I wrote in to
runningskirts.com and told them why I love my mom for Mother's Day and our story got published on their site.
Plus we won two matching running skirts!
Check out the story
here. (It is close to the bottom of the page - we're the ones with the green race bibs)
I got to meet Cindy from
Runningskirts.com today when I went to pick up my race kit from the Pfizer Health Expo at
Lansdowne Park. She was SUPER nice and told met that she remembered my story.
PS - she has just about the
smokinest body EVER and she just had a baby in November! She was telling me how bummed she was that she could only run the short distances when she was pregnant, and I was impressed to find out that she was running right up to 37 weeks!!
The Expo was fun today, but since I am broke I had no money to buy running goodies. Boo! I did win a free Running Room hat though :) I saw so many good things that I really liked and I wished that I could have spent more time there.
I have to say that the
goodie bags were better last year too - hair elastics and sunscreen last year versus a box of chocolates and some sugar free
Werther's Originals (coffee flavoured!
eugh!) this year. Did I mention that there was a "food court" at the expo, serving those teeny fried donuts covered in powdered sugar? Devils.
I think they should serve those teeny donuts at the marathon finish line instead. :)
I'm not sure how I feel going into this race. I have been thinking about it a lot - probably too much. I have discussed my recent concerns with my running lately, and they have not gotten any better. In fact, the pain is more consistent in my joints (with or without exercise) than it was before. Tylenol Arthritis is my friend.
I was feeling as though if I have to go and run and I cannot run the whole thing, that I will have failed.
Today, as I told someone "Oh I am JUST doing the 5k" I thought - Wait a second.
I'm not JUST doing the 5k. I am DOING the 5k. And whether I have to run or walk, or crawl the entire time, doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if I don't finish, and it doesn't matter how long it takes me.
What matters is that I am healthy enough to even CONSIDER it at this point.
I ran this race last year just as I was becoming very ill. Now I will run this race and I am becoming very healthy again.
Instead of feeling badly that I can ONLY run the 5k (gosh I feel silly for saying that!), or that maybe I can't even run the whole thing (big deal!), I choose to use this race as a benchmark for health, and achievement.
I can run again. And THAT is what matters.