This may be part of an early mid-life crisis for me, but as I’ve mentioned before, we’ve both been doing a lot more exercise. I’m at the gym usually 2-3 days a week, Scott’s going almost every day, and on the weekends, we play tennis (badly on my end, but still having fun).
Our big adventure last weekend was running in a 5K race (a fundraiser for our local domestic violence group). We were both pretty out of practice – I ran in my first and last 5K almost four years ago in Orlando. I did stop to walk a couple of times, but I think it’s because I didn’t pace myself very well, because I still finished in a decent time (just under 29 minutes), and Scott finished a couple of minutes ahead of me. We both placed in the middle of our age groups.
We’ve got another race planned in a couple of weeks. Scott’s thinking about trying the 10K. I’m sticking with 5 until I can run it straight through.
I’m heading home to Illinois tomorrow for the long weekend – looking forward to some quality family time. (See you soon, Dad!)
October 9, 2008 at 7:50 pm
I am glad to see that jug o’ evil pushed off the top your blog.
Good luck with the running.
October 9, 2008 at 10:04 pm
That’s fast Amy!
Have fun in Illinois. Can’t wait ’til you get here.
October 26, 2008 at 10:29 am
Good for you! Remember our trees from our 5K in winter park? The oak tree is doing really well– it’s about 5 feet. The other one (cypress) we don’t water enough– it’s like a charlie brown christmas tree…
I’m just trying to lose the pregnancy weight and get back into running. I gained 40 pounds, have lost 31 of them… but 20 of those came off within a week after giving birth… the other ones go at a rate of maybe one pound every three weeks.