I’m leaving in a few minutes to run a race around my favorite local lake. There is a 4.8 mile road race this morning at Lake Wyola in Shutesbury, MA. I just found out about it and thought it would be a fun way to get my run in today. This week was a horrible week for activity. We had a lot of rain and I didn’t have any babysitters lined up to watch Carlos.

I was playing this race by ear because of the rain. Right now it is gray, gloomy and damp outside, but no rain at the moment. My mom will be coming too so that she can watch Carlos while I run. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a dry race, but I’m so glad that I saved my old sneakers so my new ones won’t be a disaster.

Here’s my mom now. I’ll be back for a recap.