Mother, Run, Hike

Whenever we have the urgent desire to go somewhere for a trip, the first thing I do after booking the hotel, is to look up races around the area. Roger hates that I do this, and tells me we are traveling to relax, and I tell him that is how I relax, doing races and running. He sometimes decides to give up the fighting and just join me on the race. Racing in Rehoboth has been my goal since last year, so I agreed to spending the weekend there, if we could do the 5K. Race Details Fee: $25, registered that day. Goodies : blue, tech, woman's cut shirt. Bagels, pastries and water after the race. Time and weather: at 12:00 pm, windy, sunny, around 45. We registered 1 hour before the race, and walked around the shops looking for coffee and a bagel. I was hungry at 11, because breakfast had been at 8:30 am. We lined up at the start line at 11:50, but the race didn't get started until 12:25. There was no indication for the first 10 minutes for the delay, just a bunch ...

I've been divorced for 4 years now. And Alternate holiday weekends still suck!! For any of you who are not divorced, and don't have to memorize a Custody schedule for your child... let me give you a brief explanation. Shared custody of a child means that my son summer holidays get alternated year to year.... last year he was with me for Memorial Day, and Labor Day. This year he goes with his Dad and  I get him for 4th of July. This was supposed to be my weekend, but instead, my son gets to spend the holiday weekend with his Dad. I'm sad about it, but the only thing I can do about it is deal with it. So I'm planning on running a couple of races to stop torturing myself psychologically , and push myself Physically instead. Roger and I will be driving out to the beach for the weekend, but not before I can have some more torture. A baseball game was cancelled two weeks ago, and the coaches picked the Friday before the holiday weekend to make it up..... Yes, because nob...