PEI was beautiful. Impossibly so! I didn't get much running in I'm afraid. I spent six days in a car eating mostly fast food. Then camping was filled with steak and s'mores. I did manage to get out once and get some red dirt on my shoes. I don't know how far I went. It was probably at least 2.5K. I didn't want to come home. I feel like I've left part of myself there. I'm hoping we can go back again next summer.
I'm getting back on track with my running. I had basically had 3 weeks off with the trip and all the planning ect. I was surprised at how much conditioning I had lost! I could barely puff my way through 2K!
I'm back on track now though. I've been getting out at least 3 times a week. Today I expanded my route. It's 4K long. I still had to walk part of it but I'm thinking that the extra distance, whether walking or running is good. I want to be in condition to enter a 5K race and not be laughable by next spring. Which probably means that I need to join a gym so I can still run even through our brutal SW Ontario winters. I'm going to have to find out from some other local runners how they stay in shape through the winter.
I've dl'd some more music onto my mp3 player. I find singing along to the song really helps to take my mind off of how much my legs are burning. My favourite songs to run to right now are Uno Dos Tres Quatro ( I can't remember who it's by), Pork and Beans by Weezer and Disco Stick by Lady Gaga.
