Last Sunday I ran my third 5K in the Germantown Mayors Cup. I had not trained the week before because we were in Utah skiing. Actually, the skiing more than likely helped. I finished the 3 mile race and one tenth in 37:46. It's not what I had wanted but I did actually shave two minutes from the 5k I ran in San Francisco. The weather on Sunday was beautiful, 70 degrees at 7:30am when we started, and 80 by that afternoon. Unfortunately we are back in the 40's this week. The runners who ran the half marathon complained it was too hot. I can understand that. I want to continue training so I went ahead and signed up for the next 5K April 3rd at the girls school. I had wanted to train this past week but unfortunately Rachel had strep and was home two and half days. I played tennis two of those days but I can not count tennis as training. Anyway, so I'm left with one week to train. I should be ok. I know three miles isn't far to most but for me it's my limit. Mentally, I'm not ready to do more. More being a Half. Right now, I don't love running so I don't see running more than 5 miles in the my future. I did run/walk a 4 miler on Thanksgiving two years ago. It's called the Turkey trot. Great morning to burn some calories! I regret not doing it last year but it is hard to run and cook for people arriving at lunch. We may need to move Thanksgivng to dinner instead of lunch.
