I was so inspired from my 5k yesterday I recruited Tuesday and we met the RunHers group out at Hefner for a special event called Martha Stewart Moves, it was to celebrate her new show on the Hallmark Channel and everyone in the group got a free running shirt, apron & wooden spoon just for coming! We had an easy 2 mile run, photo opp and then went to Panera for breakfast.
Pretty pink sunrise!
My family was just getting up when I got home! I feel like a marine or something, lol!
Today is the day I have been preparing for, for months, my first 5k!!! I was so nervous this morning I felt sick to my stomach. I did get up on time with plenty of time to spare and ate 1/2 a Pure Protein Bar and drank some Gatorade, then Lori arrived and we rode to Hefner together.
The atmosphere was great, tons of people everywhere all smiling and casual. We had to use the disgusting port a potties after all our Gatordade but there were so many people there they had to bring in a bunch of 'clean' ones so it wasn't as bad as it could have been.
We warmed up and stretched a bit and then everyone started lining up. I had major butterflies in my stomach but distracted myself with getting my music cued up. It seemed surreal when they fired the gun to signal the start and just like that my body started moving.
There were people of all abilities there, I got past the first water station and over the bridge and there were people on their way back! I was a little shocked by that, but just kept pushing myself and plugging along. There was someone on the other side of the bridge that signaled us to turn around because we were at the halfway point, that felt great and I just kept moving.
My goals were to run the whole thing without stopping and to try to complete it in 30-35 minutes. There was one point right around the lighthouse when I thought....I am going to have to walk for a minute...but I kept moving a little slower and once I got around the curve I saw the finish line and that was the most amazing feeling ever, because I knew I was going to make it! I pushed myself to the finish and reached both of my goals, my time was 33:50 and I finished pretty much right in the middle 36th out of 71 females and 6th out of 10 for my age group. I am just thrilled to have done it, it felt amazing!!
After I crossed the finish line, they immediately handed me water and I kept walking and panting trying to catch my breath. They wanted me to stop so they could get the timing tag off my shoe and man was that annoying cause I could barely breath and just wanted to walk a minute and catch my breath! I waited there for Lori and we hung out and just enjoyed the moment and watching the others cross the finish line and finally we decided we needed a picture at the Finish Line, so here we are, looking sweaty but very happy!!
This has been a great week so far, the kids were out of school on Monday & Tuesday, we went to see Nanny Mcphee Returns and it was super cute.
Page took his DRE final on Tuesday and aced it! I know that is a big weight off his shoulders, he has been working towards that for months and studying like crazy to memorize his drug matrix. We are very proud of him!
We kicked off our weekend tonight with the Fall Picnic up at the school. The kids had tons of fun and Page and I got worn out from chasing Mikey around, lol!
