Another Lovely windy run. I slept in - par for the course during taper week - and so I had to run when baby went to pre-school. I ran him there and half way I noticed that the tire on the stroller was flat. Crap. So, I ditched the stroller at the pre-school and took the long way home. At least it saved me from pushing the empty stroller home :)
Just had a nice run going with the flow. Legs always feel good on taper week. I like it! Throat was dry from running in the wind and my lovely congestion that has taken over, but other than that it was a wonderful cool afternoon run...in the wind.
AP: 8:14 splits: 8:15, 9:04, 8:24, 7:10 (which one was uphill into the wind?!?)
Tonight was Iron Dean night at Chick-fil-a and I found out that rungr8 was doing a 3 mile run from the store to Chick-fil-a, so I figured why not?!? I picked up Lauren from swim at 6:00 with Kristy and we headed down to rungr8. Since dad was late I had to take baby with me in the jogger (I changed the tube in the wheel earlier), but I was running with Kristy and Lauren so it is almost a good thing for me to have a little handicap, especially on taper week :)
It was a nice little run to chick-fil-a (2.5ish) then we got to give our best wishes to Dean and I also got to talk to Kris a little bit too, which was really nice. We ate some chicken then rode the RunGr8 bus back to the store and headed home. It really was a great evening and I was glad I'd made/found the time to go. I had to ditch pack meeting, but luckily dad picked up my slack for me.
I'm getting excited/nervous about SGM, but figure I'll take what it'll give me. I just want a good race. Nice and relaxed racing. Nothing uptight, crazy or nervous. Just relax, sit back and enjoy. When I did that last year I hit a PR - lets hope the same magic happens again!
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