23 | July | 2014 | Piper's Run

Training for any race or event requires a lot of dedication, discipline, passion and support from others. You find a training plan, question it a few times, start it and try really hard not to miss any runs. And then you add in kids to that mix = Mother Runner! {Or Father Runner}

I just started my half marathon training plan this week and almost missed a run! I switched day 1 and day 3 because I didn’t want to take a day off running to do strength/stretching workout. And, tonight I am going to a Yoga for Runners workshop so it just worked better to switch the days. Nothing wrong with that.

Yesterday, I had the day off work / meeting at my boss’s house – BBQ, swimming in his pool and my family got to join us. We spent between 2-3 hours in their pool – lots of treading water for me, catching the girls as they jump in the pool and outside in the sun. Hard day at work 🙂 We all crashed when we got home and got ready for Lilly’s soccer.

Saï took Lilly to soccer and I ran a few errands since we have a babysitter for Hilary on Tuesday nights. Poor Hilary hates when I leave her with other people. We also decided yesterday would be the day we’d take Hilary’s dummy (soother) away from her! She’s almost 20 months and we have to do it at some point. She LOVES her dummy – I think it’s harder for me then it is for her.

Once I got home and had Hilary read for bed, the tears started {for her not me}. At this point, I was on my own so I let her cry for a bit {I know, I know…not cool but it’s a parenting decision we’ve made}. I went in to check on her, calm her down and cuddle. She was so tired but seem like she was in another world – even her mouth was mimicking the motion of her dummy in her mouth. I left feeling terrible and called my mom to distract myself – oh and to give her a heads up that she’s going to have to deal with the “no dummy baby” tonight 🙂 Lilly got home late from soccer and we finally got her to bed.

At 8:15, I didn’t think running was a good idea as I was starving so I started to prepare dinner – super late for us. I had a quick conversation with my husband and decided that I needed to run and he’d prep dinner. I had 30 minutes to get in a 5k run and that I did –> 29:04. When I got home, Saï made me a Vega Recovery drink and I helped him finish making our dinner…..we ate at 9:15 pm !

Vegan Creamy Avocado Pasta.

It was the first time I was trying the Vega recovery drink and asked Sai to take a picture for me {as any great blogger would ask of their husband} and he took the picture at the exact time of my reaction! I’m not sure if I liked it at first, ha ha! But I devoured the drink, my pasta and some bread in 10 minutes.