It was a good weekend.
Last week, rather spontaneously, I decided to run the Mother’s day 5K on Saturday. I finished with a time of 28:20 pacing 64 or of 222 over all and was 22 of 79 in my age bracket (30-39). I averaged a 9:06/mile pace. If I wanted to make excuses I suppose I could blame it on the 35 degree temps and the drizzle and while I did my best to dress for the cold and wetness – I ended up sandwiching cotton layer between wicking layers and between the sweating from running and the drizzle I ended up just being an icky wet mess. But I don’t feel the need to make excuses - I’m still pleased with my time. It was an up and back all women run – so by the time the leaders were headed back I wasn’t that far from the turning point – much better than the Thanksgiving run where the race leader and I met when I was at the 1 mile marker. I feel like I rebounded quicker after this race too. I had a tough time getting warm but after the race I stayed on my feet and spent a fair amount of time shopping at Menards. By evening the sky was clear and I took the dog for 5 mile walk. And Sunday I jogged 3.5 miles. Much better than when I ran 2 weeks ago and it was a week before I could jog any distance over 1 mile.
I did some yard work Sunday. Put some flowers in pots and put the turf builder on the lawn. Time will tell if I overlapped my track enough. The last time I put the turf builder on lawn, I spiraled into the center of the yard and apparently had no overlap on my passes and I grew a lovely bulls eye in the back yard. This time it should at least be stripes. I have more yard work to do, like turn the dirt in my garden and try to grow a few veggies, but I am a wee bit leery of the temps still and will likely wait to put tomatoes in until after Memorial day.
More new camping equipment magically arrived. Ok maybe it wasn’t magic – maybe it was the USPS. Now Hubby and I have a double wide sleeping bag, a gravity flow water filter, and a new camelbak. I think with the stuff we’ve recently acquired and all of our other camping gear we are all set for some seriously comfortable car camping. I just need to get the big camp stove fixed - there is a fuel leak in the thingamajig so I am hoping my dad can help me replace it the next time I am home.
The Hubby Homecoming seems likes it just around the corner and while I am excited, I am also finding myself a bit more stressed out about it than I anticipated. I find that I am assessing everything I have done and not done in the past 10 months. I’ve found I have changed. I don’t always listen to the voice inside my head that tells me I can’t do something. I keep proving it wrong. I have a larger confidence. I don’t always have to be right, but I also don’t have to be on the losing end of every compromise. I’m trying to determine of all the things I have learned and tried this past year – what is it that I want to keep and what am I willing to give up to make that homecoming transition easier. Something I have started to do. After hubby left and I had to pick up the slack I picked up the ‘Me, Mine, My, and I’ coping habit. Basically instead of thinking as stuff and chores as ours, it all became mine. My dog, my house, my bank account, my budget … all mine. And now I am working to undo that thinking and put it all back to ‘Our and We’.
111 days to go.
