Spring has sprung...

Joy here...Well after my little bike ride on Sunday, I took Monday and Tuesday off, but Wednesday arrived with temperatures of around +5 C and blue skies, so we opted for going for a run rather than sitting on our bikes in the basement.

You see, now that I've successfully survived the winter (as symbolized by my completion of the 30km race), now I need to turn my attention to the upcoming half marathon in Singapore (May 28, 2011) and then to the main goal of the year, a fall full marathon in Toronto (October 16, 2011).  So as much as I'd just like to hang up my running shoes, sit on the couch, and laze, I really don't think that's much of an option right now.  I want to build momentum.

Which gets me back to the weather.  When the snow finally begins to melt and you can finally feel the sun warm on your skin, suddenly the world looks like a much better place.  Everything seems possible, and the optimism that you had somehow put away under the bed with the dust throughout the winter, comes out and lodges in your heart.  It's a small, little seed of optimism at first, but like all little seeds beginning to sprout in the spring sun, you can feel confident that it, too, will begin to grow and blossom.

And so it was with this newly burgeoning sense of optimism that we went for our Wednesday run.  It wasn't super fast, and it wasn't super easy, but it was a nice, steady run under a late afternoon spring sun when the world seems like a much happier place than it has in some time.  So I'll happily take it.

Here are my run stats:
Ran for a total of 1:33:44 for a distance of 15.15kms with an average pace of 6:11min/km.

Over and out,
Joy