Run, Lucy, Run

Catching Up

March 26th, 2008

I’ve been meaning to write about my 12 miler for a few days now, but work, this website going down, and lots of Easter chocolate have kept getting in the way.  Now that dinner is in the oven, Ashok is asleep and Brian is watching the Lakers, I have a chance to post.

Happily, I can report that the run went great!  So, so, so much better than my 10 miler two weeks before.  I drank a crapload of water the day before, made sure to get out early and beat the heat and took it slooow.  Aside from a couple of quick walk breaks to drink water and eat my Clif Blocks, and one quickie right around mile 10 going uphill, I ran everything else.  It was such a relief to knwo I could get through it.  Time was 2:10:36.  I would love to go faster, of course, but I’m trying to focus on just getting through it at this point.  This weekend I do 8 and then the Great Race of Agoura Hills is the week after!  I am still trying to decide if I am going to stay out there the night before.  The race is about 45 minutes from where I live and starts at 7am so I would have to get up pretty effing early to get there on time but then again, there is something to be said for sleeping in your own bed.  I’ll continue to ponder.  I’m starting to get excited!

Of course, I’m also excited because the day after my race, we are getting on a plane and going to Maui for a week!  We haven’t had a real vacation like this in a loooong time, not since we went to the Big Island which was a year before Ashok was born.  I can’t wait.  Naturally, this Hawaiian vacation will not be quite as relaxing since we will have a toddler along with us, but I am really excited to do all sorts of fun stuff with him.  As long as he sleeps (please!), I think we will survive.

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