Very busy weekend. On Friday night, Brooke and I went north to spend some time at our friends’ cottage on Mary Lake in the Muskokas. We’re part of a team of ten people from our church who are going to Poland for two weeks this summer to assist a Polish Baptist church run an ESL programme. The cottage trip was to do some team-building and planning. The weather wasn’t great, and the blackflies were biting, but we ate well and enjoyed each other’s company before coming back on Saturday evening.
Sunday morning was the Nissan Challenge 5K. We’d been training for the past 10 weeks and were very excited to be running our first race. However, I think being out of our regular schedule made us a little sluggish. Plus, we’d both been bothered by some nagging injuries. In my case, I wanted to rest my sore knee and so hadn’t run since last Monday. As a result, neither of us felt we were in top form. Nevertheless, we both accomplished our goals. We both wanted to finish in less than 30 minutes, and Brooke wanted to finish without any walk breaks. I finished in 29:03 and Brooke in 29:28. Look for us in this list of results (hint: I was 259th, and Brooke was 272nd). Both of us feel that we’ll be able to better that, maybe even by our next race.
Speaking of which, why don’t you go ahead and click the cute little graphic over there on the right, you know, the one for the Pride and Remembrance 5K, which we’ll be running on June 28?
In other news, I may have some very good news on the job front, possibly within the next day or two…(!!!)