfect at the moment and he might want to get out a bit early for his workout so he didn't have to do it on the treadmill later if the weather goes downhill.  He said he thought he might try to do just that.  Well, shortly there after the wind decided to pick up quite forcefully!  I hope the same thing didn't happen in Provo.  He may be out there as I type cursing me and the wind.  Hopefully not.  I guess I'll find out when I read his report in a while.  Anyway, I decided that I couldn't avoid the wind so I might as well tackle it!  I headed straight up onto my canyon wind stretch!  There is always something a little satisfying  when you tackle your problems straight on like that!  It makes us stronger in many ways!  The past few years Tom and I have had to face some very difficult challenges coming at us from many directions on both sides of our families.  Gutting it out during the actual hard times sometimes seems impossible.  But when we have made it through each struggle we have found ourselves with better qualities and stronger individuals, stronger as a couple and stronger as a family.  I guess if we didn't have some wind and rain and lots of snow in our lives we might not grow to be the person we are meant to be.  Sorry, you didn't realize you were going to Sunday School when you started reading this today.  Anyway, I guess I am grateful for so many things right now, I just have to express it some way.  If it were always springtime it probably wouldn't be as wonderful as it is after a hard winter!  If there were always rainbows we probably wouldn't notice them as much as when they come after a terrible storm!  

Tom and I got up and ready to go running this morning and went out to a dang foot of snow!  Holy cow!  We spent Valentine morning shoveling our driveway and a  neighbor's driveway instead of tramping through the terrible streets. This is when a treadmill would come in handy.  I might not get anything in today.  We'll see after I get home from work.  But we are giving blood and doing Valentine things with the kids so it just might not happen today.  But I think I am still a good person even if I only run 5 days this week instead of 6. 

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! 

A very enjoyable 8 miler with Tom during his lunch break.  I got to go on his lake view run, which by the way has absolutely no view of any lake that I could see.  However, it did have some awesome views of our snow packed mountains with beautiful blue skies!  

Talked today about making sure we get signed up for the Strider's Half in April and a run for the red 5K in March.  I was laughing at how I am more afraid of the 5K than the half.  I think it's because with the half I usually don't try to kill myself, whereas in the 5K I want to compete and it bugs me that I can't really do that YET! 

Tom and I joined with the SF group at 6:00 this morning.  It was a nice, brisk morning that frosted our eyelashes, hair and mustaches on those who had them.  (I didn't want to say mustaches because I don't want you to think I have a mustache, but one guy had a really cool frosted mustache.)  I was able to keep up with the slow pack a lot better than I have other times.  Tom was doing a 15 miler where he speeds up 30 seconds every other mile.  So he was with me for a couple of miles and is still out on his own now.

Busy day ahead with a couple basketball games, primary activity and piano festival.  OK, I'm cold now, so I'm going to warm up in a nice, long, HOT shower!