Man oh man what a run today! Should have listened to my husband (Marlin) and went up with the group (lesson 1). A couple of reason why I didn't....I was up late watching my two neices (until 11pm) and I took my time in the morning. Then I ended up talking to my sister and dad which kind of put me behind. As I was heading up the hill I saw Lyndsi. She looked pretty good. As I sat up in my car ready to go at Bone I finally had to tell my dad...'dad, I need to go run'. Once I got started I couldn't believe how windy it was. For a split second I thought 'would be nice running down at the greenbelt'. But, I knew there were quite a few great runners up running so I thought...'if they can do it, so can I'. After a few miles I ran into Gary and then later Alana and Alisa and they all looked pretty good. When I got to around mile 4 or so I saw a big group of runners. Jeff, Lynette, Curt, Marlin, Cache. After talking for a few minutes I continued on. Just as I was getting to mile 8 Marlin shows up in the truck. He's the best husband in the world. He was going to stay with me as I finished the run. He had mentioned finishing my run in town, but I wasn't going to stop at that point because I didn't run into the wind for 8 miles just to quite at that point. I knew running back the wind would be at my back and I wanted to take advantage of that. Marlin would drive ahead at each mile and wait for me. I was filling bad that he was having to wait for me and mentally it got tougher to run. So, I threw in the towel and gave in.....he took me to the car and we headed into town. I went to the greenbelt to finish my last 5 miles and I have to say I think it was just as windy there as up on the hill. Just gotta say it was interesting to run in so much wind. Not my favorite thing to do, but glad to get a long run in. Everyone did great!
Today I woke up thinking of the days when I was raising my kids. Used to drop them off in grade school and head to the gym. Would work out for about an hour and a half and then there were days I could actually go to Mission Beach, Pacific Beach or a few other area's around San Diego and run. I can tell things aren't quite the same. Age kicked in. : ) | 