Get Set...GO!!!

I SURVIVED!!!

Okay, so it was only 2 miles - but that's 2 mile further than I have run in the past 2 years. Not an easy feat for someone coming off childbirth (okay, that was 16 months ago), and a pretty serious injury (and yes, I know that I have been brace free since October).

Instead of milking the childbirth and injury, I think that it's time for me to say NO EXCUSES!!! I can and I WILL do this! Hello, our Honorees have/are currently going through chemo and radiation for cancer...I sure as heck can get out there and run 2 miles!

I actually felt pretty good throughout our team run at the Palo Alto Baylands. It was a beautiful day to be outside with my teammates and ever better as I saw some familiar faces from previous teams. Ed, Jocelyn, Dave, Winnie, Wayne, Kathy, Jennifer, Sue, Janica.....so much fun that folks keep coming back to TNT season after season.

Next up....track workout on Tuesday night at Stanford. I actually enjoy track workouts, so I am looking forward to this. The challenge at the beginning of the season is that Coach Terry throws in a hefty core workout and we don't actually do much running at the track. My core certainly needs a workout, so this should be interesting and I am sure that I will feel it on Wednesday morning.

Tomorrow I'm heading to the gym to get in some laps at the pool as well. After a week off from the gym (my little guy have been sick so he can't go to their Playcare Center while I work out), I am really looking forward to getting into the water. I wish that I could say that swimming helps me relax my brain too, but I swear that my brain goes on overdrive when I am swimming...too much to think about.

Here's to a great week of workouts in preparation for next weekend's run in San Mateo!