One more week!

I seriously don't post enough on this blog. The problem is that I keep forgetting my passwords. This has to be forgiveable because I have about a dozen passwords I have to maintain in my head, mostly for work. Ug.

One week, three days until the Half Marathon and hell ya, I'm ready. I did my last training long run with my friend, Amer, last Sunday. We ran 18.5 KM along the Marysville Trail. It was very pretty along the river. Amer recently lost 100 pounds over a year period. He is very proud of himself and he's a great runner. Faster than me, I'm sad to say, so I usually slow him down. Though today, I ran 9 km with Amer and JS and tried to keep up with them and found it wasn't too hard. Men are just naturally faster than women. We did an average 6 min per KM pace, though that includes a small walk at the turnaround. Without the walk, we would have been 5.3 min per KM, I'm sure.

My iliacus is sore. No, that's nothing obscene. It's one of my hip flexor muscles. I just stretch it out with some yoga. Three weeks ago, I donated blood. Big MISTAKE. It made me really sick with low iron and high blood pressure. I thought I was going to die, so I went to the hospital and then got me on an ECG machine fast! My BP was 160 over 105. No worries about long term effect. Today, I am 117 over 77. Healthy as a horse, except my aching iliacus.

So I have three, maybe four, short and easy runs left before the big day. Saturday, Tuesday, Wedsnday, and Friday I'll go no longer than 5 km and probably run at half-M pace. Just to keep it light. There are plenty of people from my office registered for the race. Karen, Sandy, Amer, and I are doing the half. Some guys put together a team for the Marathon Relay (each team member does 7 km relay segments for a total of 42 km), and a few registered for the 5 and 10 Km. My workplace is full of active people. I LOVE it.

I might not get the chance to post again until after the race. I will post my results and pictures for you to see. :-)