Slow and Steady finishes the race without Dying...

So I haven't posted in a week, the reason for this is that I haven't run in a week. Seriously. I haven't even laced up at my running shoes in a week.

It's been brutal, I've been sick -- I lost my voice, then I sounded like a pre-pubescent boy for 2 days, then I sounded like a Porn Star for 2 more days --- today I was told I sound like a phone sex operator, all deep and husky.

Okay -- enough about future career possibilities...

I finally realized today that I have a race coming up this Sunday and I hadn't run in a week --- Time was ticking. So I made up my mind to go out and do a slow 5km tonight as a way to get my lungs working again... It worked out well, I moved slowly, but ended up taking a new route and all in all I did about 8km tonight. I didn't run all of it, there were no rules -- if I felt like walking, I walked, if I wanted to run, I ran -- I'm guessing I ran/jogged about 5km of it, and walked 3 in there -- which isn't bad. All in all that 8km took me about 75mintes -- which is about 9 minutes per kilometre, pretty slow in my book -- but acceptable.

My goal is to finish the 10km race on Sunday in 75 minutes as well. I know it won't be my best possible 10k time, because I've been so sick lately, but if I can finish still moving and smiling I'll be a happy girl.