Day 44

I was this () close to staying in bed this morning. Kitty sent me a text even before my alarm went off that read “Mom, I don’t feel good.” I was VERY tempted to text her back “okay – we’ll take today off”, but I didn’t. I assured her that it wouldn’t be a hard workout like yesterday, so she was a little more inclined to get out of bed and get dressed.

The friend and CA totally bailed on us this morning, but CL was at the school waiting when we drove up. I explained to her that Kitty didn’t feel well (she has the whole sinus vertigo thing going on), so we wouldn’t be running, but we WOULD be completing at least 3 miles walking. I told her not to wait on us… When we hit the first corner, CL starts to run. She runs, and runs, and runs the whole first mile without stopping. By the time we hit the ¾ mile mark, we can see that she is already running the first ¼ of the second mile. We are not walking slowly (for us) by any means – we finished 3 miles in 48 minutes. Anyway, when we saw her still running, it was the first time in my life that I was actually jealous that she was going to have enough time to complete the (previously aspired to) 4th MILE!

I calculated the very spot that I knew she was going to pass us on the 2nd mile. And when that spot came, she was nowhere to be found. I began to think that she finally quit running and was walking way too slow (and I couldn’t yell at her to “walk faster!”), because she hadn’t caught up to us yet. Just as I turned around for the last time to see if she was gaining any ground on us, she pulls in front of us IN HER CAR! She said she had had enough – she ran the whole first mile and half the second and she was done.

WHAT!!!!! IT’s only been 26 minutes!!!!!!!

Here I am jealous that she had the time to get through the 4th mile and jealous as hell that she actually ran the ENTIRE 1st mile – and she is done! I’m sooooo disappointed (and yet secretly relieved that she is imperfectly human after all that running (at once!)…) Yes, I know, it wasn’t like she was running 26 miles without stopping like thousands of people can do, but I am working on just being able to run 1 mile (much less the 3 I need to finish the 5k) without stopping – and she can already do that. Of course it helps that she just probably graduated college last year or something maybe high school – she is A LOT younger than, ummm, ME…j/k! (But, she is closer in age to Kitty than to me – I just thought I would throw that out there….)

The girls and I became VERY aware that our mad conditioning skills are only a little more advanced than an elementary fitness test – thanks CL! If it takes us adding an extra workout in the evenings for the next 4 weeks, WE WILL be running the ENTIRE 5k – mostly – maybe half – we’ll see.