Back To School

 
In June we had the My Feet Your Dream Color Run. This was NOT my favorite race.

1. It was very hilly and it was obviously the first time this group had put on a color run because the color throwers would throw the colors right in your face/mouth. One racer even threw up because he inhaled some of the color. Eww.

2. My other complaint is that the race was not timed. We had number and everything, but there was no timer at all....not even a stopwatch. I understand that not every race is competitive, but I feel that the people putting on the race should have a disclaimer stating that the race is not timed when you sign up.

My time was around 37ish and Chris PR'd with at 34ish minutes.

They were not playing around with that color :)

In July we did the Watermelon 5k. 

I had stopped running in July because we moved and I threw Emersyn her first birthday get-together. July was super stressful, so I slacked off more than I should have. At the end of the month, we did the Watermelon 5k which has a hill rightly dubbed "Everest". The first mile and a half is slightly downhill and I was feeling awesome. I finished my first mile in 10:15 (which is really fast for me). Then I realized that mile 2 and 3 were all uphill, and it was STEEP uphill.

I finished in 40 min, which was disheartening, but we did have a heat advisory and I hadn't run in a month, so I deemed just finishing acceptable.

We are looking like real runners!

We have already done our August 5k.

It was the Run Wild 5k. We ran through and around the zoo. It was a nice, flat course, and I finished in about 37 minutes. Because it was a novelty run, they didn't do accurate timing; they just used a stopwatch. It was neat to run beside the animals, but it was super hot (another heat advisory).

I have now been working at getting faster and ran a 10 minute mile yesterday. That is the fastest I have run this year. I'm just getting back into the swing of school and running, so hopefully I'll be doing some big things this year.

I am wearing a sleeveless shirt! First time I've done that in YEARS!

I am now down 50 pounds (156)! Only 11 more to go!