Made It!

At the end of school, we made a Summer Cheer Challenge for the cheerleaders.  One of the challenges involves running.  It sounded like a good goal to run (or run/walk) a 5k this fall as a group.

Since it is summer, this is an individual training thing.  But, I thought maybe people would want to get together and run every couple of weeks.  For some completely insane reason, I made 8:30am, every other Saturday as the run time.  It didn’t seem like a big deal at the end of May.  Here in July, it just sounds crazy.

The first Saturday, I was late.  Today, I was late.  If anyone showed up, they weren’t there when I got there.  Honestly, I haven’t reminded anyone during these weeks of summer.  Yes, I need to get my act together!

This morning I had my daughter with me when we got to the empty track.  We decided to stay and run.  I haven’t exercised at all this past week.  I had a horrible cold, that turned in to a sinus thing, and just plain sucked.  I was feeling a bit better today though.

We ran/walked 1.5 miles this morning.  Realistically, I don’t see my knee being able to run three miles straight by fall – and that is realistic, not pessimistic.  It is still two steps forward, one step back with this thing.  I was very happy we made it the 1.5 miles this morning!  My daughter wanted to run the bleachers, so we did that too.

Well, two of the kiddos and I are already signed up for a 15 mile bike race next month.  And we just got our bikes fixed up at the bike shop this week.  So, we went out today for 5 miles to start us off.  We don’t have much time to be ready for this race!  We made it the 5 miles this morning with a fair amount of ease.  And the bikes were running smooth after their tune-ups and repairs!  I am very hopeful for the 15 miles in a month!

Tonight I am thankful that I am alive and kicking after the first part of today!  After an entire of week of doing nothing, it feels like I jumped back in to this exercise thing with both feet today.  I’m tired!  But Boy, did it feel good to be running and biking today!!  Totally worth the swollen knee and tired eyes!!  I hope everyone had a wonderful Saturday!