Monday, June 13, 2011

Give and Take

Give:
$$$ for Komen
  • Hubby and I both met our team goals
  • after much email hounding of friends and co-workers
  • and contributing to ourselves online
  • getting thank you emails from yourself is underrated
  • we were not the deadbeats on my mom's team - phew!
Time out of an extremely busy week/weekend to enjoy time with the family
  • ran early 5K and walked later 5K with ma (and pa taking pics from the sidelines)
  • post-race leisurely brunch with ma and pa
  • drove 5 hours with tight muscles the next day for 1 hour lunch with birthday niece
$$ to Nike for my new gps watch
  • 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!!
Take:
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
Family
  • 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)
Nike+ GPS Watch
  • 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.

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