Rain go away!

Ok, just for tonight. We really want to head to Sens Mile/City Hall for the game tonight to cheer outside, but I don't want to do it in the rain. I tend to get sick lately if I am out in the rain for hours! Go Sens Go!

Anyway, it's been a huge week. My school assignment last weekend took HOURS to do. Way more than I expected. I then had to prep for my first test in this class. On the upside, no homework this past weekend!

Had some great runs in the past week. The best would have been Friday's 5k. While it was stinkin' hot and humid (33C), I was able to run my best pace of 2007 since re-starting my run program, at 7:07/km. I've been running 10/1 the past few weeks, and really wanted to run it straight through, but I didn't have it in me. Just too hot, and heart rate was getting too high. So I ran 18 mins, walked one, and ran another 15. Ya man. It rocked.

Saturday I decided while watching the game it would be a great time to start strength training, yet again. I hate it, but I did it.

Lesson learned, I don't do well when strength training before my 'long run'. Sunday's scheduled run was 8k. After such a great run on Friday, I expected great things, especially since it was much cooler, at 25C. From the get go my legs were heavy and tired. It took fortitude to not walk before my 10 minutes were up. I messed up my Garmin somehow, so I couldn't see my pace, which was liberating in one way, because I don't think I could have pushed it much harder! It never got easier, as I had thought it would, but it also never got any worse. I thought I had a headwind on the way out... wake up call, that was nothing compared to the way back. Oh well. Average pace 7:31/km, but my heart rate was at 150, which is outstanding for me this year.

After my run I walked for a bit to cooldown. I usually do 1km, but I was so wrapped up in my iPod and the ducklings, that I walked 2.65km. :)

I feel great today, no soreness whatsoever. I know tomorrow's run is going to be great. Now if only this rain will go away, I can go stand in a crowd of 20 000 for 6 hours!

Busy times

Wow, it's been busy!

I'm at school now Tues/Thurs nights, and prof does like to give homework! We also had a long weekend and wow, it was lovely! The weather was a little cool, though I still got a mild sunburn, and it rained on Sunday, but we still spent a ton of time planting the veggie garden, doing some spring cleaning, and hanging with the nice neighbours. So nice :). Freakshow neighbours hung several more bags of dog crap off our side of the fence again, so we gifted them a garbage can and put them in it, on their side of the fence. These people refus to speak with us, so it's not like we can tell them they are being disgusting. Sure enough, Monday morning they emptied the garbage can, put it behind their fence, and hauled away the dog poop. Can't wait to see if they gift us again this weekend. Sigh.

Anyway, this was the last weekend of the Tulip Festival. While my tulips are in peak, most of those by the canal were done. But it was still gorgeous and so many people out! My daughter and I went to the canal on Saturday, me for my 7k, she to read under a tree. My goal was 10/1, and I was successful for the first 4 repeats. Then I had to walk when my heart rate hit 165. On the upside, my average heart rate over 5k is dropping, as is my time - I took 30 seconds off the week before. After my run, my daughter and I went for a cooldown walk for 2 more kms. It was lovely out. We came home in time to catch the last period and the OT win for the Ottawa Senators! Wooooooot! We will be facing Anaheim for the Stanley Cup, our first time in modern franchise history. Sooooo excited!!

In other news, running this week is going well, though my knee is a little sore. I'm not in the least bit concerned, because it hurts every year at this time. No idea why.

Better get to work!

Date Night

Steve and I have very little time together. He's working 6.5 days a week getting the new store set up, I'm working weekdays and schooling two nights a week.

Yesterday we threw my brother a birthday bbq in our new outdoor living room! It's awesome, but darn it, we woke to a temp drop. Boo-urns. We reached a high of 13C and in the sun under blankets it wasn't bad! Ok, it was, so we took it inside after an hour. But the patio was a hit!

After the mass exodus (it was hockey night in Ottawa), KT went out, and we decided to have date night. Yes, we'd miss part of the hockey game, but it's too stressful to watch the first two periods. Really.

We decided on The Notebook. All we knew is that it was a love story. We thought, woooo cuddles in the future! Um, what we didn't think of was that we'd spend the last half hour of the film sobbing. Snot is not conducive to cuddles. So we watched the last period of the game, and with fear we both had 'the feeling'. Sure enough, within 5 seconds of the horn, Buffalo scored. We continued to cry. Argh!! We won in 2nd OT, thank goodness. How I can watch the last period and OT, and not find that stressful is beyond me.

I woke this morning feeling all stuffy from crying. Not the best in date nights! Except for the win, that was totally worth it.