Happy New Year

I thought that the ideal way to ring in 2010, the year where I will run a sub 4-hour marathon, was to do it running! So I headed out to the Running Room Resolution Run for a quick 10k before heading out to my sister's new year's eve party (where I had pre-negociated a shower upon arrival, thank you very much ;)

I didn't wear the official race jacket since I wanted Alex to spot me in the crowd and I knew that would be what everyone else would wear, hehehe.
I wore instead my trusty Chinese running outfit that I think is great and needs lots of showing off.
Can you tell I'm in celebration mode already?

The course was up and down colonel by, starting from Pretoria bridge.
While the temperature wasn't that cold at minus 3, the falling snow accumulated on the ground and the dry patches were pretty few and far between. I did a pretty decent time at 51:05 given the condition of the fun run which wasn't chipped.
Thanks to everyone who showed up to volunteer, cheer or run. This was a great way to kick off the last evening of the year and decade!

Now that the run is over, on to the real party. I hope you guys and gals will all ring 2010 in style and I wish you everything you desire and deserve for 2010: health, success, happiness and reaching all your goals and dreams. I'm sure we've all got a lot to be thankful for and accomplishments to celebrate from 2009 as well as many new challenges and things to look forward to in 2010 and beyond!

Happy New Year!

18m30s Swim and Play

I swam really well today with some nice tumbles. I think I invented my own tumbling technique today, however it seemed to work really well with my breathing and I came up in the right swimming position so I was happy with my performance. I sticked around at the pool for another 20 minutes of breast strokes and freestyle to ramp up my endurance.

After the swim and some shopping, we went to see Robert Lepage's Blue Dragon. It was very interesting and thought provoking on a number of subjects such as interpersonal relations, love, freedom and parenting.

Tomorrow is shaping up to be mostly a rest day. I say mostly because I'm sure I could find some fitness description to ceramic tile setting at my mom's and call it stretching or strength training.

I'm hoping I can find some time this easter weekend for a long run. I haven't done anything high impact in a while and I'm starting to itch for some intense action :)