Gummy Bears, Big-Eyed Giraffes, and my Treadmill.

Yesterday was the last day of school for my two big girls (DD8 and DD6). I am very excited to have them both home with me again for the summer, and there was lots of celebrating - including a trip to Chapters to buy summer work-books, chapter books, and a little big-eyed giraffe for DD2 (couldn't leave her out). There was also two big bouquets of flowers from Daddy, cupcakes, and lots, and lots of gummy bears. All those gummy bears made mommy very thirsty - so I washed them down with a can and a half of coke. Then I went for my run.

Puke.

Well, not literally, but my stomach was killing me. It felt like I was running with a rock in my stomach. But, I decided to "Jock Up" and "Push Through", like all the real athletes do. When all was said and done my Nike Plus told me I had run 4.77 kms in 30 mins and 10 seconds with an average pace of 6'19"/km. Wow, right? Except...I was on my treadmill. And my treadmill told me I ran "3.0". I always thought my treadmill was in kilometres and running 3.0 km's in 30 minutes is not so much "wow", really. At least not if you are hoping to run 5.0K, in not much more than that time, in 6 weeks.

Buuut...three miles would be a pretty accurate conversion for my Nike Plus system's 4.77 kilometres. And, I was running pretty hard (for me). Of course, this is also on a nice cushy treadmill and a, um, zero percent incline.

Is it possible my treadmill has been in miles all along???

Oh, I hope so. That would mean I might actually be able to do this thing!

...as long as the organizers of the 5K race let me bring some extra equipment to the park, and let me run my race on the treadmill.