Tarheel 10 miler surprise

Well what a surprise, I actually did so much better than expected. Last week my husband and I were talking about how we should have probably trained for the race, we were reading an article in the paper about how there is a mile uphill challenge at mile 8.5?! what?! I know Chapel Hill, is, well a HILL, but didn't realize it was going to be thrown in as a challenge at the end!

I should clarify, I am a dog runner, my furry running buddies keep me active but their paces are all around a 10 min mile. I do run by myself some days, but lately have been anywhere from a 7min/mi-8:30 min/mi pace. The last race and the last time I actually trained was nearly 3 years ago, and as age 31 is fast approaching I never wanted to race assuming that my fitness level would have dropped enormously.

As usual, I had my prerace jitters, though we left the house at 6:40 for a 7:30 race so there wasn't too much time to get nervous (thats the great thing about living 15 min from the starting line)

Anyway, so I came in 2nd in my age group, 10th female overall with a time of 1:09 and as for that mile uphill I was so scared of...I ran a 6:28 split!

Guess I should sign up for some more races, there is some life left in these leggies :)

What a difference a week can make!

Being sick will really slow a girl down..

Ahh the inevitable winter illness...Well, really, I think its been years since I was sick...so this is the first of quite a while.

Its been going on for almost 2 weeks now, headaches, coughing, sore throat, and lots of yucky phlegm. On the plus side, it seems winter here is coming to a close. We had cold and rain and a tiny bit of snow in December and early Jan...but its been in the 50s and 60s more and more consistently. I think by the end of last February it was spring here. I did see my daffodils peeking up this morning in my front garden! Yeah! Spring is on its wayyy!