day.14.shadeofchapa

This is how Friday's run began: with a nap.

 

 Jack and Chapa. Love birds.

After a few threats, Chapa was up and ready to go.

Before each run, I think about what mini goal I want to meet. Today, I asked Chapa what he wanted to do. "Shade. I want to run in the shade. That's my goal," he said, after calling me crazy multiple times. We had to run at 5:30 instead of 7:30 when I usually do because of a lovely dinner party Kieley had planned to introduce her mother to our crazy and amazing friends - so yeah, shade was necessary in this South Texas heat.

 

Our beautiful home - looks hot down here, right? We needed shade.

Shade? Well, since I'm on the path to being a goal-oriented person, I made every effort to meet this goal for Chapa. Without warning, I lead Chapa on a strange route (he added a few twists and turns, too!) that included zig-zagging across the street, doing laps in the Renaissance parking deck, exploring secret alleys, running up and down one block multiple times that had the ultimate shade from a "tall" building, and circling around each other a couple times as we plotted our next move toward shade.

 The alley with some amazing flowers! And shade. Lots of it.

Needless to say, this was one of the more entertaining runs.

Check out all that SHADE! Sometimes I think I live in South Beach or California....sometimes.

Day.14.total.5k.time: 39:29 minutes with a 12:46 min/mile pace. My other goal this run was to no stop again, and to try to stay the same pace the whole time. We did just that - no sprinting like I had done the other times. It was a crazy run with legs that felt like bricks, so I'm perfectly okay with this! First time in the past 14 days that I ran a 5k straight at a consistent pace!