All Downhill From Here

Now, to catch up on your regularly scheduled blogging…

I took my Gasparilla medal to the Calgary Roadrunners Beer n’ Pizza social run last night. They all thought it was so cute that Penguins Karen, Dawn and Dianne had raced in Tampa with all their little Penguin buddies. I had a great time showing it off and blathering on about our trip.

Dawn had set out on her own run, and Dianne stayed back with her boys while her DH ran. Dianne had done a workout earlier that day at the Y.

Nevena and Nancy C. had come too and we set off west of the Sailing Club by the reservoir, into the sunset on the paved paths for about an hour’s out and back run. The paths weren’t plowed very far, and we ended up running on previously hard-packed snow. I say previously because it was quite warm out for a February evening (8C/46F) and the snow was softening up a bit. Most of the time we sought out the hardest packed parts of the path on which to run, but on the way back those bits iced up in the cooling dark and we shifted over to softer snow or bare pavement when we could find it.

I found a really good rhythm in the last 20 minutes and we worked up quite a sweat. Nancy called me “taskmaster” and I decided that although I felt pretty amazing, I’d probably just been having better luck with my training schedule than they had lately.

I had a Sleeman’s Cream Ale and a few pieces of yummy pizza as I caught up on other members’ lives afterwards.