So Proud of Mary Ellen!!

Okay - well - for someone who assured me she would NEVER run - Mary Ellen has for once not kept her word. Well - this would be the second time she didn't keep her word. The first time was when she ran the Niagara Falls 5K last fall. :)

I had made my 10K goal for 2010 at the Oakville Race so I offered to run the 10K race with her. She took me up on it. I was happy about that as I wasn't in the mood to try to beat my last time which took me 5 years to finally get. But I also hasn't run long in about 2 weeks so I was worried about the distance. I keep forgetting CrossFit is the ideal cross training and it will cover my missed runs - It is making me stronger and just like tempo running with weights mid week. haha.

Okay - it was a cool night but a beautiful night for a run. Us and a couple thousand of our friends.

A little messy getting to the start but the stars aligned and we got there with plenty of time to spare. The planets aligned for us.

Mary Ellen's first goal was to finish and she figured she would be about 1:15:00. I thought differently on the time but just went with it. Her dream goal would be about 1:10 - I figured that is where we would be closer too but I was just going along for a run.

Keeping her back at the start is work enough . Really Mary Ellen - all these people that are passing us - half of them we will see again as you pass them since they went out too fast and have nothing left in the tank. You are going to finish strong. Pacing - all about pacing.

We kept a steady pace until about 5K and then it was time to start working and start feeling a little bit uncomfortable. :)

6K - 7K was just a bit uncomfortable.

7K to 8K we started to pick people off and continued to increase our pace and picking until 9K. About 8.25K we took a QUICK walk break - a sip of water and 3 big breaths. Lets go. We just went and picked and picked and picked and I just pushed her. She was either going to go faster or swear at me. She went faster (I knew she would).

She crossed at 1:09:15. All goals achieved. :)

She did amazing and I'm proud of her. She did all her running and training on her own and stayed with it.

Next.....15K in Toronto in August. Lots of time to get the distance in there and build the confidence for hte 15K distance. (I better start training).

Way to go Mary Ellen!!