rainy day errands

So many errands to run today and it is pouring down rain. I wish I owned a raincoat.

I need to pick up S's guitar I had restrung so she can sing and play along with the High School Musical and Hannah Montana and Taylor Swift songs she loves so much. I need to change the oil in my car, it is long overdue. I need to find a window shade for the girlies room that darkens the room and blocks out the morning light so that maybe they will sleep past 6:00am this summer. They want a later bedtime this summer and that will only work if they learn to sleep in a little bit later or they will be grouchy. I need to stop somewhere and buy Tropicana OJ for my husband, he is addicted to it and we are all out. I am having a Tastefully Simnple Party at my house on Tuesday night so I also need to stop by and pick up my party food kit. Yum! Let's see, what else?

To make my errands run a little more tolerable in this rain I am going to stop at this little drive-up coffee place called Java Express and get a nonfat chai tea latte. Yum! I can almost taste it already. But first I need to shower. I just ran on my treadmill while reading a book. So, you can imagine I didn't run very fast but I got my 35 minutes in today and that was all I was looking for. I would like tp lose a few pounds so my clothes fit a little better, so I am going to up my running from 3 days a week to 4 or 5. I hope that extra effort will help.

I also need to start training for the Women's 4 Miler Race I run every September. I can run 4 miles without to much trouble but I never get any faster so my goal this year is too really train for it better than I have in the past. I have run it 5 times now and had the best time the first year I ran it. I get slower every year, maybe because of the extra 5-10 pounds, maybe the weather or my training or lack thereof. So this year I hope to finish in under 42 minutes. I would really love to find a running partner. Someone who would run with me a few times a week. I run quite a bit on the treadmill, but I need to get back outside to get used to hills and weather and temperature again. The race is the Saturday before Labor Day every year. Some times it can be really hot and one year it rained , so you never know what it will be like.

If you are interested in running this summer, let me know. I want to be able to run up to 6 miles(I have only ever done 5.5 so far) and I want to get my time down to running 9 to 10 minute miles instead of 10.5 - 11.5 minute miles. I usually don't mind running slow, I am impressed that I can run that far. But I would like to beat my time this year. I'm not sure if that is realistic or not, but I won't find out until I try so wish me luck.