Life gets in the way...

Happy belated Father's Day to all my 'dad' readers. Summer is upon us - although you wouldn't know based on the weather forecast for this week...

It's been almost three weeks since my last post... I wasn't kidnapped or struck with a case of carpel tunnel - sometimes life just gets in the way.

Honestly, I haven't had much to write about because I haven't been out running *GASP* - apart from one time... Last weekend I participated in the Lunenburg 5km "Muffin Run", along with over 500 other runners including my running partner Jill and her hubby Ryan pushing their bambino in the stroller. We weren't able to find a jogger to borrow, so my hubby watched our boys so I could run - what a sweety. This was the first time Jill and I ran together since the Bluenose! Hard to believe. Jill did awesome once again - improved on her Bluenose time by 4sec! I'm sure it would have been more if I hadn't been holding her back... I improved my Bluenose time by 1sec and thought I was going to vomit at the end. Sprinting the last 200m was a bit much for my training-deprived body I'm afraid!

The weather was so bizarre that day. When we were running at 9:30-10am it must have been around 30 degrees C, not a cloud in the sky, and I was wearing black yoga pants! That could have been a contributing factor to the feeling of nausea at the end. By 11am the wind shifted, clouds rolled in and it felt like the temp dropped at least 8 degrees! Why couldn't the race have been at that time!?

Another likely contributing factor to my ill fated ending was my lack of hydration before the race. You can most likely relate to my thought process as I was preparing for that Sunday morning... A friend had warned me the day before about the lineups at the 'loo' before this race last year and since we were leaving later than I had hoped (all my friends reading this are laughing right now - I'm compulsively late - go ahead, have your laugh) I knew there wouldn't be time to 'go' when we got there, so I decided not to have anything to drink that morning. Did I mention Lunenburg was a 1hr 10min drive from our home? Let me tell you, I learned a valuable lesson on the importance of proper hydration! By the end of the race my legs felt like dead-weights. I had been sweating so much from the heat and too much clothing I doubt there was an extra drop of fluid left to feed my muscles what they needed to finish the race.

I am going to make a pledge right now to always arrive at least 30min before start time for any future races so that I have time to go to the ladies room and be well hydrated!

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