Good Friday

Isn't every Friday a good Friday?

Happy Good Friday to everyone and if you're traveling for the Easter holidays, be careful and have a great weekend! If you can't tell, I'm excited for the weekend. We don't have a jam packed schedule of events to do, but we do have some things on the list.
* Grace is gonna see Grandpa. She doesn't see him that much.
* The ladies in my family are having lunch tomorrow. This happens every few months.
* We're having Easter lunch at my Aunt's house out in the sticks on Sunday.
* Church is gonna be awesome and I've invited some people to come with us.
* I'm running 7 miles for a "long" run with all hills. Totally different route.
* David is doing the group ride tomorrow.
* House projects are getting completed even if it is just 1 project. We've got to work harder on getting these things done.

Yesterday after work I ventured out into the world of crazy East Butler Rd. drivers for a 5 miler and instead of doing hill repeats, I'd thought I would just do some long gradual hills within my run. Back behind where David works, there is a hill like that of about .5 long that's just draining (to me, that is), and the wind felt like it was kicking like karate at about 15 mph. David informed me that it was more like 10. Oh well... it felt worse. All in all, it was challenging for me and I stopped a few times to stretch my calf, then had to stop for lights and freeways and such. But, the run was done, and my splits were pretty consistent, except for the last mile. David says I'm sandbagging in the beginning of my run if I can shave off that much time for my last mile. I'm pretty proud of it, and feel that I'm starting to improve my running. It feels good that maybe soon, I'll be back where I was a few months ago.

Run 5 miles 50:21 (10:04 /mi)
10:12
10:12
10:14
10:16
9:26

I think the reason I pick up the pace so much on my last miles, is I see our neighborhood road for the last mile, and I'm ready to get back. But, yeah, it does look like I'm sandbagging some of the pace in the beginning.

I really need to take a rest day soon and prefer to do it over the weekend. But, I need to do a run and ride plus Pilates. I gotta figure it all out soon, and do double days so I can fit it all in. Today is swimming at lunch. David will be there doing his laps, then get Grace in the pool so she can go swimming. She's very excited about it!

We got our race packets for Cooper River Bridge 10K in the mail yesterday! Woo Hoo! It's official. We got 2 sets of T-shirts for the race. Once from the company I work for, who's a huge sponsor for the event and the official race T-shirt. So, now we don't have to go to packet pickup at all. I think they are expecting 45K participants for this year! I read that the coolest part of the run is when you crest the 2.5 mile long bridge and you can see all runners, thousands of runners in front and behind you. I'm so taking my camera with me. I'm really looking forward to it!!!

Have a great Easter weekend everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!