5K

I ran my first race post-Beckett this past Saturday. It was a gorgeous day which was a nice bonus because you never know what you are going to get in April in Ohio. I will admit, I was a tad nervous because it had been about 18 months since I last ran a race.  I've been training for the CLE half in May and really wanted to get one race under my belt before then. I was pretty proud of myself! I ended up with my best "official" race time at 34:04.  The only thing I hate about actual races is the early morning start time.  I'm just not a person that works out in the morning, especially running.  It just doesn't work for me. I am not looking forward to getting up at like 4am for the CLE half marathon but what are you going to do?? Paul and Ashley also ran (Ashley's first official 5K) and did great! Bring on the half!!

Heritage Festival 2012

I made the terrible decision of signing Paul and me up for the annual 5K in Kent the day after we got back from vacation.  In my defense I had no way of knowing then that it would be 900 million degrees. We both totally sucked and had to walk part of it because it was just that damn hot.  Plus we had been on vacation all week.  We got our picture with Flash though!  Go Kent!

Afterwards we took the girls downtown to the festival to get some food and then later headed over to watch some Fireworks with Kelly, Greg, and Mackenzie.

I love these two pictures of the girls!

The (now 8) of us have kind of made this a tradition so I was glad we were able to go again this year.  They had initially canceled the fireworks because it's been so dry out this summer. Luckily we got some rain the few days before and they un-canceled them.  The girls love to roll down the big hill and watch the fireworks.  Hopefully next year the first Saturday in July isn't as hot!