SPRUMMER

We hope you all had a great long weekend and enjoyed the nice weather.  We were both in the city for the long weekend so we had no trouble keeping with our running schedule but the upcoming months with vacations/trips planned will be a challenge to get out there and stick with it.  As the months dwindle down and spring turns to summer the ½ marathon will be here in no time.  

Since we have parted ways our week consisted of:

05/13/14 - We were scheduled to do a 6km run but we decided to do a 5km with our fellow TTPer’s as we hadn’t run with the group in a very long time.  We ran around 7:30 p.m  and found that time to be the perfect time of night to run in the sprummer. The company was great and the conversation flowed and good times were had by all.  It was nice to be out running with other people for a change.

05/15/14 – We ran our 6km route in the trail around Twin 1’s house. The trail is especially nice and quiet because there is work being done on it at the beginning of Lakeside so people think they either can’t get on it or don’t bother if it’s not fully open.  The temps actually felt like it was a “summer” day, running in tank and capris with the sun just a blazing.

05/18/14 – We had our “long run” 8k this beautiful Sunday morning.  We decided to get the run over with at 7:30 a.m. and we made a wise decision because if the sun had of come out it would have been H.O.T.  After our run our JM menu called for some waffles and berries and freshly brewed pot of Mexican coffee.  YUM!

While other people were running the Bluenose or just getting ready to start we pretty much had our run finished and a nice breakfast in front of us.  While we were running we asked ourselves “Why didn’t we just sign up for the Bluenose 10k as we were scheduled to run 8k anyway?”.  The Bluenose 10k was the first race we ever ran 2 years ago and we enjoyed every minute of it but we have no desire to run it again.  When we started running we said that we would run a different race in a different place every year which gives us a chance to travel and run at the same time.  We ran the PEI 10k last year and this year we planned the Army Run Half in Ottawa.  The only repeat run so far will be the Sole Sisters race in June but that is a fun run where we get to eat chocolate while running.  Who wouldn’t do that every opportunity they get?

05/20/14 – We were scheduled to run 5km again as that seems to be all our schedule consists of now on the weeknights which is fine because in the next couple of months we get into the tempo runs and hill training.  We are really looking forward to that (NOT!) but it will be a change and know that it’s important in our training.

We completed the first week of our JM menu and things went pretty well.  This past weekend at the grocery store wasn’t as difficult as last weekend but we still had some trouble and spent 2 hours shopping.  Bok Choy was on our ‘trouble’ list this week as the sign said 'bok choy' but all green leafy things looked the same.  There are still a few things we still haven’t been able to find since last week, ie. cannellini beans (where do they put those cannellini beans???)

This week we have added some weight training to the schedule as well.  We will get more into that next week.  We just need to get into the groove and routine and get our minds ready for both.

The last few runs haven’t been the most funnest.  Twin 2 is starting to get some shin splits every now and again but she just runs through them and they are gone after a few km.  Every once in a while our knees bother us but it’s not on a regular basis nor on every run.  This is the first time we’ve experienced this as we have never had problems before so something we need to look into. 
 

We are talking about MAYBE setting a time goal for the half instead of just finishing but that is something we will think about in the coming months and see how our training progresses.