Today I had my regular training run scheduled, running 4 minutes walking 1 for 45 minutes. Instead we drove to Las Vegas and I met up with some friends from a message board. We are part of a crazy club that meets once a year in Vegas to run the Las Vegas marathon, the goal is to run 21 consecutive marathons there. Told ya it was a crazy bunch! Anyhow, we met at Niketown inside the forum shops at Ceasars Palace. There is a weekly run scheduled there every wednesday. This was a special event though since one of our Canadian members was on a road trip and swung through for this run! Niketown sponsored it and there were about 20-30 people there. We were given the safety rules and signed the waiver and all that good stuff and sometime after 6 we took off. Im a slow runner so everyone took off and pretty quickly put some distance between me and the boys (who came with me in the stroller) It was a pretty hilly route! I was planning on doing only 3 miles. I ended up hitting two traffic signals back to back so I got stuck a couple minutes behind the rest of the group, but that wasnt a big deal. Im used to being a back of the packer! As I was just beginning to get to the next hilly part I see a yellow shirt coming towards me. I thought holy cow, that was fast! It was our Canadian member Kevin coming back to push my boys in the stroller! He said he had gotten to the top of the hill and it was a tough one so he would come back and give me a hand. He pushed the boys for about the next mile! At one point we passed someone on the side walk and he said something about ‘the family that runs together stays together’ I couldnt help but laugh and tell Kevin he might want to check with his lovely wife first lol! My youngest son was not impressed that someone else was pushing him, but my older son was having a blast! There was a water station at mile 1.5 very well staffed by a Niketown employee and Kevins two daughters who are 8 and 10. Awesome little girls! Kevin went on to run a bit farther and I turned around to head back down the hills (wee!!) Part way down another member caught up to me and asked if she could push the boys. Of course! How fun! We all had a great time. I ran the entire way…so much for walk breaks this time! It just felt really good to be running with other people again, especially in Vegas. I got a fantastic quick work out and visited with everyone afterwards. Today I ate ok, cereal and fruit for breakfast, cottage cheese with strawberries for snack, left over low fat enchilada for lunch and a healthy choice meal for dinner. I thought the HC meal would be really good, it was sweet and sour chicken but I was really dissapointed. It just wasnt tasty at all, it needed a more flavourful sauce, it was really bland. After my run I ate a banana and two granola bars and on the drive up I ate a few peices of dried pineapple.

Posted by Shelley in Whatever on February 28th, 2007 |