What is going on…

After a race and all the hard training that leads to it, it is recommended to take a couple of days off to let your body recover. When you push your body to extreme work-outs, lots of muscle fibres break down. These fibres need to recover, rebuilt themselves. The new fibres are stronger, faster and more resistant but to be able to let this happen, you do need to give your body a break. Last week I took two days off of my training. Now that the resting is over I need to start thinking about my upcoming events: on July 14th I will be running Sea Jane half marathon in Seattle and on August 10th I will run Sea-Wheeze, a Lululemon sponsored half marathon race in Vancouver. So this is a pretty busy period, with one race after the other.

Yesterday morning we went out for a supposedly 13k run, but the heat was so hard on us that we cut it to 11.5K. We are used to running on cold weather, and although I love the summer and the heat, I can see that it takes a toll on my performance. While running we were dreaming of a swimming pool to jump in or someone washing a car or sprinkling the garden, but none of the above. We even ran by a park to get water from a water fountain and it was broken! I don’t even want to think about next Sunday, when we have to run 18k and not to mention the Sunday after that one, when it is the actual race.

Here are a couple new pictures that I got from last weekend’s race:

My animal lover note: I found the perfect way to race more fund for my cause. It is a tradition in our running clinic to get together by the end of it. We go to someone’s house or to a restaurant and spend some time together, without our usual sweaty and smelly running clothes.
I offered my house for the gathering and to raise funds I will host a vegan dinner. Each person that comes has to donate $20 that will go entirely to PETA PACK. This will happen next weekend. Of course, I will let you know how it goes as well as show you pictures of it.