5k Running NSV :o)

I have been a member of FMP since Jan 30, 2011 and this is my first post :blushing:

I am not one to typically toot my own horn, but I am pretty proud of myself today :bigsmile:

I was never a runner growing up. I did a little track in junior high, but I did sprinting stuff and long jump. When we had to run the mile in gym class, it took me 10.11 min. Which is not a stellar time when you are only running 1 mile. Then in high school I was on the swim team, but again I did sprinting stuff. Just never been good at long distance, my asthma didn't help.

My husband likes to run, and last year decided he wanted to run a 5K. So I walked the 5K pushing our two kids in the double stroller while he ran. Walked it in just over 54 mins.

Then I was laid off in Feb of this year and for some reason decided to take up running. By the beginning of June I coule run a 5K in 40 mins. Then by the beginning of August I did one in 37 mins. So this year we both signed up for the same 5K he ran last year, and this year I was determined that I was going to run it to. So I enlisted someone to come and do the 5K walking and push the kids for me so I could run.

Well the day came. We get this morning, and my help is lost :grumble: Well the race began, and I had the biggest, most unruley, hard to steer double stroller with 55lbs sitting in it (so probably about 70 lbs total with the weight of the stroller and the stuff in the bottom). And I decided, I was still going to run this 5K, stroller or not. So off I went.

Mind you, my neighborhood I had been running around for the past six months is flat. This trail is NOT flat and very curvy. But I ran the whole thing pushing the 70lbs up and down every hill and faught it around every curve and corner. I was even told by someone cheering everyone on towards the end as I was running up a hill that I was a "Strong Mama" :laugh:

I finished the race with a time of 43.35 mins!!! I don't think that was to schabby of a time considering the hills and 70 lbs I was pushing. SO VERY PROUD OF ME TODAY :flowerforyou:

Thanks for reading