Hoppy Easter!

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Hope you had a wonderful weekend with your families. We enjoyed a delicious turkey dinner with our neighbours (and running-mates) Jill and Ryan.  My husband Will runs with Ryan as they train for the 1/2 marathon in the Bluenose and Jill started training with me for the 5km. Both our micro-families relocated to NS from Ontario and therefore we share the unfortunate circumstance of having all our extended-family far, far away. So we decided to create our own 'family' meal and it was a huge success, even with my 5-yr-old acting out!  :-)

This morning Jill and I went for our second training run/jog/walk. It was a miserable, drizzly, cold morning and once we reached the end of Lake Banook, the strong, cold wind nearly knocked us over!  Wasn't pleasant, but we kept moving and the wind settled down a bit along the side of the lake.  Our total time wasn't any better than last week, but we did go further with our first jog, so I think we're making progress. 

I'm going to research a slightly different route for next week's run that has less steep hills. They're too hard on the knees.  Also, I'm going to come up with an interval that we can try, something like 5min jog/1min walk/5min jog/1min walk, etc. so we're more aware of how long we walk. Right now we've just been jogging/walking to whatever feels right - I think we can take it up a notch now, right Jill?  We've only got 4 more weekends before the big day!!

Spring soccer starts next weekend - I sure hope the weather cooperates! Wish us luck! Swimming was more technical this past week, which is good, I can always improve, but it doesn't get my heart-rate up as much as the pure training did. Looking forward to getting more training introduced back into it. Maybe I'll stay a bit later and do more on my own after the class...

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Corinna