Bloomsday!

 Sunday is Spokane’s Bloomsday 12K  where I get to run with 50,000 of my closest friends….Jealous?

I knew you would be!

I am way back in BLUE
Hope to change to at least Orange

Jelly Bean Virtual 5K

So this run pretty much sucked. I felt great for the first mile and was like oh oh….bathroom stop needed. It went downhill from there. I couldn’t for more than a few feet

E took the camera to take pictures and J2 and the Principal rode their bikes as well.  So it was THE BEST time I have had on a 5K. Worst time pace wise…but we got out there as a family. No cell phones, no tv, no Wii.  This is my all time favorite route now.

The knee brace is hard to maneuver with capris

The Principal pretty much just circled around me.  Tried to encourage me to RUN…uh…honey I CAN’T!

Just fast enough to tell her to put the camera away!

I sure feel skinnier than this outfit looks

What is a 5K without an ant hill to throw rocks at

The Run Down

Race for the Cure 2011

because we all need pictures of ducks

Here I am all cute before the race

I think I may have to hunt down a

running skirt

So this run was not

what I had hoped

I didn’t run the whole thing

I didn’t PR

or even

PR the race from last year

There were, again, a ton of walkers

I just wasn’t feeling it

For one I am not an early riser

and

I am an hour away from any run in Spokane

So I always have to get up

early

I felt great this morning

and even when I got in line at the start

I just ran out of gas early!

Pretty sure it is because I am a heel striker

not a

toe runner

I ran on the treadmill the other day

barefoot

and love it

Hmmmm maybe I need to change things up???

I will still run Race for the Cure for Jamie

just might be in

Coeur d Alene

less people