Three's Company

Nomi says,

Finally........Joy is back!!!!!

After a year away,
Good times are here to stay,
Well... till she leaves again anyway:)

Having company makes a big difference in training. There's someone on hand to compare notes with, to ask for advice or to complain to when everything hurts. And there's safety in numbers too. More often than not, attempts to run have been aborted at the thought of driving to the park alone at 5.30am when it's pitch black outside and the mind imagines all sorts of unsavory life forms hiding behind bushes just waiting to cause mischief....So with Joy around, if a plan to run is made, it is materialized.
Running alone, sometimes takes an effort. If a definite plan is not made, it often gets cancelled. Lulu had also suffered a knee injury and had to take a break from training. So, the preparations for the up coming race...in the words of my little girl..' pretty lame"... Sometimes, all i ran was two or three times a week, 10 kms at the most to prepare for the half marathon. I did no other exercise in between and had sort of slipped into a semi-comatose state when it came to training.

Joy's present to Nomi

So with Joy back, it was like a breath of fresh air. She had mad a little book of our experience and progress from running a 10km race to a half marathon. Her spirit and enthusiasm was infectious. So, the training for the up coming race began again. Lulu recovered sufficiently to join us and we tried to run a 90 minute run on weekends as a group, with a few other individual shorter runs interspersed during the weekday. And it was mostly just fun:) But frankly, none of us trained like we did one year ago for our very first race -  the 10km race. But then, most of us had moved along. We were aiming for a longer race and this upcoming half marathon in May was just an interim race. With the support, encouragement from girlfriends...the sky's the limit....

Girlfriends rock!!!!!