Day 123

Happy Thanksgiving!

It’s been a long day. I got up this morning and ran the Gobble Gallop 5K in downtown Duluth. My time was much improved from my Trail run in October (about 10 minutes better). I still have lots of room for improvement. But I would have to say for someone that never thought of running a 5K until last July – I’ve come a long way.

The race was fun. My neighbor Mel ran it too. The race was set up so that we ran 2.5 K up one street turned around and ran back. I have to admit I was a little frustrated with shortly after I crossed the 1 mile marker I saw the leader on his way back. But I kept going and didn’t walk any of it. We also had gotten about an inch of snow this morning right before the race. It was just enough to make everything greasy and since it was a holiday and it wasn’t that much snow the city didn’t clear it off.

I guess I’ll have to start looking for another 5K to run in the near future.

Then I came home and started my contributions to the Thanksgiving meal down at my neighbor’s. We ended up feasting mid-afternoon with enough food to feed 8 when there were only 3 of us. Then I took a food coma nap on their couch .
I thought about doing the whole Black Friday shopping at 4 in the morning tomorrow. But then I remembered how I hate shopping with crowds and getting up at 3 AM. So I am going to sleep until the my regular time – maybe I will even sleep in for a little bit too.

All in all things are going well. I wasn’t sure what to expect of the holidays without Aaron around but I seem to be finding a way to get through them. I still miss him lots.

277 days to go.