It's the weekend

This morning was an early start, ever since Christmas Lily has been feeling sort of punky and this morning she was sick again around 4:30am, so I got up to be with her.  She just hate being sick, she gets this look on her face as if she is trying to apologise.  While I was hugging her I got one of her cat hairs in my eye, gah that hurts, so I know look like I've been punched in the eye, it is so red and swollen but I was able to get the hair out by using my contact lens solution as a sluice.  Needless to say, both of us went back to bed because it was only 6:30 AM.

Well I'm up now and trying to organise myself, it is bright, sunny and cold and at some point I'd like to go for a ski.  Tomorrow I'm up at the freeking buttcrack of dawn because I volunteered to help at the Hypothermic Half Marathon in Ottawa.  Volunteers have to meet at 6:30AM....Holy F*ck....what's up with that?  No, really it is okay, the walkers start at 7am, so we have to be there to marshal traffic, cheer them on and make sure they go the right route.  Last year we ran 5 loops around the Arboretum, I'm not ashamed to say the race kicked my ass.  It was soooo cold and the wind picked up and I was definitely under-dressed.  I bailed with just a little over 5K to go.   Have I mentioned I really dislike winter?

So this year I figured the least I could do was volunteer, look for me, I'll be the one dressed like the Michelin Man.  Not really, but I will have so many clothes on I'll resemble him.

After the last runner / walker finishes we are all going off to the Arrow and Loon for breakfast.  It is part of the race swag, along with the coveted snowflake medal and race shirt.

That will be my last meal of the weekend as I have to fast for my medical tests on Monday.   Even though it is a rather embarrassing test, it is essential, colon cancer runs in my family.  And NO people you are not knocked out for this particular one....

Well there you go, oh, and an updated on my Ladybug.  She made an appearance on Wednesday and I feed her some apple and water droplets, but she was obviously failing.  She passed away on Friday and is now resting comfortably in the compost bin.

Life's fun if you don't weaken,

Lily

Disappointed but not giving up

Our Ottawa weather has crept up into the warmish digits, today it is very overcast and the roads are slick due to the freezing rain.  Yesterday I had every intention of going for a ski right after work, but as I left the office it was freezing rain which changed back and forth from rain to corn snow...yuck.

The previous day I had bailed from work early (yes, I'm on contract so I set my own hours).  It was gorgeous, cold and sunny!  I headed to the park to face my Nemesis, "the hill".  After signing in I headed onto the trail that is fairly flat with slight grades until you get further into the forest, I figured I'd warm up and back track to the hill.  Well, somewhere between turning around and getting back to the hill I totally lost ALL confidence and totally wimped and wiped out...I'm so dissappointed with myself, but I'm not going to beat myself up too much, we still have weeks of skiing left in the season...so you bastard, I'll break you, you won't break me!!!  And yes, I fell, and said the "F" word, many.times.  GAH!

Ruby will be going on the trainer this weekend, I check every day to see if the registration is open for the Rideau Lakes Bike Tour in June.  I'm going to ride the 100k from Perth to Kingston, stay overnight at Queens University and ride back the next day.  This was the tour I was to do last year but had to bow out because of my knee. 

A good friend of mine asked me yesterday if will I be putting up my 2010 goal races on my sidebar like I have for the past several years.  Well, in truth, I'm going to wait until it gets closer to race day before I register for events this year. 

Last year I registered for a shit load of races early in the season and couldn't compete in ANY of them, so I reference 2009 as a year of very expensive coolmax Tshirts.

This Sunday is the Richmond Road Race, I am entered and will be running the 5K, and I have also registerd for what sounds like an absolute riot of a run in June.  The Perth Kilt Run.   If you are one of the first 500 hundred to register, you get a Kilt to run in, no kidding and you get to pick your kilt colour!  Well, I picked Yellow (I hope it is tartan).  My Scottish friend James is registered too, so it should be an absolute whoot! 

Not too sure what else will catch my fancy this year, I am not going to run the same races over and over again, so I am looking further a-field and for some reason the Subaru IronMan 70.3 Muskoka keeps calling my name.  We will see how the knee holds up when I increase the distance before I make my decision.

Vickie and I have been talking about meeting up for a get together race like we did two years ago, Jeff (who has fallen out of blogland) wants to get into the mix too!  Maybe we can meet somewhere in the middle of Ottawa and Grand Rapids and get Shelley to join us for some fun too!!!  This will definitely be a party!! 

To Be Discussed!

On a side note, I have had a ladybug living in my kitchen for months now.  She was very active and noticable during Christmas, I would put out droplets of water and citrus juice for her and little bits of fruit for her to nibble on, then she flew off into another part of the house.  I spotted her in the kitchen this morning and put out some apple for her....does anyone else have a ladybug living with them???

Just one other question,  what the hell happend to spell check on blogger??? 

Life's fun if you don't weaken,

Lily