Meadow Mile + 2 years

I ran the Meadow Mile 5k this morning.  I got to the first mile in like 11 minutes!  I was impressed by that...I'm a pretty slow runner.  The first mile was the easiest & I was kinda wishing I had just done the mile!  Oh, well :)  There was a slight hill we had to go up & down (ugh, I hate running up hills!) and the wind was NOT fun!  Overall it was fun though.  Brad & Kiley were there to cheer me on & Kiley would say "Go, Mommy, go!"  My little motivator!  She almost crossed the finish line with me because she ran up to me.  Brad said next time they'll wait across the finish line!  My time ended up being 37:06...my best so far!  I also won a doorprize!  woohoo!  It was a gift certificate to a BBQ place in Brownfield.  yummy!  I love free food :)

In other news, Kiley is 2 now!  (Technically 25 months now)  She had her 2 year well-check & it went, well...well :)  She got her 2nd Hep A shot so no more shots till age 4!!!  (Well, except the flu shot).  She weighed about 27 1/2 lbs & is about 32 inches or so (They measured 35 inches, but I know that's not accurate!)  I don't remember her head measurement, but I'm sure it's still big :)  We did confirm that she probably does have allergies/asthma/eczema.  Poor girl, she was born in the wrong city!  We finally got rid of her cough by using breathing treatments & adding another allergy medicine (now takes Singulair at night & zyrtec in the mornings).  Good ol' Lubbock.
Kiley is starting to talk in sentences a lot.  It's really fun (& really weird too...what happened to my little baby!?)  It's fun seeing her personality.  She's so full of life & very compassionate too...she doesn't like when other people are sad or sick.  So far so good with the "terrible twos".  Hopefully Love & Logic will help them not be so bad :)  Oh, she's in a toddler bed now.  So far so good there too.  She doesn't always want to go to sleep at night, but that's just because we are so much fun to be around :)

Almost naptime, better go.  Just thought I'd update since it's been over 6 months since my last post.

Running to Rescue

This morning the three of us participated in the Running to Rescue 5k.  Mostly I wanted a 5k to run in, but this really is a good cause.  The money was raised to support The A21 campaign.  The group's focus is to fight human trafficking.  Sadly this is a big problem for the world today.  Millions of women are victims of human trafficking & are forced into this horrendous crime.  It's easy to ignore it or think that it doesn't affect us or that it only happens in the movies.  (I remember watching the movie Taken several years ago.  That movie freaked me out because you know that kind of thing happens all the time.)  I'm glad there are groups like this & events like this to raise awareness of this horrible industry.



As for the race itself, it was pretty good.  It was held in Vintage Township & we raced around the neighborhood.  You had to do three laps for the 5k.  I lined up with the runners (toward the back since my running is not that fast, lol).  Brad had Kiley in the jogging stroller & he was lined up kinda between the runners & walkers.  It was soooo hot.  We realized when we had already left the house that we had forgotten sunscreen & hats & Brad's sunglasses.  And the saddest part was that I just cleaned the car out yesterday...we had all that stuff in there before I cleaned it out!  It was hard for me to tell how good I was doing (since you had to do 3 laps, it felt especially long!), and since Brad kept catching up to me :)  I tried to run as much as I could & only walk a little (and walk fast when I did have to walk).  My time ended up being 38:04!  I'm pretty pleased with that.  My goals were pretty similar to my first 5k:  finish, not be last, and finish in at least 43:20 (my last 5k time) but I really wanted to finish in less than 40 minutes!  What I like about running is that you can compete against yourself & try to beat your own time. Sometimes it is easy for me to feel like I'm not doing that good when there are people who finish in less than 30 minutes, but I just remind myself that I haven't been running that long & when I started I could not even run 2 minutes!  Oh, and Brad finished in about 39 minutes...and he hasn't even been running or anything!