5K

Saturday, we participated in the Dow Run Walk...the girls did a 1mi fun run and tot trot and my friend Kate and I did the 5K walk...all that before I went to work!!! Needless to say I was a tired mama that evening. Kate and I did well in our age groups...she was 3rd in hers I was 5th so not so awful. And at the end my favorite local band (I may be a groupie...) performed. It was a hot day and I wasn't feeling the best by the end but overall I felt accomplished! Bronwyn did her first run. (well mainly a walk) but she did something she didn't believe she could really do and I was proud to see her try! Ella was disappointed that her race was so small but it got her out there any way!

Oh, and the rains did claim that lovely first poppy before it even fully opened...sigh...fickle life of flowers!!

Aftermath

This is the aftermath of the 5K...I made it...I survived it...and now to keep walking to get ready for the next one in June!! I walked it with a friend who has lost a tremendous amount of weight and has treadmilled all winter...I have walked twice since last summer...and I haven't yet mentioned my lovely friend is 5'10 with long legs to my 5'5 with stumpy legs...she was motivated and cheerleaded me appropriately as I huffed and puffed and held her back...but out of hundreds of walkers we were 27th (her) and 28th (me). So really not a bad effort...but I felt it this time...and she is stoked so her goal is to take our 42.26 minute time and make it 39 ish...so me thinks there is a lot of work to do!!!! But there was a time in not to distant memory that I would have never imagined doing this much less signing up and actually doing it...so progress has been made and it felt good once my legs stopped feeling like rubber!!