Motivation

or lack thereof seems to be my attitude for exercising this week. I actually did run on Tuesday afternoon. I did 5 miles in 45:12. Not to shabby, that's a 9:02/mile pace. I was pretty happy about the run and felt great afterwards. Well I was planning on doing 5 miles Wednesday afternoon, but since I had to pick up my niece and nephew, I thought I would do it on my lunch break. For some reason my ankle started acting up again yesterday, so I took my lunch break to the park and sat in the sun for an hour. It was pure bliss. I love those types of lunch breaks.

So I'm planning on doing 5 this evening after I get the hubs dinner going. I'm hoping to do it in the same time as Tuesday night, fingers crossed.

On a different note, I purchased the Jogger this past Saturday. What is the Jogger you say? Well it's pepper spray designed to keep you feeling safe. I plan on using it on dogs that chase me into the street. I'm contemplating putting a disclaimer on my FB page that goes something like this: "If you live in my city, and you have a dog that is not behind a fence, chained up, or inside your house, then you better believe that I will pepper spray the dog in the eyes if it comes out into the street while I'm trying to run. I'm only doing this to protect myself, so if you feel like I'm threatening you, then you should take a jog down the street and see how it feels when a big dog comes charging at you from nowhere." That should get the message across that I'm not going to use the pepper spray on some innocent dog and that I'm not out looking for trouble.

Well I signed up for the Loop the Lake 5K on June 26. Since there are no more runs in my area until November, I'm having to find some close enough to my home without me having to get up at 4:30 a.m. and drive there for an 8 a.m. race. I really wish this area would have more races.

Don't you just love

friends who will push you. I recently found a long-time friend on Facebook. He is training to the Ironman in New Orleans this weekend. How freaking cool is that!!!! When I said I was thinking about doing the Girl's Inc. half in P.C. Beach, his response, "Do it!" So I'm almost 99.9% sure I'm going to do it. Ever since I did the half in March, I'm really wanting to do another one and since I improved on my time in the 5k, I'm hoping to improve on my time in the half.

I didn't get to do my Monday evening run because I was watching my sister's babies. Didn't need to get a workout with them there because with two 2 year olds, one 7 month old, and a 7 year old, I was getting a pretty good workout keeping them from going into destroy mode. Once K hits the backdoor at the house the very first words out of her very cute mouth is "canny" or "hungy." She's an eating machine. So I gave her a banana and since EJ (niece) was there, she got one to. Then they proceeded to see how much canny (candy) they could find to eat. It was craziness. Sis finally shows up like 25 minutes after we got home.

I plan on going for an easy 5 mile run this evening, 5 miles tomorrow evening, and 5 miles Thursday. The reason for so many 5 mile runs is that I'm trying to work on getting 10 miles down and when I break up the distance during the week, it makes it easy to do it on Saturday. Plus this Saturday we are going to A-Day so I'm not 100% sure I will be able to get my long run in. I'm planning on getting up around 6:45 and doing it then. We shall see.