FIRST 5K RUN

 Hey everyone, hope you all had a great 4th of July! Yesterday was a big day for me! I ran my first ever 5K run! My son did it with me and we had a blast, even though I thought I might die! Notice anything different in that photo up above ??? That's right this mama won a medal! I was happy to have even finished the race, let alone win something! My son and I both placed in our age division!

 

 My son is 7 and when we first got to the race he was so mad that I was making him run with me....once we got going he was so happy, and he kept saying we better not loose to everyone mom...Talk about motivation! We did a lot of walking and running and the best part was when we got to a drink station and poured our cup all over our head! We did not do any training before this race, we kind of wanted to...and then never got around to waking up to go run....so we kind of just showed up and said we are totally doing this if it means we are the last people to cross the finish line! I was super happy when we finished under an hour, considering we did not train and have really never ran like this before I think we did great! When we realized we placed we were excited! My son was so happy when they called his name for a 1st place medal! I used an app called Map My Run and was able to track our time and how far we had went while we were running! Does anyone have any suggestions for an arm band that holds an I Phone?? I had to hold mine the whole race which was no fun!

 

This beautiful view was the 1/2 way point of the race! We had to run up 3-4 hills and that was horrible, but we forgot all about them when we saw this view and realized it was going to be all down hill the whole second half! It was such an amazing feeling finishing the race and the energy from all the other runners was so happy and great! I am so excited to get into running and do a few more of these runs!