ABC's of Me!

Since theres no running this weekend (Gee darn! and with all the fresh snow we got) I figured I'd might as well jump on the bandwagon.

Age: 28 (birthday in April!)
Bed Size: Queen
Chore You Hate: Washing floors
Dogs: not yet, but in the next couple years probebly
Essential Start to Your Day: Coffee
Fave Colour: Pink
Gold or Silver: Silver and/or white gold
Height: 5'2''
Instruments: haha no
Job Title: I've been deemed the Cruise Director
Kids: Bug 5(turns 6 on Friday) Trouble 4, Shorty 12 (Thats my step-daughter who within a year will be taller than me :( )
Live: Toronto, Ont
Mom's Name: Debbie
Nicknames: Jess, Jessie, MOM!!!
Overnight Hospital Stays: When the boys were born and Trouble was at Sick Kids
Pet Peeve: Slow and late people
Quote from a Movie: This just made me realize I don't watch many movies at all.
Right or Left Handed: Right handed
Siblings: Older Brother, younger step sister
Time You Wake Up: Weekdays 7, weekends closer to 8
Underwear: yes
Veg You Dislike: Brussel Sprouts
What Makes You Run Late: Children
X-Rays You've Had Done: Dental
Yummy Food You Make: My apple pie is amazing!
Zoo: Giraffes are my fav.

Foto Friday

So we've become quite the Lego fans at our house lately. We even each have a little Lego person.

This morning it turned into this.


Thats my Step-daughter cheering for Bug as he wins a race, Hubby waving the crossing line flag. Trouble's legs don't separate so we'll pretend hes running.

Anyone else notice I'm in last? My form is all sloppy too apparently.

Three Thing Thrusday!

1. We sent a total of 8 canned goods with Bug to Beavers last night. I had 6 comments and the boys each wanted to pick something out as well. We'll see next week how well the whole section did (in our section there are beavers, cubs, scouts, venturers, and rovers spanning ages 5-26)

2. This weekend Bug and Hubby are going camping! Ok well they'll be in a cabin along with the rest of the Beaver troop (or is it lodge?). So that means Trouble and I are on our own. I'm actually looking forward to it since Trouble doesn't get much fun one on one time with me. Usually our one on one stuff is doctor appts or speech therapy. You know the boring stuff that has to get done because its the rules, not for the fun of it. I've got a couple ideas in mind and we'll see what he picks.

3. Now because half of our family is going away and I usually do my long runs on the weekends I had to get it in either today or tomorrow. Apparently roughly 2km into my run I decided it was going to be today. I went into it thinking we'll see. When I got to the road where I would have turned to do a 6k I last minute decided to keep going. so long run of 10k done! Tomorrow I'll do 5k and take it easy.

I've been thinking of moving my week around so my long runs are done while the boys are in school. I have 3 hours of little boy freedom and I'll be at the most over just 2 hours for my longest run before the half (barring any injuries). This would completely open up my Sundays where I'd be doing my shorter tempo runs then.

I didn't want to

Really I didn't.

I have no desire this morning to go running. I was tired, I apparently didn't wash my favourite long sleeve shirt yesterday like I thought I had.

Every part of me said stay home. Relax. Its not a big deal to run 3 days this week instead of 4.

So I made a deal.
I'd get dressed up.
I'd get out the door.
I'd give it a go.

And if I felt like crap after 1km I'd come home.

Well it felt great. There was basically no winds. It was cold but I easily warmed up nice. I had some great paces.
1km- 6:19
2km-6:08
3km-6:12
4km-6:54 (ok this one had lots of weaving around people and stop lights)
5km-6:19
6km-5:38 (!!!!!!!!)

I've been feeling so slow since I started back up again after the leg thing. I gave up on the chance at a PR at my half. I basically still have and am hoping to at least keep it near my first half time of 2:12. But this run helped me realize that I'll be back to the old normal of 6:00/km pace. I'm not going to be slow (to me) forever.

And to think I almost didn't go.

New Song!

Hey you

I hope everyone had a great long weekend! or regular weekend depending on where you are.

We stayed at home and played with lego and did some baking. (Ok I did some baking and the kids played with lego) I did manage to get my Sunday run in. My calf was a bit sore so I rolled it. Apparently since I do most of my running during the day while the kids are in school they don't really see me roll. They found my little noises from that quite funny.

Currently my house smells like wood. Hubby is in charge of a project for Bug's Beaver camping weekend. They are making Inukshuks so hes cutting the wood. The beaver troop is going to leave them like markers when they go on their hike. They leave on Friday and its just me and Trouble till Sunday afternoon. So the plan is to run my long run on Friday while the boys are in school so I can get it in without having to hire a babysitter.

I think its catching.

This is the art that Trouble made. Its about what you like doing with your family since this Monday is Family day and we here in Ontario and couple other provinces get 3 day weekends.

Apparently I got an other runner in the making.