Best Dressed Turtle

This year for my birthday, my mom gave me a $100 lululemon gift card.

It usually takes me a while to use gift cards (what with a toddler and all), but this one I spent immediately and I just got my stuff in the mail today!

lululemon is pretty much what all the cool (or fast) runners seem to be wearing these days.  I figure since I'm no where near fast (or even non-slow), at least I can look relatively good (minus the red face, dripping sweat and gasping for air stuff).  I would never actually BUY lululemon for myself because their clothes are on the expensive side (around $50 per item). I usually purchase my running attire in the Target athletic section or in the clearance rack at the Nike Factory Outlet. 

With my $100 gift card - I got ONE pair of shorts and ONE skirt.  They're called "speed shorts" and "speed skirt" so I'm hoping they make me go AT LEAST one minute per mile faster (if I was buying them myself, I'd expect three minutes plus a feature that made me less sweaty) so I can be one of the faster turtles. 

Speaking of turtle running, I did 7 miles today with my group.  Although, I only ran about 50 yards with "the group".  My running friend wasn't there today so I ran by myself.  It was a slow (but not too shabby for me) pace, about 11:21/mile and that included three water stops and some talking with the coach. 

Next week, we're doing a two mile time trial.  Apparently all the fast runners stress out about the time trial.  We're supposed to run the two miles at - as fast a pace as we can maintain for two miles.  Our coach said we should be very tired at the end, but not throwing up.  That might be a fine line for me.  Rogue has all these charts and you plug in you two mile time, then some magical equation is calculated, and you get your goal marathon time/pace.  We'll see.  I'm just hoping not to throw up on my new cute skirt.

Here's Cub playing in the water today. I imagine he's saying - Mom, I'm in a Christmas t-shirt and you spent how much on a pair of shorts?