Well, I ran 5.03 miles on Monday night! My longest run to date! WOOHOO!!!! Now I know I'll have NO problem with my 5 mile race on Saturday morning! YAY!!!! It wasn't fast, but, it also wasn't slow. BUT, it was 5 miles! ALL IN A ROW!!!! I'll run 3-4 tomorrow night and then take Friday off before the race.

ran a mile this morning with the kids and then ran 3.1 tonight at the gym. I also signed up for this run for next Saturday. Yes, it's a 5 miler. It should be FANTASTIC! I'm sooo excited!

Freaking fabulous 3.11! Just wonderful! I re-joined the local 24-hour gym down the street from the house and ran a quick (ha!) 3 miler. I am sweaty and feeling re-energized! WOOHOO!!!!!

Running....glorious running! I ran just about 4 miles today. It was FABULOUS!!! I was pushing the running stroller w/Megan in it and Molly rode her 2 wheeler. What a good run! We made 3 stops. Once at the gas station for gum and more ice for the water bottle. Then we stopped at McDonald's for lunch. Then we stopped at the grocery store for a some groceries. Yeah, that was super smart. 3 miles in and I decide to add 25 MORE pounds to the stroller already pushing a 27lb 2 year old. Yeah. Fun last mile. LOTS of sweating and a bit of cussing. BUT, I'm home now and my quads feel fab and so do my shins. I was really worried how my legs would handle today. So far, so good! It was HOT and humid outside, too!

Well....I better go put crabby Megan down for a nap.

Oh, man...almost 4 months. Wow!!! Finally back to running. I think my badly sprained ankle can FINALLY handle it. It really sucked. I sprained it at the beginning of May and it's been a LONG LONG road to get to finally run again. I lost almost the ENTIRE summer of races I wanted to run in. I can't run the 1/2 marathon I wanted to. I have NO BASE at all right now. I ran almost 2 miles last night pushing my new running stroller and it SUCKED. Probably the hardest part was I had all 3 kids with me. Molly is 6 and just got rid of her training wheels. She did GREAT on her 2 wheeler the whole time! Now, Seth on the other hand...oh, man....I see why animals eat their young!!! He can ride on 2 wheels better than Molly, but, he refused to ride anything other than Molly's old bike with training wheels. THEN he would just take off and go crazy-fast down the street. He was 2 blocks ahead of me at one time. I was yelling for him and running pushing the running stroller as fast as I could. I wanted to ring his neck! I will NOT be taking him on a run/bike ride for a while. What a turd. My quads are killing me today, but, tomorrow they'll be better. I'm hoping to get out tomorrow during the day with the kids and do a little ride/run, but, Molly has a dentist appointment in the middle of the day for a filling, and I work tomorrow night, so I'm not sure it'll happen then. I'm off Thursday without a single thing planned, so maybe then.

21 days....just 21 GLORIOUS days until both Molly AND Seth go to school! WOOHOO!!!!!

7 years ago yesterday (April 21st) my 18 year old sister Julie died in a car accident. I miss her so much. She would be 25 now. There are so many things I wish I could share with her....I wish she could be a part of my kids' lives and not just in stories I tell them about her. I wish she could cheer me on when I run in the 1/2 marathon. I wish she could be there when Molly has her Kindergarten graduation. Man....it just sucks to have birthdays for the kids and not have her there. Sunday was tough having Megan's 2nd birthday without her auntie Julie. Life really hurts sometimes......

Wow...I pretty much suck at blogging lately. Molly turned 6 on the 1st of April. Wow. SIX!!!! Just crazy! Megan is going to be 2 on Sunday. It just boggles the mind that I have a 6 year old, 4 year old and a (almost) 2 year old. Just crazy......

I'll be running this race on October 4th. How fun!!!! I'll be running the 1/2 marathon for sure. I'm 2 weeks into my training. For the next 6 weeks the training for 1/2 marathon and full marathon is exactly the same, so, at that time, I'll switch to the full marathon training. IF I can do it without killing myself, I'll be running the full marathon. I'll be registering for the 1/2 next week. I can change the registration to the full within 3 weeks of the race without penalty, so, I'll be fine either way. As a family we'll be doing a family vacation at the same time. I still have to reserve the hotel room, but, it's off-season in the Black Hills during the race, so, we should have no problem making the reservations.