Fast Running Mommy

48:45....my partner is a speedster...she likes to push it a little bit which is great because I push it when I'm alone but with a friend I like to relax and don't push it as much...at least she's making us work the way we are supposed to. 

We went fast today...unfortunately I didn't have the Garmin so we aren't quite sure but we were flying...got a little tired at the end. Sasha will probably write about this too but it's too funny...

Yesterday at FHE Julia taught a lesson about love. She starts out saying," Love is important and people love each other. The most expensive kind of love is....marriage."

Sasha and I were doubled up..how funny..how true...so in honor of this well known fact but not commonly uttered by baby's lips I drew a picture of Sasha and I holding hands. I have a thought bubble coming from my head with images of rings, houses, and other expensive things...Sasha has a frown on his face with dollar signs floating around in his thought bubble...poor guys..they have no idea what they are getting into ...do they?  Sasha and I have had quite a few laughs about it....

I really embarrassed about all the attention I got the other day when I said we went fast but I didn't know the time. I can barely do two miles under 8 minute mile pace so I know for sure it was nowhere near that...it was just fast  for us...like maybe closer to 9 minute mile pace...I really don't know. Today we did closer to 10 minute mile pace.  

I'm trying to think of what entertaining things happened today besides my run...um..oh...I think today was my stressed out in public day. I was in a huge hurry to get home and turn off the oven...I know...bad but we were only gone 1/2 hour and I am so spoiled by Sasha always being there I kind of forget when he goes to the temple on Wednesday mornings and isn't there...at the computer like he always is. So anyway, we are at the library and I'm in a mad rush to get home and the security guard stops me because the beeper thing goes off. I have five little kids, high blood pressure over the chicken in the oven and 34 items that I think he's going to have to look at one by one. Luckily it only took at second but I didn't try too hard to show my displeasure...I wasn't rude...just kind of begging him to let me go and hoping the guilt trip worked....felt bad afterwards...should I bake the poor guy cookies?  

Then later today I was at Julia's dance recital practice....it lasted two hours so I  took her and a friend for the first hour and another Mom came to take over for the last hour and was going to drive home.

As I was leaving I asked the receptionist of the senior center (that's where the recital will be held) if they could please turn the heat down. She said no. I said could you put a fan in there. (there was a fan sitting behind her and not being used) She got up and left.

A lady comes back and says, "Do you have a problem?" (I will make a note to self to avoid answering this type of question in public in the future...it does not mean that she wanted to help me but was really trying to pick a fight...) I explained the heat problem and asked about a fan...I should have pointed out the one sitting in the office behind us but was too polite.  That's when the trouble started...she wanted to take out her frusturation at all the little kids running in the halls(which of course my kid and friend weren't doing) and I was the target...I got out of there fast after she demanded that I stay there with my daughter and I guess control all the other 60 some odd little ones driving her nuts.  STRESS.......Anyway, I feel better now that I wrote in down and hope that anyone that actually read this far didn't feel stressed out reading it but hopefully just got a good laugh at a weird day.  

Okay the flying on Monday finally caught up with Amanda and i today..we were both dragging and waiting for the end to come. I usually don't mind adding a little at the end but today I stopped at 5 on the DOT...Sasha was laughing at me for walking the last little bit...oh well. Okay...it's been a rough week. Our stove broke today ... and then I missed Julia's dance recital and she was heartbroken. We went to this two hour rehearsal for it yesterday and I discovered that her class did two dances at the very end. I figured I could show up later and be okay. If we hadn't hit bad rush hour traffic ( which of course I didn't consider because I'm an airheaded housewife who is usually rushing through dinner at that time and not thinking about the rest of the world)..anyway, if we hadn't hit bad traffic we would have made it okay but we just missed it. Very sad. Luckily her friends hung around at the end and the teacher let them get up on stage. What a difference...she went from crying to exuberant in two seconds..she obviously loves to perform....does not get stage fright and is a natural dancer. Her teacher said when she noticed Julia was gone she thought..."Oh no..we need her..everyone watches her to get the moves right." Anyway...sad...guilty mom feelings but nothing traumatic so I'll be content with life...I just like to dramatize things a bit. 

Okay...I'm hopeless...I have no idea how far I ran today...running around the block by myself. I lost count and I accidentally forgot to turn the Garmin back on after stopping to take off my coat. I'm calling it a taper before a possible race tomorrow...especially since I woke up late and I had to push the baby in the stroller...However I am feeling back to my normal self and not overly stressed about cranky ladies or security guards. 

Now I know why my pathetic run felt okay yesterday. I have a cold that is zapping my running energy. I think in a non running body I would probably be more sick and feel tired during the day. I feel fine..have energy to cook and clean and do things around the house but once I start running...yuck. I knew I was in trouble before my race today when the warm up felt hard and I wanted my running partner to slow down for me...pathetic.

Amanda was hoping to be able to keep up with me. She took off in the first quarter and I never caught up. I ran the first half in 13:40..felt like I was gonna die..then I finally started feeling alive and ran the second half in 12:29. I was totally bummed to be beat by my partner but totally  happy for her time when she thought she couldn't do it. yay for Amanda.......I'm excited for her and thinking she'll be able to do tempo runs with me now.