Thursday, August 16, 2012

5 K!

After we moved to Houston I decided to start running. Having never been a runner, except for running the Baylor trail in college, this was a big task. I used the Couch to 5K app on my phone and I learned to enjoy running. After training for about 10 weeks I ran in a race here close to home.




My friend Kellye, who has been a big motivator for me, and our amazing pastor's wife both ran the race too. Suzanne played college basketball and is super athletic and competitive! I think she came in 2nd-crazy!

I completed the race and was so excited! I averaged a 9:49 mile, which is pretty fast for me.

Keri helped so much by putting the kids to bed and never complaining as I left to run each evening. Since football season is on the horizon he won't be able to give me many running nights. But I hope to keep running (and learn to run with the jogging stroller) and I am planning to run a 5K with my Dad in November!

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2 comments:

ashley said...

I am so proud of you! I'm currently
"in training" - maybe I should check out that couch to 5K phone app! Maybe one day we'll be running a race together!

Leah J. said...

That is awesome! I think I need to look into Couch to 5K again ... tried it once and made it through the first run :)