It has been raining like crazy this last week, including Saturday. The funny thing, though...once we decided we would still run, the rain stopped. It was magical. I'm glad it did, but it was still hella cold out! I knew once I got going, I would warm up and would be unzipping my coat and removing my gloves. Renee stayed home because she was fighting a cold, so it was just me, coach mom, and my sister, Sharla who is training for a walk (5k, I think) in March. I let her know that if she wanted to run ahead, it was fine with me. I think I just like the solitude of being out in nature's beauty, but coach mom wasn't having it! She's very proud to have not let any of her mentee's run/train alone. Coach mom did run ahead of me and we utilized our system of arm up to run/arm up to walk. I got a bit confused with our signals because coach mom had her ipod on. While she was running, she was really grooving to the music and her arms were going all kinds a crazy! I had to remind mom that we have a system and she must be conscious of her arms. LOL!
Anyway....while out on the trail, we're just running and grooving (cuz I had on my ipod, too) I just stopped...because I was tired. Coach turned around to notice I was walking and said with a sheepish grin, 'you were running for three minutes!' I just laughed at her and said, 'what? you're cheating me with my time?! I need to get my OWN watch to keep time!' All was good though because I was jammin to Mary J. Blige & U2 'One'. I was singing so loudly and was really into it! Maybe that's my power song and not the BEPs 'Boom-Boom Pow'. In hindsight, I found that when I was into a jammin song, I was running like crazy vs when the songs were just okay. I need to create some play lists on my ipod so all of my power songs are ready to go.
I still need a new watch, though!
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