Alone at last....

Power has been out for the past 3.5 days. Finally back on! But on Saturday I was able to get in an 8 miler. It was 63 degrees with low humidity at the beginning! What a great run!

Summer running!

Plans for tomorrow....Run 4 miles into the beach (pushing the double jogger)...Letting the girls play @ the water park....then running 4 miles back to the car...A WIN-WIN situation...I get my run in..and they get to play at the water park! Will let you know how it actually went!

Can you say FROG!

On today's run, Danielle spotted a FROG! Mommy picked him up and the girls touched his back....Felt bumpy! Then the frog jumped into Danielle's lap and she laughed! Then into Allison's lap and she started to cry. I guess she's not into frogs yet!

A great day for a 10K race..

Woke up @ 6 am. Not sure if I was going alone or with 1 or 2 girls.

Planned for solo. Then I heard the cries! Both girls up @ 6:30.

Got to the race and poured the gold fish snacks. We were ready to roll!

The 1st mile was a 9:59 (I am shocked! Pushing a double jogger!) I have not ran a sub 10 mm in about 4 years! Then 10:28, 10:29, 11:06 (stopped to fill water bottle), 10:02, and last 1.2 mile was 13:00. Total time was 1:05:06.

I was VERY pleased with that time!

Let the Learning begin!

Friday we went for a short 5.5 mile run. And what did we see?

We stopped for a Caterpillar. The girls touched the soft, fuzzy fir. Then came a snail and they touched the hard shell. Over the bridge, and to our surprise was three turtles sunning on a log!
We have ran that route for the past 4 years and this is the 1st time we saw turtles!

What a great learning experience the run was!

Watch out...here comes the Mommy....

Up at 5 am on my day off. What was I thinking??!!

The race went very well. About 60 degrees, sunny with a 10-15 mph wind...(not again!) Usually this race is 80-85 degrees and humid...so I was happy it was cooler.

The gun went off and there we went! I posted a 10:10 for the first mile! Holy cow, pushing a double jogger...for me that is EXCELLENT!

The next miles were 10:55, 10:29,10:54, then the last 0.8 mile was 10:10. My oldest fell asleep, but awoke for the finish line pictures. My final time was 52:40 for the 8k which is about a 10:37 mm.

I am very please with that!

Next up, a 10K race on Saturday!

Tomorrow's the race!

Thursday, the girls and I did 11.5. Had to stop @ the 1/2 way mark to let the girls play on the playground. (This wasn't an issue when they were younger and didn't know what a playground was!).

A slow 5 miler yesterday, and the 8K tomorrow.