Five-front

This December, there’s a 5K run taking place in Bethlehem. It’s called the Jingle Bell Run and it’s a charity walk/run for the Arthritis Foundation. All runners and walkers will tie little bells on their shoe-laces, and that itself is enough to motivate me to start “training” again. Last year, some graduate students here formed a team and I think on the whole, that team did quite well in the run. However, the temperature is slowly dropping around here and I’m not sure I’m prepared to run in the cold.

Since the Komen Race in NYC, I haven’t been following the Walk/Run program at all. I still go for the runs quite regularly, but not as often as I should and I rarely push myself to go faster or for a longer duration. Today I followed this routine..run 5min: walk 1 min and repeated that seven times. And the temperature was 9C at 5.30pm. I wonder if I could run the 5K in under 30 minutes if I really tried….maybe not, I think I’ll aim for a more realistic target of 35 minutes.

Now that I have the bicycle, I’ll ride to the running track, run/walk, and then ride back…quite fun actually. But I have yet to learn how to shift gears properly, so sometimes when I’m halfway up this tiny hill, it’s already too late and the gears won’t shift at all and I’ll have to push the bicycle

This picture was taken at the beginning of summer. The corn “plants” have now turned brown and dry and the corn is still on the plant! Seems like such a waste, at one time the corn all looked so fresh, green and juicy. If the plants are still there the next time I go for my run, I’ll take a picture of the sad-looking crop.