My first 5K

Gabriel and I's very first Thanksgving together he ran a 5K and said the next time I run one you are going to do it with me! I laughed in his face! I have never been a runner but always wanted to be.

 

So after I had Violet I was determined to loose all my baby weight that I kept on from Brigitte and her by Christmas. We have a treadmill but like I said I wasn't a runner and just usually walking and kind of jogging. So I did successfully loose that extra baby weight and in the process began to like running. So in the spring I decedided to start training for a 5K with the couch to 5K app. Well I made it to about week 4 or 5 and then summer got in the way.

 

Violet turned one and I had lost all the weight but wasn't liking how I looked. Ya know having babies your body tends to shift in places that no one warned me about! So I said the only way I will stick to training is if I actually sign up to do it and pay for it! So I signed up to do one in November later to learn that Gabriel would be in Peru during that time and he refused not to be there for my first 5K! Like I said this is a big deal to him as well because he also thought this would never happen. So I had already paid for it but found another one 2 weeks before it and signed up!

 

The week before the race I thought I better start running outside to see how my "training" was doing on a tredmill compared to really running. I quickly learned I run so much better outside!!! It was so refreshing! I couldn't believe it. I now understand why people run outside to clear their head! It really works. Of course I was training still and the only thing I could keep thinking about was not dying! ha

 

So last Saturday was the big day!

I didn't run the whole thing but most of it! My goal was to finish in 35 minutes but finished in 36:20. My goal for my November race is 34.
 

I love running outside now. Needless to say I really am going to hate daylight savings because I will only get to run outside on the weekends. Gabriel leaves before dark and it will be dark when he returns as well and I can't run with a stroller yet so the treadmill it will be!