Running

Running the distance

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I took the day off blogging yesterday. I was feeling so sluggish, tired and slow all weekend. Thankfully today I’m peppy, bright eyed and bushy tailed :)

Saturday and Sunday was the last huge redemption day for Shoppers Optimum points before they change up their points system. If you redeem 75,000 you’d normally get $150 stuff for free, but on bonus redemption days you get $200 worth! So Saturday night we stocked up and were scoping out the Shoppers for a good hour and a half before checking out in the cash. Effective July 1st the Optimum points will no longer be valued as high which is a shame. I think 95,000 points will now be something like $170. Don’t quote me on that. The change doesn’t’ bother me that much as I rarely shop at Shoppers (the prices are high) and this was the first time I ever redeemed my points since I signed up for the optimum card in the earl 90’s when I wasn’t even in high school yet. I remember when the points system first came into play. Maybe I’m dating myself and I should stop talking….

So, I haven’t run in 8 days. I ran into my “coach” which is the girl who developed the Learn To Run program at our gym. The gym is in the same building as where I work, so I see a lot of people from our running group on a regular basis. Today I ran into one of the speedier women and also our coach and we talked about training for a 10k and even a half marathon.

My personal goal was to complete a 10k and then go from there. My running buddy is thinking ahead, and  wants to do a half marathon. I’m definitely on board with that once I complete a 10k, but I don’t know if I’ll want to do a a half this season. Our training group is getting together again only on Thursdays now (it used to be Tuesday, Thursday & Saturdays) which is perfectly fine with me — as long as I have a bit of coaching and a group to run with, the rest of the days I can get my butt in gear and run on my own (doubtful) or with my running buddy.

I’m super excited. I think I’m going to try and run tomorrow as I don’t want to lose the endurance that I built up over the last few months.

Off topic, but has anyone seen the movie Blood Diamond? Such an amazing incredible film. I can’t stop talking about it.

Check back tomorrow because I have a giveaway for you all!

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Photos, Running

Race photos

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One of the ladies that I run with at the gym, her husband took a couple of photos for us at the race. I had no idea that most of these were being taken, of course we posed for the very last photo.

As vain as it sounds I’m definitely not wearing my hair like this again for another race. I had my “bangs” pinned back super tight that I looked bald. So these photos are most definitely photoshopped :)

And this is why I never wear my hair in a pony tail other than sports haha!

I spot my running buddy and I at the start! See that tiny red circle I drew? Right there is where we are!

That’s me slowly jogging into the finish line. That’s a water  spot on my shirt since I flicked a whole cup of water on me at kilometer #4 to cool me down.

We’re cheering on one of our older running buddies who does our jogs at the gym with us. So proud of her! At the end we basically had everyone who had no idea who she even was, cheering for her! It was an awesome finish for her, she even picked up the pace when we started whistling and screaming for her! Such a great feeling.

About half of our running group! Yayyyy!!!

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