Warming Up

This weekend, we decided to head to Madison for the Madison Quarter Marathon. The whole story about why we decided to go was quite humorous. Our friends have run in the race the past few years and afterwards always have a great post-race BBQ. After talking it through, we decided to sign up and head to Mad Town. When I ended up talking to Ms. B to cordinate her watching Ian and Kyra, I found out that Mr. S & Co. didn't sign up BUT that was no reason not to have the post-race party.

So, I got to run the race "with" Rich. As you notice, I put that in quotes as he took off like a jackrabbit on steroids at the opening bullhorn. I didn't see him until the finish line. We both finished with good times. I ran in 58:51 which put me 12th out of 87 in my division and 106th amongst 624 females.

All in all, it was a nice warm up for the Bellin in three weeks and a nice half trial run!

And the winner is . . .

ME!!!!

I just about fell out of my chair when I saw the final triathalon results that were posted today.

"For I can do everything with the help of Christ who gives me the strength I need." - Philippians 4:13 (NLT)

It's Racin' Time!

Ok, technically, we still have a couple of months before we get into peak road race season, but today was the first road race of the year for me. I got up in the pre-dawn hours (after a late night scrapbooking) to run in the Seroogy's Valentine 5K in DePere. The weather could not have been more perfect! I think it was around 40 degrees at race time. I finished in 29 minutes, 13 seconds which put me 8th overall in my age class (37 total) and 69th out of 417 for all of the women. My times can only improve from here. Next up is the YMCA Indoor Triathalon right here in town in two weeks.