Even I can’t fool myself…Tuesday I was lazy and didn’t get up early for my run; so I tricked myself and went that night. The air was still warm even though it was dark by the time I got underway. I ran with a friend from around the corner, GGuy…or GMan sounds better; and he ran like a GMan as I only had to ask him slow down once. He asked me if he did when I asked and I commented for a little while. He apologised, but I said if it was really killing me I would’ve asked again. We covered 6.5km and I’m thankful it’s a rest week. I actually felt pretty good on the run and it was good to push a little harder knowing I didn’t have to sustain it!
Wednesday morning had me convinced I need to ditch these extras like the weights and cycling! All this running is exhausting me. I had wanted to lift weights as well, as I do enjoy it, but chose to sleep and extra hour instead. Wednesday night I had the chance to catch up with a couple of girlfriends, VGal and DGal; a dinner that had been planned for weeks. Life is so busy these days for everyone that you have to plan weeks in advance just to make time to see each other. We had a nice night over a casual noodle dinner and I was home before 9pm.
Thursday morning I felt a little more awake when the alarm went off at 5.30am and I was up and out the door running before 6am. Oh, if all mornings were this easy then I’d be able to run every morning without feeling tired. I rolled into the driveway with another 6.5km under my shoes and even had time to walk down to the park a few houses away and sit on the grass for a stretch; and get CBoy up in time for school! Leaving work at 5pm I headed straight to the supermarket to stock up for another week and about 10 minutes after I got home our dinner guest arrived, DGal. She is a team mate of MGirl’s from last year’s state baseball team, but she likes me too because we are close to the same age. We had a fun catch-up and MGirl even disappeared and kept going with her uni homework because she’s felt a bit snowed under lately. I think we are both looking forward to some time off over Easter to go to Canberra for the nationals!
Which brings me to this morning…it is FD#1’s birthday!!! She is 3 years old today so I celebrated with her by hitting the snooze button twice on the alarm (a 9 minute snooze) to wake up 35 minutes after the alarm went off. Luckily it was only 6.10am and I still had time to take her for her birthday romp at the local park. Something she is in more need of now than ever; life has gone from her being walked 5-7 days a week down to 2-3 days and she seems to be always bouncing out of her skin and chucking bog laps on the new front lawn! Nice to know the buffalo grass is tough and holding up to the punishment! Tonight MGirl is having her baseball team over for a BBQ (along with some parents) and hopefully I can still get an early night in as I’ve finally convinced the running group to tackle my favourite bit of the Bibbulmun tomorrow so I have to show up!! This means getting up at 5am again, but what’s new?
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