"I Made it" 5k

I finally did my home town's Memorial Day 5k. Yay! That's all the yay I can muster. 

I felt horrible from the moment I got up that morning. Blah. Before the race started I wasn't even sure I'd even start it. 

I did. 

I figured I paid for it I'd better at least start. Then I wasn't sure I'd be able to finish it. 

I did. 

Barely. If my friend Emilee hadn't been there cheering and encouraging as we ran I probably would've stopped. But I finished in 48 minutes, which is surprising because that's only 2-3 minutes off my usual time. Not too bad for feeling like you're gonna fall over and die for the entire length. :) 

Not a great picture (really, it's hard to look even decent with as bad as I felt) but it proves I was there. 

Memorial Day 5k

Time for another race! Yay!

My hometown has had a Memorial Day parade and festival for 20 years and its great! I don't know exactly when they added in the 5k but its been around for quite a while as well. So excited that I'll finally get to do it (and run past my old high school and middle school, which was the elementary school, too, when I was there!).

Made my second sparkle skirt. This one didn't take as long but it still isn't quite right. I'll get it one day! Lol!

Happy Memorial Day, y'all! Remember...its NOT about BBQs, festivals, parades, or races.

46 Minutes

Supermom 5k was a lot of fun this morning! Lots of compliments on the sparkle skirt I made and my outfit (made me feel better about the skirt not turning out quite right!). :) One of my friends from high school (yes, you read that right) ran it as well so I had someone to chat with as I walked. What? You thought I actually RAN a whole 3 miles?! ;-) It's about half and half.

We finished in 46 minutes which is my usual finish time. I was 12 or 13 in my age group; not dead last I'll have you know. :-) 

Looking forward to my next race on Memorial Day in my home town. 

Now I'm gonna go eat. A lot. I burned a lot of calories and I'm hungry! I run because I really like food. 

               The before race picture! 

               Our MRTT group pic! 

Ready to Go!

My next 5k that I mentioned in my last post (I think...) is in the morning. Loving the outfit I put together for this one; first time I've really worn an "outfit" for a race but I've wanted to for a while!

I made the sparkle skirt (save money and all ya know). I should've just bought one. That bugger caused me a lot of heartache. Still didn't turn out quite right but it'll work for tomorrow and I'll get my aunt to show me what I did wrong before my race on Memorial Day. The shirt is NOT a "running" shirt...I got it at Walmart. The socks are from Academy Sports.

Yay for Supermom and happy running!! :)

3 and counting

I posted in January of last year that I was going to give this running thing a try.

That was 16 months ago and I'm happy to say that I've kept at it. Not as much as I wanted to but I'm still going. I've done 7 5ks to this point (wow!!! never thought in a million years I'd do even 1 mile!) and I have another race this weekend and then Memorial Day.

I am NOT a fast runner. Nope. My 5k average time is about 45 minutes so I don't see many medals in my future. I'm dang proud of the 3 that I have though (finishers' medals but hey! they're medals and I FINISHED!).

The first one is from the MRTT 2014 Winter "Virtual" 5k, the middle is from the MRTT 2013 Summer "Virtual" 5k, and the last one is the 2013 Jedi Challenge "Virtual" 5k. I love these. I have them hanging in the bedroom so I can see them every morning.

I'm pretty proud of myself for keeping at it. I'm sure I could do so much better if I actually trained a bit more but hey, I'm happy. :)

I'll let ya know when I add to this medal total.