CONGRATS to Ryan and Erin.

So today was the day ..... Ryan and Erin's wedding. I was kind of wondering if it would ever happen considering they'd been dating for almost 11 years .... yes, 11 years. But last Christmas Ryan popped the question and Erin probably let out a huge sigh of relief and thought "FINALLY!" Wow that girl has patience. It was a very nice intimate gathering of immediate family only with the ceremony and luncheon taking place in Mississauga at the Glenerin Inn. I got to see my baby girls, Olivia and Annabelle again after a few weeks of them not making it out to Markham and also my big girl, Katie who's up at school in Barrie at Georgian College. Ryan had asked me to be on standby as the photographer but he managed to get a friend of Katie's to do the picture taking. I'd taken all the photos at Brendan and Danielle's wedding and and they came out really really well and everyone was quite happy with them so I was thinking I may end up taking pictures for Ryan and Erin. Apparently they wanted me IN the pictures this time so had another photographer. Nevertheless I had my camera and took my share of shots that I'll try and make a wedding photo book out of like I did for Brendan and Danielle. Two down and one to go. Now just because there's a wedding doesn't mean we ignore training. We got home around 5:30 and I immediately got my running gear on. Justin and I made some adjustments to our schedule and will end up doing our big brick on Monday so I wanted to get my long run in today and give my legs a chance to rest and recover by Monday. Tomorrow I'll probably just tinker around with the P3 and try to get it dialed in. I leashed Kona up and we headed out and my plan was to just go out easier but see what kind of distance I could get in. I hadn't run since last Sunday and I felt really good starting out. In fact I felt really good the whole way and tried to maintain about a 5:15 pace which I did over the first 10 km. I picked up the pace for the last 5 km and finished with a 5:08 pace for 15 km which surprised me but not because of the time. What surprised me was that I didn't push myself and felt really comfortable the whole way and still finished at a 5:08 average pace. The only time I'd picked up my pace was on the last third of the run and even at that I was was still running very comfortably. Maybe it was not running for almost a week that helped but in any case I hope the same thing happens in Miami after a week or so of tapering.