the weekend
Well this weekend went way to fast! Way to fast! Well it started last Wednesday when a friend asked if I was going to run a local 5k and I said I wasn’t planning on it since the next race I had in mind was going to be in May and my running that week wasn’t where it was before Colorado. I talked to my running buddy Dan and we came to the conclusion it would be run to run for fun. That day also Missy reminded me that she needed help moving so was thinking it was going to be long day.
Friday came and I was planning to stay in since Jen was going home and I needed to rest up for the next day. Jen called me saying she didn’t go home like she was so, I was just going to go over till 9 or so but yea that didn’t happen. We took a walk at the course, hung out with her room mate and watched a movie. I got home around 10:30 or so. Not to bad.
That next morning I got up feeling kind of sluggish but I thought I still have time to wake up and plus it was going to be a work out and nothing more. I picked up Dan and we went to the location the race was at. We warmed up and talked the race out and what we planned to do. The friend (Grant) who told us about the race was there and I have been wanting to beat after the way he beat me in the last one but I told myself that this was going to be a work not a race. At the starting line we started up towards front and Grnat was right in front of me. I told Dan that I wasn’t going after him and I that I would think about it in the middle of the race. The gun fired and I told Dan, “I’m going after him!”
Went out a little fast but I kept my eye on Grant. I caught him at the 800 meter and I was planning to slow down and I found out that I couldn’t so for the rest of the race I kept the pace I was at praying that my body wouldn’t give up. I put one foot in front of the other. I finishing 30 sacs in front of grant receiving 11th place and 3rd in my age group. I was happy. Grant, Dan, and begin talking and Grant said he and a group were going to start training for a marathon in October were Dan and I looked at each other saying lets do it. So in October Dan and I going to Chicago to run in the Chicago Marathon! I’m excited and looking forward to it. Dan I and just want to finish it at this point and shooting for a 4 hr finish.
After that I went to help Missy move where I got to see most of the crew. It was great to hang out with Missy, Mandy, Raj, and the twin’s parents. We always have fun. Well I do at least. I spent a couple of hours getting all the big stuff with them and then I with the old place mostly clear and left to meet my friend Elizabeth that was town for the last time for a while. Elizabeth is living the country to work near Portugal for a year. She was visiting her sister down her and wanted to see me also. I got spend a couple of hours with the ladies and then she had to leave.
I spent the rest of the day relaxing and cleaning up my place. Jen came over that nite for a little while cuz I had to be up that next morning for the LSC pancake breakfast. The breakfast, on Sunday, was a hit and it was good eat’n! We got everything cleaned up early and I had time so I went to go pick up Jen at her apt. She was surprised something that is hard to do to Jen. The rest of the day we hanged out. We looked at a house and I took a nap while she studied for her tests this week. We made dinner that nite and watched a movie. Then I had to start the week again. The week seem to fly cuz I was so busy.
Friday came and I was planning to stay in since Jen was going home and I needed to rest up for the next day. Jen called me saying she didn’t go home like she was so, I was just going to go over till 9 or so but yea that didn’t happen. We took a walk at the course, hung out with her room mate and watched a movie. I got home around 10:30 or so. Not to bad.
That next morning I got up feeling kind of sluggish but I thought I still have time to wake up and plus it was going to be a work out and nothing more. I picked up Dan and we went to the location the race was at. We warmed up and talked the race out and what we planned to do. The friend (Grant) who told us about the race was there and I have been wanting to beat after the way he beat me in the last one but I told myself that this was going to be a work not a race. At the starting line we started up towards front and Grnat was right in front of me. I told Dan that I wasn’t going after him and I that I would think about it in the middle of the race. The gun fired and I told Dan, “I’m going after him!”
Went out a little fast but I kept my eye on Grant. I caught him at the 800 meter and I was planning to slow down and I found out that I couldn’t so for the rest of the race I kept the pace I was at praying that my body wouldn’t give up. I put one foot in front of the other. I finishing 30 sacs in front of grant receiving 11th place and 3rd in my age group. I was happy. Grant, Dan, and begin talking and Grant said he and a group were going to start training for a marathon in October were Dan and I looked at each other saying lets do it. So in October Dan and I going to Chicago to run in the Chicago Marathon! I’m excited and looking forward to it. Dan I and just want to finish it at this point and shooting for a 4 hr finish.
After that I went to help Missy move where I got to see most of the crew. It was great to hang out with Missy, Mandy, Raj, and the twin’s parents. We always have fun. Well I do at least. I spent a couple of hours getting all the big stuff with them and then I with the old place mostly clear and left to meet my friend Elizabeth that was town for the last time for a while. Elizabeth is living the country to work near Portugal for a year. She was visiting her sister down her and wanted to see me also. I got spend a couple of hours with the ladies and then she had to leave.
I spent the rest of the day relaxing and cleaning up my place. Jen came over that nite for a little while cuz I had to be up that next morning for the LSC pancake breakfast. The breakfast, on Sunday, was a hit and it was good eat’n! We got everything cleaned up early and I had time so I went to go pick up Jen at her apt. She was surprised something that is hard to do to Jen. The rest of the day we hanged out. We looked at a house and I took a nap while she studied for her tests this week. We made dinner that nite and watched a movie. Then I had to start the week again. The week seem to fly cuz I was so busy.
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