Ran with Ashley and Wendy at Trinity River at 11:00am. Weather=50, sunny, perfect! Some wind on the way out but easy sailing all the way home. Average pace on way out was 8:15/m for 5 miles. Average pace on way back was 8:00/m for 5 miles. Ended up with 8:08/m for all 10. I talked to the girls for the first 4 miles but the effort started feeling difficult so I told them I just had to put both iPod earbuds in and concentrate. I'm just not running that often right now. I guess I have a lot of other things on my mind. My husband has been given the opportunity to take a job in Italy. Job is in Novara, Italy which is in the northern region about 30 minutes outside of Milan. We have to decide whether we want to go or not. It's a big decision. It'd be a no-brainer that we'd for sure go if we didn't have young kids. As it is now though, my parents and my husband's parents would freak out if we moved their grandchildren overseas for several years. We wouldn't be able to come for visits very often. We have about a month or so to make up our minds. If we go, we have about 9 months before we leave. We would have to sell just about everything we own. It is a tremendous hassle getting there and finding a house, furniture and setting up our lives there... with two pre-schoolers and with none of us speaking italian. The company hires a service which is supposed to help us find a place and do everything we need to do for re-location though. We're leaning toward doing it because we feel like we'd regret it if we didn't.... but the unknown is just so scary. It seems they have some running groups there. They have marathons and other races too. The weather seems nice too. It ranges between 30F and 80F year round. On the plus side, if anyone ever wants to run a marathon in Italy with me.... you'd have a place to stay for free!
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