I’ve been debating whether to run the 5K or the 1-mile version of the local Race for the Cure. The original plan had been to run the 1-mile run now and do a 5K in November.

My regular run route is around the neighborhood loop once, a good two miles that kicks my ass thanks to the crazy mean hills:

That first hill is especially awful and pretty much ruins me for the rest of the run.

But the thing is, this weekend’s 5K course looks more like this:

One quasi-imposing hill, but at least it’s at the end.

I was still on the fence post about 1-mile/5K until Saturday, when I joined Jennifer and Jen for a run around our mostly flat downtown. They’re a bit more hard-core into the running than I am, but that’s exactly the push I needed. We ended up running probably about 4 miles and walking a little under a mile beyond that. And it felt so good.

So, I will be running the 5K this Saturday, wish me luck!

In other news, I think the additional running I did helped me overcome last week’s bad weigh in, which I believe I neglected to tell you about. Here are my Weight Watchers numbers for the last week:

-gained 1.2 pounds last week
-lost 3.2 pounds this week
-minus 12.8 pounds since the start of Weight Watchers 14 weeks ago
-minus about 16.5 pounds since I started keeping track four months ago.

Only 2.2 pounds to drop before I hit my initial weight loss goal!