$$$ for Komen
- Hubby and I both met our team goals
- after much email hounding of friends and co-workers
- and contributing to ourselves online
- getting thank you emails from yourself is underrated
- we were not the deadbeats on my mom's team - phew!
- ran early 5K and walked later 5K with ma (and pa taking pics from the sidelines)
- post-race leisurely brunch with ma and pa
- drove 5 hours with tight muscles the next day for 1 hour lunch with birthday niece
- yes, finally broke down and purchased
- cheaper and sexier than a Garmin
- already had foot-pod ready Nikes - who knew!
- tracked my zigzags through the Komen crowd (actually 3.3 miles total!)
- works on the treadmill
- wait, I need to say it again - WORKS ON THE TREADMILL!
- soooo glad I waited!!
Race for the Cure
- great opportunity to try out the new gadget (and fall deeper in love)
- lesson learned - crowded race full of non-runners not a good opportunity for a PR
- gave me a great reason to skip out on half a day of my Saturday class (score!)
- 10K run/walk = more calories for big brunch (I ate my mom's grits in addition to my own huge order) and half a pitcher of margaritas at dinner
- enjoyed hilariously inappropriate conversations with mom during the race (anytime you can work "tea bagging" into a conversation with a parent is good times)
- post-race brunch? yes, please!
- maybe scored some brownie points with my sis-in-law for making the trek, belated gift in tow, and happily sitting next to my newly 5 year old niece (which, if you have a newly 5 year old in your life, you know that this involves putting a lemon wedge in her Sprite, cutting her lunch into bite-sized pieces, tying her hair back - but in a side ponytail, please - and putting a perfectly negligible amount of sriracha on her noodles when she begs for some and absolutely swears she loves it)
- guilt-tripped hubby into an Ikea stop on the way back (to get our full gas money's worth out of that 5 hour drive, of course)
- really motivates me to get outside and run
- even though it does appear to WORK ON THE TREADMILL (cha ching!)
- uploading data via usb is way better than manually entering runs into my now clunky-seeming online journal
- did I mention it's pretty damn sexy - in a verrrry geeky/hipster way?
So, yeah - a little give, a little take. And the marathon training for November rolls on. I'm back up to 9 miles .....with just under 5 months to go and just over 17 miles to add.
