Family weekend

It's Friday, and I am OFF! So guess what I did this morning. Went running :)

I returned to my old running grounds at the Euchee Creek trail. Haven't been out here in awhile between all the half marathon training and various races I've been doing lately. So for the first time this year I got a chance to enjoy the pretty spring colors out here. It was a 53 degree, cloudy, windy morning - in other words, perfect - for running, that is!

This is a pretty short trail, but my run ended up being over 5 miles! I ran the whole thing twice, plus today I also ran the road you drive in on. It's a long hill - not very steep, but more of a gradual incline. I was expecting it to be harder than it was, and my pace didn't really suffer a whole lot. Looks like I need to find bigger hills.

The hill, and my car! (on the left)

I did really well out there today. As I said it's been awhile since I ran there, but I've improved substantially since then. Today my pace was a little all over the place - the slowest it got to was about 10:00, the fastest was 8:30 and I averaged out between 9:00 and 9:30. But I got SO many compliments from the other people out there, which I never get! I don't consider myself to be a fast or "great" runner. So I was kind of caught off guard by this. A walking old man I passed a few times kept saying things along the lines of "you get around pretty quick!" Then a walking lady looked at me and said "Wow!" as I passed her. And finally there was another woman runner. She was slower than me. Every time I passed her she said stuff like "You gotta slow down, you're making me look bad!" But she ran the same distance I did (5 miles), including the uphill road which is not part of the trail, and was STILL running after I was done! I told her she was doing an *awesome* job and cheered her on every time I passed her. I felt bad for passing her so much but I was really happy to see her driving on like that. I hope she keeps it up!


And that's pretty much going to cover it for this weekend's activity. My mom is coming down from Virginia for the weekend. She is like me - loves nature and taking long walks. You can bet we'll be walking all over the place as the weather allows. So I'll be getting a little bit of exercise at least. My mom hasn't been here before so I will be taking her all over the place - including my running spots :)

Lastly, I have my Warrior Dash pictures! Wasn't too impressed with them, I didn't know where the cameras were so I looked really stupid in most of them. See?

 

The slide one is just silly. I look terrified but I was really just screaming and having fun. It was a fast slide!

Oh, and here's me waiting in the ridiculous line at Goliath. Lol

When I was in the mud pit they were taking pictures as I passed, so I tried to look decent and smile at the camera. Somehow I have no mud pit pictures. Oh well. Got some pretty good fire jump pics