adventure run - spring version

spring is here!!!!

(photo from ditmasparkblog.com - photo of the day by nelson)

this weekend's 10 mile run - 65 degree weather.

spectacular!

of course, everyone was out in the park....

i did get a bit testy.

this morning it was 50.

i get confused how to dress for this.

i know thirty and below.

i know 60 and above.

50 is just confusing.

stef and i had a good, hard, quality run this morning.

we did the hill.... that blessed, beloved hill three times.

upon finishing the last hill and working our way around the rest of the loop our cloudy morning turned into spring showers. it wasn't a drizzle.... it was raining. like the sky opened up. adventure run - spring style.

epiphany: i really do love this sport.

there were not that many folks out there this morning.....nor a few weeks ago when temperatures were still hovering the 30s. i have trained and retreated now three times. that would be three babies later, i am still training hard for a race..... i don't have many moments when i think, "what i am doing is hard." i realize being at home with my kids is a hard job.... perhaps the hardest job out there... but i just do it. it is my daily routine. it is my normal.

but running.... there are tangibles.

goals.

training.

races.

discipline.

slumps.

peaks.

progress.

improvement.

(such as you don't always get to see in parenting)

stef, thanks for helping me remember that i am a runner.