A Whole New Experience.....

Well, the first 6 miles of the mini were awesome, I felt great, my legs felt great and the weather was perfect...then I took a drink of gatorade and it was all downhill from there. They say that you shouldn't do anything differently the day of the run than you did on any of your training runs and this year in the few training runs that we did we did not take gatorade with us. Mile 6 right after we stopped for a pit stop right inside the track (thank you IMS for providing something besides a port-o-let) I thought I was going to get sick and I could not recover....Poor Chuck, had to be miserable running with me, sorry hun, but he made the best of it and pushed me through to the bitter end!! I am very disappointed in the outcome but I have to keep reminding myself that I had a baby 5 months ago so I should be ok with it, and there is always next year!!

The first 5 miles we finished in 49:34 and that was even with a first mile that took us over 10 minutes because of all the people we had to run around!!! I'm telling you I can pin point the minute that I knew the rest of the race was not going to be pretty!

Finish time was a whopping 2:17:56

Besides the outcome of the mini the weekend was fantastic! We had lots of people over Saturday night to watch the derby. Plus it was two solid days with Hannah.

Well, it is finally here. I would say after all the training and time consuming runs I am very excited for it to finally be here because that is what I would say any other year but I have to admit I am scared for tomorrow! This shockingly has not been my best training year so I am really just hoping to cross the finish line tomorrow! I would really like it to take less time then the first year that we ran it, but that might be asking to much??

Here is our progression over the years

2004 2:35:27 11:52 min/mile (I chalk this up to a bad starting position and not know that you should never stop at the first set of port-o-lets, they have the longest line!)
2005 2:28:08 11:19 min/mile
2006 2:17:25 10:30 min/mile
2007 2:13:02 10:10 min/mile (Chuck blames this on 2 bathroom stops, his not mine!)
2008 2:16:52 10:27 min/mile (I was 10 weeks pregnant)
2009 ????????

The only guarantee tomorrow is a fun get together with friends and fun libations to boot! Cheers to a dry and fogiving mini!

This one I didn't miss...Hannah is sick for the first time! I took her to the doctor on Monday because when I was getting her ready for daycare she had a rash on her belly, didn't seem to phase her but it phased me so we went to have it checked out. Turns out she has Hand-Foot-and-Mouth syndrome which explains the stuffy nose she has had since last Thursday. Anyways, this meant no daycare for at least a few days...thanks to Judy and Chuck we have been able to get through this first of many illnesses without totally screwing up our work schedules. Hannah, does not seem to be bothered by the rash part, she is not a fan of the stuffy nose and has learned to block mommy from suctioning the snot out, she turns her head when she sees me coming, quite funny!

Chuck and I have also managed to get a cold which should make running the mini even more interesting. My mom was in town this past weekend to help us with yard work (Thank you mom, the house looks amazing) so she watched Hannah while Chuck and I ventured into the almost 80 degree weather for an 8 mile run and I have to say it went much better than the 10 mile run that we did the week before. I am just hoping this cold doesn't ruin the run for us on Saturday morning!

Wow, how time flies!! Here is Hannah doing the 5 month dance!