Ok ok ok, over the last couple of days I have been reminded by a few people that I ‘missed’ some runs recently so I thought I would come clean. Here’s the deal, a month ago I was in Mexico as part of a Reward and Recognition program through my work, pretty sweet deal I know! One of my colleagues who was on the trip is an avid runner and when I say avid I mean she runs almost everyday and not short runs either. She comes into work some Monday’s and if I ask her if she went running her response was usually something like ‘yeah, just 15k or so’. Ho Hum no big deal, juts knocked off a 15k run like it was nothing! Anyway, leading up to the trip she kept saying that we were going to be running every morning when we were in Mexico. At first I was kind of hesitant for a number of reasons. One, she is way faster than me, Two, this trip to me was all about Rest and Relaxation and NOT having to be up at 7:00am because that’s when the kids woke up. I did end up taking my running gear as I eventually realized that I could not pass up an opportunity to run in great weather in the middle of winter!
Her plan I believe was to run everyday and she did, my plan was to run a couple of times….and I didn’t. Now don’t get me wrong I had great intentions. As a matter of fact right after I took the 2nd tequila shot the first night I was still on board with running at 7:00am. Problem was, the 2nd turned into the 3rd and so on. Let’s just say that when she called my room the next day and said I was late, I quickly said I would be there, hung up the phone, jumped out of bed and realized……there was no way I was running that day. I did find the energy to walk to the lobby to tell her that I was not able to physically go. Once that was done it was back to my room for more sleep and a more reasonable wake up time of 11:30. So I guess I can add another excuse to my list…’too hungover.’ Thankfully this is not one that gets used very often.
I did manage to make it out one of the three mornings and four of us had a great run for one hour down the beach. It was awesome, to be on the beach that early in the morning when the only things you had to watch out for were the waves and large beach rakes being pulled by tractors! We managed to avoid the tractors ok but the waves gave us each a fair number of soakers. I am still finding sand in my shoes each time I put them on! That’s one problem I can live with.
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