Happy father’s day to all dads out there. This year is my first for all first time dads the first is very special. Though my son is still young, I have certain amount of pride on this father’s day.
I have tried to make father’s day a weekend event. On Saturday, I was able run my first race being a dad. It went okay for being sleep deprived. I was able to maintain a reasonable pace and did not have any aspirations of winning or even running a great time. I had a reasonable goal of under 26min and was able accomplish this goal by running 25:50. The rest of the day, however I just felt out it, my attention span just was not there. I thought that taking a nap would have been a good idea but even that did not happen. It was again filled with changing diapers and feeding. If you think that all diapers are the same your mistaken, I have a clear favorite, more on that at a later time.On the official father’s day, I was able to start it early 5am , with a feeding and diaper change. Normally I am able to get a small nap in after he is feed and diapered. I have found this helps with my run during the day. Well this nap did not happen apparently my son felt it necessary to make sure that I am up and “hanging out” with him trying to get him to calm down and take that all important nap. Needless to say I did not run today, I seem to be more okay with not running this Sunday than last. I was able to get 40+ miles in this week, which is a high for the last 6 weeks. I have found that running 8-10 miles daily will become normal. To me this is okay it is something that I wanted to this summer but was thinking that I might be running a longer midweek run. For now I am happy with the way things are going both personally and in my running.
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