A Case of the Runs

EVENT: Los Angeles Chinatown Firecracker 5K DATE: Sunday, February 21, 2016 LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA RACE BEGAN: 08:00 am FINISH TIME: 0:25:08 For the fifth year in a row, I participated in the LA Chinatown Firecracker Run.  It has become a yearly tradition/goal for me to participate in this event.  You can see all of my previous medals in last year's recap .  Since there are 12 animals in the zodiac, I guess I still have seven of these races to do, but luckily, it's always a good time. Speaking of good times, I did pretty well in this particular 5k.  This race kind of snuck up on me, as I've totally fallen out of the groove of racing.  Since I had Baby Tuesday, I walked this 5k last year and ran one in July  that took nearly 28 minutes, which I was already happy about. Between November and mid-January, I barely ran at all.  I was burnt out from running quite a bit in August and September... though by quite a bit I mean up to 5 miles at...

Life right now is well-reflected by this salad-in-a-jar that was my lunch not too long ago. Things are contained, but basic and kind of boring.  Oh, and lazy. I haven't been doing too well on one of my goals for the year, which was to get back to my baseline weight.  I started the year doing really well... and was so close at that time.  But somewhere in that timeframe, I got the stomach flu and then treated recovery like a free-for-all since the holidays were just ending.  Suddenly, all the treats I didn't feel like eating that were still lingering around the house fell victim to my post-illness buffet. Shortly after that, Baby Tuesday had a string of poor nights, some illness related, that left me going for carb-ville.  I'm now required to take yearly A1C tests to monitor my blood sugar, and it didn't really go in the direction I had hoped.  So I know I need to do better, but man. I currently feel (and probably look) really terrible, and all ...