mindfirerunner

So, the hubby is in Las Vegas running the Rock ‘n’ Roll 1/2 Marathon on the Strip tonight. Las Vegas is usually not my thing during the winter months. I prefer sitting by the pool in the heat of 100+ degree weather sipping on more favorable drinks. Not bundling up in a jacket and running from casino to casino in the cold and rain (yes, it rains in Vegas) and making sure I eat healthy and stay fit to run in a race. I’ve also determined time and time again that I am not a night runner. I try to change it up every few months. Mostly, because I get lazy and don’t want to get up in the mornings, or I try to justify that I need to get something else done, or that the weather will just be better later in the afternoon. None of these ever prove to be true. So when determining whether or not to go with my husband to Vegas and run in the dark, I opted to stay home with the kids and let him have a guys weekend with his bud.

He had pneumonia a few weeks ago and missed out on two weeks of training time, but that hasn’t deterred him from spending countless hours at the race expo, geeking over running on the strip at night, and expressing nothing but sheer excitement over looking forward to what will take place in just a few short hours. He has reminded me that running should be fun. Sure, we work hard. We train hard. We are competitive and beat ourselves up. There are times we get mad and just want to give up. But sometimes we need to ditch the Garmin, tracking devices, and all that tech crap and just hit the road and have fun. We get too caught up in time, pace, turnover, and mileage, that it’s easy to forget that sometimes we just need to get out there and have fun.

So, tonight my hope is that you have fun. That you see the Strip in a whole new and exciting way. And, that you might even see some “exotic dancers”, since Vegas apparently doesn’t have strippers.

Happy Running.