All Downhill From Here

This is silly. I’m trying to write up my usual looong, chronological race report for my half, and you’re not getting to see it, because I’m not done yet. Not only that, but since I haven’t posted my race report, I haven’t posted Tuesday’s recovery run either, because I keep thinking I should get my race report written.

Warning, Whiny Excuse Alert: I’m very distracted by my unpacking, answering my boss’s forwarded cell phone calls, and ferrying my kids hither and yon during my “week off”. I think I’ll just dish out details bit by bit and you can snack on them as they come.

Tuesday night it was hot again, but we showed up at Gord’s for our usual run. Gord assigned his usual scenic Stampede Week route, to the Expo grounds and back, but we Penguin racers had ice cream on the brain and did our own route. Dawn’s beginners stayed on a flat route up on the plateau on 8th Avenue, and Krista and I jogged down to the Eau Claire wading pool and back. We jogged down, at least. We walked most of the way back, coming up through Prince’s Island Park and up the Curling Club hill instead of the stairs. We met Dawn’s group just leaving the ice cream store, and popped in for our own cones. Krista had mint chocolate chip and I tried peach mango tango – yum!

We rehashed our race experiences and talked about what we might attempt next. Dawn signed us up for Light Up the World (woohoo!), so I’m happy I’ll be getting my trail race fix in a couple of weeks. I will keep that in mind as I run up and down some hills tonight during Soccer Boy’s game.

I’ll get into some Half details in the next post.