Monday's scheduled run was put off due to scheduling conflicts (yes we are working mom's so we just have to be flexible). I really wanted to get three runs in this week so we put today's run on the calendar after 5:30am boot camp on Monday. We were also determined to stick to it! Saturday's 5K is Run 4 Recovery
Fast forward to today and it's raining, and 40 degrees and downright miserable outside. When I texted Amber this morning I said something like "rock your day because we are running rain or shine". Well it definitely wasn't shining as we met behind the church at 4pm. After a quick change in the car (note to self: I need tinted windows) - we set out following the course map I had downloaded on my phone. I had even studied the satellite map because the cemetery has way too many road choices. Needless to say - once in the cemetery we got turned around. We hit a pretty major downhill in mile 1 and all I could think was good Lord - this is going to be a doozy of an uphill on mile 3. Mind you - my language was more in the R rating and not this PG-13 blog. Amber yelled "I quit" once spotting the hill's decline and I reminded her that our runs go in the blog. A few stops for clothing adjustments - map readings and family texts - we did less running than we should have but got in our mileage.The goal was to stick to the course and run our intervals for this week (3 sets of 18mins). Aren't goals great to have :) We spotted a lake soon after entering the cemetery which ended up not being THE lake on the course map. We found the signage funny - no swimming, no fishing and no ice skating - definitely noted!
We spotted geese that looked pretty sedate, dodged geese poop and I saw a large adult white tail disappear into the woods. We had quite the running commentary (no pun intended) on gravestones, names and......what did I find? A rather large memorial to a "Delahunty". Absolutely no relation but it made me wonder! Creepy on Halloween too!
Brian sent the picture off to his mom to do some investigating. On the way out of the park we saw several black squirrels. Unfortunately being as dark as it was - and as dark as they are, my pictures didn't come out. A Fort Mitchell resident commented that they have a lot of them in their community and other visitors are just as curious and amazed by them. I felt like quite the tourist, taking pictures of squirrels - couldn't help myself - plus we were on the cool down walk back to the cars.
I have an amazing running buddy to brave the weather and hills with me. We have a long way to go on our running journey - but we have come a long way too. We have our Turkey Trot 10K in our minds and by golly we will complete it - and run it STRONG!
Tomorrow's run is with the Goodridge "Girls on the Run" group for their practice 5K. Thanks for reading! ~Geniene
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