After three full months of training, the half marathon is finally here this weekend. I am running on Sunday and although I have been extremely excited to see how I do time wise with training I am a little unhappy about the weather forecast. It is supposed to be nice, like in the 60's but it looks like it will be raining in the morning. Yuck. I HATE running in the rain. I am hoping that it will clear up and I won't be running 2 hours soaking wet.
My body is so ready for this running to be over. My back is hurting and my knees are hurting. I can't imagine training and running a full marathon. I think my body might crumble into little pieces if I tried to do that.
This may be my last half. I say may because most likely I will want to do it again, but right now I don't have much desire. I am however going to start training for a sprint triathlon. I am really excited about that. I know I can breeze through the running and after some practice and training the biking will be fine too. What I am worried about it the swimming. I need to take a couple swim lessons for adults. I have a problem with coordination when it comes to kicking and breathing and keeping up the swimming. If I could just get some guidance I think I will be okay. I am actually really looking forward to doing a tri because I think it will be much easier on my body and it will be such a rush to finish. My plan is to either do one in July or August. I just need to see how training goes.
Other then exercising, life is as crazy as always. We had a wonderful Passover. I tried to do my first seder, but it didn't go over well. The kids were going crazy that night and seemed to have no interest at all. I poured a glass of apple juice (it is normally wine, but I didn't want the kids to accidentally drink it) for the prophet Elijah, which is part of the Passover seder. Anyway, Samuel has a friend Elijah and he totally lost it because he didn't understand why Elijah was going to come over and get to drink out of a fancy kiddish cup and he couldn't. We had a good 30 minute meltdown about that. When Samuel finally calmed down and I put all the food on the table, he actually became pretty interested in the story of Passover and why we were eating certain things. I hope next year will be better. This was my first attempt at a Passover seder, so I couldn't expect much.
We also celebrated Easter with Jonathan and Laura and the kids. We had a wonderful brunch and an easter egg hunt. All the kids, except Luke participated and it was so much fun. They had a great time. I love having family traditions and I love that my kids are exposed to different aspects of different religions.
Lastly, of course we watched Michigan pull off an amazing win in the NCAA tournament. I don't even care that much of all the basketball stuff, but that was pretty exciting. Dave is looking forward to this weekend and the final four.
I am off to get Simone, she has been sleeping in lately and it has been awesome. Don't know why the boys can't do the same thing, but I will get what I can take.
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