Thursday, December 2, 2010

Thanksgiving Fun, a Cold, and a Broken Pinky Toe.

I have had a few bumps in the road. Two weeks ago I got a pretty bad head cold. It sucked!!! I haven't had one that bad in a while. Anyway, let's just say I am STILL coughing up nasty shiz. I stopped running for a week or so because of it. Then I stubbed my toe so bad that popular opinion is that I broke it. It was so swollen and purple, I've never experienced that before. Then Thanksgiving rolled around and I had signed up to run the Utah Food Bank 5k that day. I was nervous, with all of these setbacks going on! Dave came with me and waited at the finish line for me. It sucked cuz I had to stop every few minutes to blow my nose. The snot was just making it so hard to breathe!!! Lol. Oh, and ummm yeah it was BUTT ASS COLD!!!!!! It doesn't usually get below like 20 degrees in Utah during winter, and it just so happened to be 7 degrees the morning of the run!!! Yeah. Anywho, I thought at the beginning of the run "I will never do this again!" But after seeing my time results (I was 15th out of the 5k women who had a timing chip) I feel happier about the whole experience and definitely think I'll do it again next year. It feels SO great to go out Thanksgiving morning and get in a good work out, for a good cause, and then go stuff your face with the yummiest food ever!!! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Mine was amazing! =) So now my goal is to move from running 3 miles at lunchtime, to 3.25 and then I'll go uo to 3.5 a week or two later. Lovin it!!! =)