Oh dear…..that long run was rough!

This morning after I dropped the girls off at day care I drove and met my running partner, Krystol. We had planned to run 15-16k along some of the route we’ll be running at the Valley Harvest Half Marathon in October. I’ve only run 8k of this route before with a friend and wanted to get out a few more times on it.

It’s hilly. Big hills, little hills and LONG-for-what-seem-like-eternity-inclines that get you. Well…they sure got me today.

We met around 8:30 and were good to go. Some of the hills slowed us down but we kept going until the 8k mark. We both took our GU’s. I had salted caramel…not too bad. I should have picked an apple behind me to eat it with…it would have made an awesome combo!

Once we started running again we both had super wobbly legs. I mentioned it to Krystol because I was actually concerned I might fall over….they have never felt like that before. Guess we stopped too long. {note to self: on race day eat your GU while you run}.

I was having a hard time with this run and needing to walk A LOT more than I ever have. It was starting to get really hot and humid and my body wasn’t too happy. We kept going, walking when needing to and pushing up the hills as we could.

Though my training plan had me only running a 15k long run this weekend, I really wanted to do 16k. What’s one more kilometer, right? The reason is, we are both racing next weekend at the Maritime Race Weekend – Tartan Twosome. We have a sunset 5k Friday night and a sunrise 10k. I’m not sure if I am going to tag on another 6k after the 10k or not or just run 16k the next day. {Any suggestions runners}

We finished the run, stretched and took some after photos. I had some major boob sweat which brought me back to when I was breastfeeding the girls. Unattractive yes, did I care, heck no! We went into the local farmers market and bought plumbs, corn on the cob and some local bacon – yum!

Oh and some fun bloopers of us trying to take a selfie before we ran…the sun was a little bright. Fun times!

And since the girls are in day care today {I’m still on vacation}, I managed to get groceries; eat a meal slowly and am about to fold laundry. I can’t believe I am that excited about doing laundry on my own.

Let the weekend begin!

Anyone running today/this weekend?

Ever have boob sweat like this? 

Favourite GU or similar product?