Missed a week

Change of routine so I'll have to find a new time to be posting. Monday nights I'm biking from home now. (Not today though, I'm taking the day off). I am swimming monday mornings and I don't feel comfortable bringing my bike to pool. Oh well, such is life.

So yesterday I did my first half marathon in three years. My mother-in-law and I ran together for the entire race. It was her first half marathon. She started running 7.5 months ago on Thanksgiving weekend. I was heading out for a run and she decided she wanted to come with me as she was itching to workout (over the last year she has turned into a bit of a gym rat). That first day we covered 8 km in just a little over 50 minutes. She is a natural.

I don't think I'm in shape to beat my personal best (set 3 years ago at the same race - the mississauga half marathon). I decided that rather than try and fail I would run with MIL and help her finish her first half marathon. We finished in 2:07 and change. It was a pretty easy effort for me. Probably the easist half marathon I've ever done. We kept up a good pace for the first half. There was pretty big hill around half way and we slowed down a bit after that. All in all a good time :)

I feel bad though, I peer-pressured A into coming down to the finish line to cheer on his mother to her first half marathon finish. Since I did this race three years ago it has grown exponentially. There were SO many people finishing at the same time as us and so many people at the finish line (82! people finished within the minute that we finished). A got there 10 minutes before we finished but it took us an HOUR to find him.

I’m on a roll

Wow, I can get into the habit of this again. Every week I think of things that are blog worthy.

Last week our office hosted all the office and regional managers from Ontario. We had a reception in the office on Wednesday afternoon so that everyone in the office would have the opportunity to meet these people. As they introduced themselves they had to state something that they were doing for their health. Well, the Ottawa office manager said he was training for his 10th (!!!) ironman. Of course, after the meeting I had to ask him which one. Turns out that he, and another Ottawa environmental group employee, are going to do the Florida Ironman as well! So there will be quite the Golder Ontario contingent ;)

This weekend MIL and SIL came to visit us in Woodstock. On Sunday morning MIL and I went for a long run – 21 km, longest I have gone since my Half IM back in 2007 and furthest MIL had ever gone. Run went really well and I felt great all the way through. My hamstrings were tired for a couple of hours afterwards though. We are both going to do the Mississauga half marathon in a couple of weeks. EEK! I was debating with myself as to how I was going to run – go for a personal best? Practice pacing? What? Well, I’ve decided that I’m going to run with MIL and pace her to the time that she should be able to finish in.

Swim this morning sucked, but last Wednesday I did my 2x1000 m workout in 17:30 each! This is 40 seconds faster than I’ve ever done before today. Wahoo!!!