Sweetheart Failure
Remember a few weeks ago when I announced my February race for the Runelation? Well apparently the stars were lined against me and that 5k. This was a Sweetheart Fail.
Failure #1:
The Sweetheart Shuffle was actually Sunday February 12 and not Saturday. Good thing I decided to check out the deats Thursday afternoon. Totally would have shown up on the wrong day. I even marked it on ALL my calendars incorrectly.
Failure #2: See red dot? See blue dot? That’s how far OUT of the way I was at 11:55am on Sunday. Although it was awesome for me to look up all the race stuff on Thursday (and even write it all down- including directions-in my planner), it did me little good when I typed in “Middletown YMCA” into my iphone Sunday morning. When the directions came up I thought “that doesn’t look right” and searched for Greater Miami Valley YMCA Middletown. Brought up the same location so we went with it. As we drove past the correct exit my stomach did a little knot and I said to Adam “I swear, that’s the exit we want- but the phone says otherwise”. I mean in my phones defense it did take me to a YMCA, just not the one I wanted.
We had plans to head to Ikea after the race because I had some items to return. At this point we were 15-20 minutes too far south from the race that was about to start and 5-10 minutes north from Ikea. Ikea won. I was bummed.
But my weekend was a complete loss!
Since the Sweetheart Shuffle was Sunday, I still joined in on the Virtual Run for Sherry Arnold on Saturday. Printed my bib, threw on my sneaks and hit the treadmill. I completed 5 miles at an even 10 mile pace. I am not sure the last time I ran 5 miles so I know I needed to push myself. Anytime I would hear my inner voice whine about my legs being tired or that I was hot, I thought of Sherry. I thought of what goal she set to accomplish the morning she went missing. I thought about what races she might have wanted to do this year. I thought about her husband and children. I thought about her friends and family. I thought about her small community. I thought about everyone else who was running today for Sherry. And then told my legs they weren’t allowed to be tired.
Now to pick my March race.. I would really love to do some sort of St Pat’s Day race. We’re planning to spend St. Patrick’s Day in Cleveland since it’s a Saturday. I haven’t been able to locate a scheduled race in the Cleveland area. Which I guess make sense since everyone is Irish in Cleveland on St Patrick’s day. Who’s going to do a 5k when there is green beer to drink and shenanigans happening downtown?
