The other week while driving my oldest daughter Sierra home from preschool we had a conversation about monkeys, where they live and the zoo. I promised her we would go to the zoo – she said, "Maybe Oma and Opa want to come too". I explained that they could ’cause they live near the zoo, but it would be hard for Opa ’cause he has a sore foot (calcium deposits in his ankle). Sierra replied, "That’s ok – maybe Opa walk slow… like a turtle!"…
This morning I looked at my 1/2 marathon training plan and realized that sometime during the day I was supposed to run 10K. 10K! I haven’t ran that far since I was pregnant with Sierra! Being the geeky little runner that I am, I headed over to Gmaps Pedometer to plot out my run. Once that was done I printed out my route, packed the baby up in the jogging stroller and away I went. I took special note of where the 1K mark would be and calibrated my Nike + iPod Sport Kit. Fast forward….. I hit the 5K mark (according to my iPod and running route), glanced down at my watch and realize that I’ve been running for an hour. An hour for a 5k? WTF? I’m slow, but geez whiz! Not THAT slow! In pain and tired, I decided to pack it in and head home (another 1k).
When I got home my mind was racing wondering how on earth I could be running that slow, and wondering how long it would take me to run a 1/2 marathon? I’ve run 1 before… In fact I’ve run 7 of them. My slowest time was 2:20, my fastest 1:51. I knew that I was outta shape – but seriously on hour for a 5K – do you realize that translates to a 4 hour 1/2 marathon? So I checked the map…. DUH! I forgot to convert it from miles to Km – I ran 6.16 miles, not 6K! That’s 9.9 K… Whew! I was afraid that Sierra was gonna say, "Maybe mommy run slow…. like a turtle!".
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Saw you post this on Twitter about mucking up your km with miles. Still funny the second time!
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Nicole runs perhaps slower than a turtle. I’d be a 6 hour marathon!
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Not sure what I’m “slow like”, since I don’t run. The girls (on my chest) are not happy with me when I do. Or at least that’s what I tell myself.
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If that was me I would be running slow like a snail…
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I used to be able to run for the bus. Half a block. Only took me a couple of minutes. Then I’d get on the bus and try to catch my breath enough to say thank you to the bus driver who stopped for me. I’m sure I could still do the same
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