Welcome to May! May is off to a chilly start, just like the ending of April. Whomp whomp! We’ve had a taste of the 70 degree days and I’m ready for it! The flowers are blooming and we are still wearing warm jackets. Boo! It was race week (Glass City) and graduation week, and “the college kids are back” week (yay!!). I biked 20 miles and ran only 15 miles (still need 5 more miles to get my weekly goal!). Here’s what went down in my world….
Sunday – Glass City Marathon! Race day has finally arrived. Simple recap: I ran the 4th out of 5 legs on the marathon relay. I hoped to be under 9:00 for the 5.8 miles, but ended up with 9:04 average. Close enough!! This was my 15th year participating in an event at Glass City. My relay team was comprised of my coworkers. We finished in 5:21. It wasn’t a competition between our two company relay teams, but sure enough my team did finish before the other team by 19 mins. Just saying 😉
The bigger news was that Glass City had a first time marathoner run the full in 2:05!!!! WHAT?! Yes, 2:05. That shattered the course record of 2:19. It was a crazy surprise because the winner is from Ohio and isn’t sponsored. Woah, big things ahead for him! And, that was also an Olympic Trials Qualifier for him. Amazing!! And hey, how about those two guys that went sub 2hrs in London today? What a great day of racing all around. Toledo is now on the map and I bet GCM gets a lot of new runners in the future. I hope so, it is a pretty great race!
Mon – 3 miles running, 20 miles biking, gym visit. It was a well rounded day of working out and being social. I went out to lunch with a friend (oops, no pictures). The temperature got up to 72 today so I couldn’t resist a longer bike ride after lunch. I decided to go for a ride in a direction that isn’t my usual route and I crossed paths with my daughter who was on a walk with her friend. What a fun, random surprise!
Tues – Rest day! Garmin begged me to take a rest day, and I agreed 🙂 I had a crazy evening. I received free tickets to a dance performance downtown, so I figured it would be a nice night out with my Mom. We went out to dinner beforehand, quite early at 5pm. However, the service was super slow and our server kept messing things up. We arrived at the venue at 6:10, for a 6:30 performance. It was general admission so I hoped to get good seats although we were a bit late. Imagine my surprise to learn that the time on our tickets was messed up (we got the tickets through a 3rd party) and the show wasn’t until 7:30!! Nope, no way we were going to sit around for over an hour waiting for the performance so we just called it a night. At least we tried! It was great weather so I went for an evening walk when I got home.
Weds – 4 miles treadmill. Early morning run before work. Nothing much happening today!
Thurs – 4 mile run. I ran along the river this morning. There were a lot of people out enoying the sunshine, even though it was chilly (44 degrees!). I also saw several baby geese. Awwww!
Fri – 4 miles treadmill. I hit the basement again for my morning workout. The workout room got an upgrade. I finally hung the Berlin Marathon poster! It’s a bit smaller than our other Majors posters but just as memorable. And here is photographic proof for my husband that I do use our BOSU ball. And… Zach is home from college. Woohoo!!
Sat – 2 mile walk. It’s graduation day!! What an exciting day for Sydney and a proud day for us parents! I told my son that the graduation ceremony is really for the parents, which was so true. Such a big milestone in life.
Sun – Running? Donuts? Most importantly… it’s packing day! Did I mention we are leaving for Italy on Weds? I can’t wait!!!!!
Need some more inspiration? I’m linking up with Deborah at Confessions of a Mother Runner and Kim from Running on the Fly for their Weekly Run Down. Check out all of the fun blogs there!
Random item of the week… remember I was oh so busy creating a Shutterfly photo book? Each page was created by me in Photoshop Elements and then I uploaded each page to the book. It ended up having 93 pages! Well, when I received the book I noticed that pages 62-65 were missing!! How bizarre! Shutterfly support confirmed they were in the book I ordered, so they reprinted it for me. I’m glad it wasn’t just shipped to someone as a gift. Yay for them fixing the issue, but what the heck??
Q: Have you ever run on a relay team?
Q: Have you ever been to Rome??