Let's start with the Scotiabank Marathon. My champions page is up and my fundraising page is up! I would really love it if my friends and family could donate to me and support my run :)
You can find the West Neighbourhood House Champions page here
http://www.torontowaterfrontmarathon.com/en/nc/nc3.htm#charity
From there you can click to my page to donate :) A donation of $10 will mean a charitable tax receipt for you! I'm really excited to be running this race and I'm really looking forward to it.
The second part of this is that two of my oldest and best friends got married on the weekend! I want to say a huge congratulations to Linda and Justin on a lifetime of love and happiness. I was so honoured Linda asked me to be one of her bridesmaids.
In terms of running this totally affected my training over the last couple of weeks...and it's been worth ALL of it. I've missed runs because of her bachelorette party (shout out to the #butternuts) and rehearsal dinner and have zero regrets about any of it. I knew that I didn't want to miss my Sunday long run or 14km...the Sunday after their wedding. So I made a conscience choice to watch how much I drank and left at a semi-reasonable hour and I did my run.
Today's run was stupid crazy. The weather was wonderful (unlike last Sunday when I thought I was going to die from heat) the distance was insane. We were told we were going to run 14km and I figured it would be 14.5km or something like that...instead it turned out to be 15.89km...and I wish I was joking. The run was luckily beautiful. We ran through a butterfly garden and by the waterfront. We stopped for a group photo...here's one them...check out the view! It was gorgeous!
The exhaustion I'm feeling as I write this is unreal. In the last 3 days I've gotten a total of 12.45 hours of sleep...that's broken down into 4.45 hours on Friday, 6 hours on Saturday night and a 2 hour nap on Sunday. I'm exhausted. My nap wasn't long enough but I had to wake up otherwise there won't be any sleep happening tonight.
Now that I'm home, showered, napped, etc. I'm nursing a headache, aching muscles and sore feet. I also discovered my first real chaffing experience...under my bra strap. As a girl who needs to wear a bra in life...like I have ZERO option in the matter...the chaffing is highly uncomfortable and I'm not sure how to get rid of it or how to protect it. Anyone have any tips?
Lastly, I want to thank my buddy Warren who was also in the wedding yesterday. At the end of the night he was sharing some reasons who people were awesome. I'm so glad that 1) he didn't tell me I'm an inspiration since he's been running for longer than me and 2) that he actually reads these (HI Warren!!!). He also was so genuine in saying he's proud of me. Although I don't see Warren often he's an awesome guy and I'm lucky to have the woman as a friend.
Alright ya'll...keep running, keep strong, keep hydrated and have fun!
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