Day Three

OK, sitting at home the night of Day Two, trying to motivate myself for another gym session at the community center and I get an email about a new meetup of my running group.  Some "Running Mamas" are going to be going out the next morning to a trail I like- perfect!  A chance to chat with some friends and get in a good run.  I look through the list of Mamas, there are some that I know run a lot faster than me...but they will have kids in strollers and I will not....so I figure I can hang.  Well, I showed up and I tried, but with limited success.  I ran with an awe inspiring mother of 3 who had her youngest in a jogging stroller.  She went way faster than my comfort zone (11 min miles) and I gasped and gulped but hung in there for almost 2 miles before I had to admit my pain and slow it down or barf.  We eventually split ways (as often happens when kids are in strollers, the toddlers want out, the babies need changed, you name it) - I headed back to my car on my own while a few mamas kept going to run at least 5 miles and another stayed behind near a play structure with her 3 year old.  I made it back to my car  - running a hare shy of 4 miles in just under an hour.  I'm not super proud of that (I could blow that time/distance away a mere 6 months ago), but at least it is done and I still have a little bit of time to go home, shower, work, clean, do laundry, and do whatever else I can manage before I have to get my DD from camp.  Will there ever be enough hours in the day?!?!?