This weekend I had two good runs. Saturday morning, I did my long run, 20km this week. I figured out a loop around our neighbourhood that's exactly 10km to our door, so I ran that twice and stopped in between loops at home for a couple sips of water and bites of a banana. This run was surprisingly OK. I took a LOT of walk breaks, especially during the second loop, but still finished with a respectable 9:08/mile pace. Lately, I've been finding that listening to podcasts helps the time pass quickly, so I'll do an episode or two to get my run started and then bring it home with some tunes. 

Sunday was the Frostbite 5-Miler race, which was originally supposed to happen back in February, got delayed to March (due to weather) and got delayed again to April 19 (due to weather). Have I mentioned we had a terrible winter? This was my first five-mile race. It's a small local event capped at 250 participants. The start is a five-minute drive from home, so it was nice to not have to plan ahead and leave the house super early - I got there about half an hour before the start time and it took all of 30 seconds to pick up my bib, so I had plenty of time to kill beforehand. 

The course is described as "rolling hills" and I think that's accurate! Still waiting on the official times to be posted, but I think I finished somewhere around 41 minutes, and I came in 36th place overall, whatever that means :) At the end of the course I claimed my snowman medal (!!!) and a bowl of baked beans and an apple. The medal and the beans alone made this one well worth running! 

Usually I HATE race photos of me, but this is the one exception. I'm all smiles because I'd just passed Pete and Eli on the route - you can see them in the background :) Note to self - smile when you see the course photographer (there's a reason I'm not sharing any of the other race photos).