All Downhill From Here

I’ve been a lazy runner and blogger lately. September was a good month to take off of running – there was so much else to do with getting the kids back into school and extra-curricular programs. Over Canadian Thanksgiving I lolled about, doing nearly nothing except rising to the occasion of having the in-laws over for turkey on Sunday. I am not the usual hostess of family dinners like this, but it turned out pretty well, I think.

With not much running going on, there has been not much writing going on. Fancy that. I did waste a ton of time last weekend picking out a blog theme or two I’m thinking of using to do a little redecorating. What do you think of this? or this?

I did run on Tuesday this week. Went to Gord’s and ran with Tim. He and I ran down the Ukrainian church hill (wheee!) and across the Langevin bridge. We ran almost all the way to the 10th St. C-train bridge before caving for a walk break. We waved to Dawn going in the other direction somewhere around Prince’s Island.

I like running with Tim. He seems to think I run a lot, and that I’m in shape. He’s good company and I don’t worry about my pace when I run with him. I just run along and we chat about life and death (he’s in the funeral business).

The recovering right knee is recovering nicely. So nicely, in fact, that my left leg got all crampy and jealous half way through the run. Eventually the legs worked it out between them and we ran all the way up the curling club hill. It felt really good to run up a hill. I don’t remember enjoying hills quite this much a couple of years ago. Total run time was just under 50 minutes, with only 3 short walk breaks.

I ran down. I ran up. My knee is happy, and so am I. I think I’ll go and do it again tonight!