Some weeks are just best left behind ...

Wow, what a week! Holly and I did the Shamrock Run with a group of our best Aim High black belts and candidates. I see now what they mean by 'change the way you look at things and the things you look at change'. You know how in the Tom & Jerry cartoons they have an angel sitting on one of Tom's shoulders and a devil on the other? Well, when it came to the Shamrock Run, the devil was sitting on my one shoulder telling me that we had to get up way too early to catch the MAX train at 7am, after getting to bed way too late because we had friends over the night before and they picked a fine time to throw daylight saving time in there. Plus we had to stand in the rain for an hr and a half before our race started and I'd been trying to fight off a cold for a week already. Then I had to run 3 miles in the rain, got soaking wet feet & shoes, it was freezing cold, it took forever for the MAX train to pick us up afterwards and all I wanted was a hot hot shower and a nap! But... the angel was sitting on my other shoulder making me laugh at the MAX conductor/driver when he said, "and for all of you that decided to make your goal this morning to take this earlier train to beat the rush of people participating in today's Shamrock run... You've failed... So everyone please make room for boarding passengers... Thank you!". We rode into town with a fully loaded train of people all dressed in green and ready to run. Suddenly, it started sounding like a fun idea. I took Holly's pic with a guy with a green and black face when we got off the train, and off to Waterfront Park. It was raining by then, but they'd set up lots of tent thingy's for people to stand other & stay dry and I brought hand warmers with me. The nice thing about running the 5k is that I just had to tell myself that Brandy's already had us consistently run farther than that, so it's all good. The hills sucked, but I managed. Then they have all the promotional food items, magazines, music, and everything after we were done, it was great! Then Holly discovered Pioneer Square and we hit Starbucks because we were pretty thrashed by then. Our whole group found each other again on the train and off to home we went. My goal this year was simply to finish... new things freak me out... But then I saw you get to see where you stood in the rankings of all the other participants in your age group... Hmm... competition? Next year: Do this again, but I've already "just finished" the run.... Next time, I want to make it a race. ;)