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Today we have a picture of some of the Library books our family currently has out of the Toronto Public Library. To be fair most of them are my books, but the top two are for the kids. They headed to the library yesterday after school with their Nan and each picked out a book and took out on Jacob’s card.

Today we have a picture of my little girl snuggling up for the night with her favourite pillow.

Sunday I took to the streets to compete in my second Half Marathon. The weather was nice and cool, and thankfully the rain held off. Running through the downtown and along the waterfront gave the race a feel of familiarity that I didn’t have during the mm. though having not really looked at the route before I did have a few surprises along the way. Finishing in the heart of the Financial district
. It was also great to finish the race in the heart of the city.

going into the race I was confident that my training would propel me to a quicker finish then last time, unfortunately it didn’t work out that way. I finished on 2:12:55 more than two minutes slower than in Mississauga. It has me wondering if I didn’t do enough training leading up to the event or if that it was a ‘flat’ course cost me the time. Mississauga was a downhill course, and I think I didn’t appetite how much a help that was. Of course RunKeeper reported that I set a personal record for ‘Biggest elevation climb’ during the run makes me question how flat it really was.

I know it was probably a mixture of the two but considering how sore I still am today, 2 days after the run, I might have to put more blame on training. Usually after a long run I like to follow-up the next day with a short run, but last night I just wasn’t up to it. So I think regardless how sore I am I will have to get out to-night. Probably just for a slow 5 or 6 km. I need to continue with the focus I found when I sat down at the end of September and planned my training for the last two Weeks before the race. At the time I set out an ambitious schedule, one that I followed for the first week but pulled back from a bit the second week. But one I think that was good for me.  As I ran on Sunday I kept thinking I really needed to stay that focused on my training, not just on the races.

I really liked having my planned runs spelled out for me, being able and look back at what I had recently run and what I was about to run was good motivator. So I think once I figure out what I will be doing with my training I will continue that, though perhaps I should look at adding some automation to the process. It was a pain to manually update the list after each run.
Continue reading “Recovering… and Looking forward”

Today I set out to compete in my second Half-Marathon. I finished in 2:12:55 a little slower than my first marathon back in may (POD: Half-Marathon Day (2:10:32)). The course for the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon was a flatter course then the Mississauga Marathon, so I’ll blame that for slower speed.  In addition to running for the challenge of running, I was also running for my aunt-in-law Debbie who passed away in January. She walked the 5k last year, so this year Lynn, Dan and I participated in her memory. I’m working on a post about the future of my running, and more thoughts about today’s run. For now I wanted to share the pictures and my time. So stay tuned.

Continue reading “POD: Half-Marathon Day (2:12:55)”

Today I finished the last of Monday’s bird. There is something nice about making a pot of soup from scratch.

Today I have a picture of my little girl trying to get on Jacob’s bike and take it for a spin… I think she’s still a little small for that.

Today we celebrated thanksgiving with Melissa’s family. It was at Nana and Papa’s house but Melissa and I made the cooked. Well Melissa cooked and I helped. It was a great day and the kids enjoyed playing outside while Papa and I worked on building a ramp on the front of their house.

Continue reading “POD: A second Thanksgiving”

Today the kids and I headed out to my cousin’s house for a thanksgiving dinner. Today’s picture is the kids having a bit of a snooze while we headed over there. It was great to spend the afternoon with family and good food. I want to thank Irene and George  for having us. The kids and I really enjoyed it.

Continue reading “POD: Thanksgiving Dinner”

Today Melissa, Violet and I headed out to the super market to get some of our Thanksgiving dinner. While walking to the store, Violet wasn’t up to walking, she climbed into our bundle buggy, and snapped today’s picture of the day.

I know that over the past month I’ve used a lot of pictures of Jacob skating for my picture of the day. And today I am again, though to be honest it’s not the photo that I really want to share. It’s the video, it’s the first time that I’ve seen Jacob skate backwards. The whole lesson tonight was amazing to watch. He tried hard to keep up with the other skaters, and most of the time he did just that. It was great to watch, and as the class was ending and I saw him skating backwards I knew I needed to capture the moment.