Happy Feet

It was a short week for me this week. I took Thursday and Friday off as vacation. Thursday and most of Friday, I watched my beautiful niece, she is soo much fun. Then it was Friday Family Fun Run with just the girls (HeatherSue, Scuba, SB and Ella Beans) since my dad was on vacation and out hunting.

It was a chilly and windy day so we did the normal loop around my apartment but backwards. As we were running the loop, I told my is Heather Sue that she has happy feet. She laughed at me and ask when did her feet start talk to me. I don't know what it is about her feet (stride) but they always keep happy when we run on Friday's, maybe its the fact that is the weekend they are so happy. She also probably laughed at me because this is was not the first time I told her I thought she had happy feet when running. I may be going crazy/gone crazy already (..for years) or I enjoy having more footsteps running with me. I love having my sisters and dad interested in runnning, they are my motivation to keep running and to stay in shape.

My feet were happy again this weekend with another road race. My SIL is a Girls on the Run (GOTR) Coach and another local GOTR chapter was doing their 5k race of the year so we went down to support that and help her get ideas for their Spring 5k. Scuba and I ran and placed first and second respectively in the race. I also started off the race with my SIL's girl until she caught up to us on the roller blades. It was a pretty nice easy course with some hills.

We have one more road race coming up next week, the Turkey Trot then I am think I will have a couple weekends off from races before the Frostbite 5Miler in December. It will be nice and strange not having a race after next weekend since I have been running a 5k race every weekend since the beginning of October.

That never happens for me.

Today my Dad, Mister and I ran the annual Habitat for Humanity 5K race sponsored by the local college.  It is not always the most organized race but we like the course so we do it every year.   It was a beautiful fall day for the race.  SB was there to cheer us on while she is taking some time off to let her injury heal and she was our photographer today.  

During the first loop and half I was 4th female finisher then the one Dr.'s Wife passed going up the one hilll while  was stuggling with my breathing.  However, I stopped briefly to recover my breathing and then picked up the pace again because I wanted to hold on to my 5th female finisher (other than the other weekend when I was the 4th female finisher but there was only 35 runners and walkers.....being in the top 5 female finisher never really happens for me).  I pushed it hard to keep my 5th place and was able to finish the race in 25:22.

My Dad went back to bring Mister in and he was doing very well.  He finished the race in 30:35, which is pretty darn good for not training ever!

The other that never happens for me that I got first in the 20-29 Age group for female finishers.  I believe this is my second first place award I have ever gotten....So its been a good day and a good race. 

P.S. I was 15 seconds faster this year then I was last year and two minutes faster then 2 years ago. Mister was 1 minute and 20 seconds faster than last year. 

Now its time to get cleaned up and off to eat a late lunch/early dinner with the in-laws.