Dancing in my New Shoes

Week 13 of 24
Total km's this week: 50

What a great weekend! For many of you this past weekend was a long weekend, 3 days off for living it up. Well for our family it was a bit different. We were business as usual. Jamie was working and I was home with the kids. So what made the weekend so great you ask??? Well on Friday night I headed in to Kamloops to buy my third pair of running shoes, yes that's right my third pair. My feet decided to throw tantrums with the first two pair. Apparently in their old age they are becoming very particular about what goes on them. So with great caution I bought another pair. On Saturday morning I decided to take my shoes for a little test drive (i wish it was as easy as just driving them around). My test drive consisted of pounding the DREADMILL (yes that is spelled right) for one hour(10km) to see if my feet would choose to accept this pair or not. SUCCESS!!! I got through the run without incident.

I spent the remainder of the day focusing on hydrating myself for the 26km run that Julie and I were doing the next day. I will not lie, I am probably the most dehydrated person you will ever meet. Most days my my fluid consumption includes 2-3 cups of coffee in the morning and a glass of milk for dinner. I know it's really bad! The thought of drinking 8 glasses of water a day, leaving the house and the possibility of using a public toilet almost throws me into convulsions. If you haven't guessed, I have a HUGE phobia of public toilets. BLAH!!! However, I know the need to hydrate before a long run is the most important thing I can do. Forget the 8 glasses of water a day, I'm needing about 16 glasses with the distances we are running these days. So bottle after bottle of water I drank. I think I was hitting the washroom every 5 minutes towards the end of the day. THANK GOD I DIDN'T HAVE TO GO ANYWHERE!

Sunday morning came bright and early as Julie, my new shoes & I headed out for our long run. Our run took us down the highway towards Little Fort with a loop around the North Thompson Campground. There were some very long straight stretches that seemed to go on forever. 5km outside of Little Fort is where we finished. I will admit it was highly anti-climatic to finish in the middle of the highway with nothing around. However, Julie and I rocked the run and finished faster than last weeks long run. Yeah for improvement!!! Overall we felt great and I was so proud that I managed to drink a bottle and a half of water during the run. Those that know me know that I usually can't eat or drink anything before or during any runs, so that was a huge accomplishment in my quest to stay hydrated.

Thank goodness Julie has an amazing husband who came to pick us up. Home I went feeling no aggression from my feet, completely hydrated and happy. When I got home Jamie and the kids raced down stairs to give me a hip, hip hooray(god I love them). After some quick high fives off to the washroom I danced in my new shoes.

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