I dropped Amy and Liam off at the airport on Thursday morning and they aren’t returning until this coming Saturday which means I had this past weekend all to myself. Seeing as I don’t normally have that kind of free time, I decided that I had better take advantage of it while I could. The fact that I didn’t do any (substantial) drinking and in fact was in bed by 1030 every night this past weekend is a testament to how much my life has changed since Liam came along. It was an enjoyable, but very tiring weekend.
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 Amy and I finally got around to getting a helmet for Liam (check flickr for some photos) so that we could try out the chariot as a bike trailer. We’ve been wanting to go riding as a family since Amy got her new bike, but just haven’t been able to find a helmet for Liam. We checked a few places and they all seemed to be too big. In the end, we ended up getting the smallest one we could find (at Kundstadt sports in Kanata) and used that. It is a tad too big, but he’ll grow into it.  So while Steve is out purchasing kayaks and UMPCs, Amy and I picked up something a little more family oriented – not to say that a kayak or UMPC couldn’t be a family purchase… Anyways, as you can see from the photo to the left, we went out and bought a new Chariot for Liam. We opted for the Cougar model (their mid-range offering) and went with a two seater in anticipation of more kids to come. We picked up a couple of conversion kits for it – namely the jogging and biking kits. Amy has made good use of it so far – using it on her daily 5K walks, and I’ve even managed to get out running with Liam once – just today actually. As for the bike kit…we haven’t made use of that yet because we haven’t been able to find a helmet for Liam yet – but maybe today we’ll find one.  Turns out all that training I did paid off this year. This year I followed Hal Higdon’s Intermediate I marathon training program and with a few exceptions, (trip to Mexico, recovering from Norwalk) I followed it very closely. In addition, I trained pretty strictly using my heart rate monitor and I think that made a huge difference. My goal for the race this year was once again 3:45:00, just like last year, but this time I think it was more realistic. In the end my time was 3:46:43.4 (chip time) – which is DAMN close to my goal (and an improvement of over 17 minutes from last year), but still over it. I’ve got a tiny bit of disappointment over that fact, but not in the way I ran the race so… |
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