Slept in...finally! Rode with Adam down to the rec center. Just a short run to move the legs. Easy day before the last SGM long workout tomorrow. I just jumped on at 8:27 pace and ran. Listening to my ipod and enjoying the time running. All of a sudden I looked at the clock and realized I'd been running for almost 30 minutes. Shoot. I was only going to run 3, maybe I'm close. I was at 3.2 miles! I didn't even realize it! I would've thought I was maybe 1.5. Gotta love it when those miles just fly by! Especially at a decent pace (for me anyway). Bumped it up to 7:53 pace to finish off the last .3 miles then wiped up the TM and headed to the pool. I could've run forever! :) Now, to explain what happened at the pool will take a story and little confession. I've been missing female running companions :( Seems like most of the time I end up running with guys. What happened to all my female peeps? :( Either I'm to slow for them, schedules don't match or we're too far. I've been feeling really abandoned. Maybe it is me and I need to get outside of what has become my comfort zone. I don't know. Either way, I was whining to my hubby and came up with an idea. I'd look through the Ogden marathon results and find females that finished w/in 10 min of my time that lived in Herriman, Riverton or South Jordan. Stalking skills at their finest :) Well, I found someone that lives in Herriman that finished just 2 min after me! Score! I knew this was my new running buddy!! But, try as I might, I couldn't find Rebecca Strain anywhere. She didn't even have many results on Athlinks. Poo. I was SO close. Where is my running buddy? :( So, with all this fresh in my mind, as I go to the pool I see a lady (about my age) sitting on the side with her kids and she has a Big Cottonwood Canyon Marathon shirt on! This is her...I just know it! (see, I'm still stalking!) So, I ask if she is running that tomorrow...half or full (full)...Oh, I'm waiting for SGM. Well, we end up chatting about running! She is a trail runner and does Squaw Peak 50 and so hasn't run Ogden, but this will be her 10th full in SGM this year! So, it wasn't my long lost buddy Rebecca that I'd been searching out, but still! A running buddy! :) I don't know what her schedule is like or if anything will ever work out, but we talked about tri training, trail running and lots of other stuff. We both proposed the idea of running together sometime, because we don't like to run alone. She said she wasn't quite up to my speed, but runs more like 3:45 in fulls. Hey, pretty close! I told her that we could hit the trails and she can kick my trash there. That was the perfect plan. She prefers trails, but hates to run alone! Bonus! Then, in the mix of all this she asks if I run with the BBKs (after telling her my name). I said well, I get their emails and used to, but I haven't been running consistently with them for a while. She said she recognized my name from their emails! Awesome! See?!? We were already connected and didn't even know it. So, since we already had each others emails sitting in our inboxes we said we'd email and set up a time to run trails together...after SGM :) Maybe she was just humoring the crazy lady that struck up a conversation with her in the pool, but it seemed like she was as excited about having a new running partner as I was. I guess time will tell. Only problem? I don't remember her name. oops. great way to start, huh? I think it is Stephanie, but I'm not sure. I do remember her email and already sent one out to her. She hasn't ever run with the BBKs she just met Cheris at baseball, so we wouldn't have ever met before this. Crazy! Anyway, I hope I found a new friend :) (what a loser story, huh?!?) So, long story longer I chatted my time for swimming away and thought "well, that's okay, I'll just pay for the extra daycare time." Jumped in the water and swam for about 5-8 minutes. Then all of a sudden it dawned on me that it was FRIDAY! Early out day for Kindergarten and I had 20 minutes to get out of the pool, get Adam out of daycare and then RIDE my bike home to be there when the carpool dropped off!!! Crap! So, I jumped out of the pool. Hardly worth even getting wet. Oh well, I got a few laps of pulling in anyway. When I took my cap off my hair wasn't even wet...seriously?!? Swim for 7 minutes? Not worth it! Quickly changed, Grabbed Adam got on the bike and got home as fast as my legs would carry me. Still had about 5 minutes before carpool came - score! They were about 7-10 minutes late though :) Anyway, crazy morning, but I think the lack of the swim was worth the pay-off of a new possible female running buddy! No offense to any of the guys I run with. I just need some girl time. ***PM*** Family Fun Run for the Elementary School Fund raiser. All my kids ran a mile and since they were all in different waves I ran with each of them. I didn't want to start out in the crowd, so I walked across the field and met them 1/2 way through the first lap. I only had my flip flops on, so I just ran in them. At least 2.5 miles total and all my kids did a GREAT job on their runs!!! Such a proud mama, always a proud mama :)
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