Jingle Bell Run

Saturday I ran my first ever 5k run, 3.2 miles. About 2 months ago I started running, not sure why just thought I would try it see if it was a sport I would enjoy. I found out I did. I wanted to run a 5K and was planning on doing one in March as my first one but then I heard about this one and decided to go for it. As the date got closer I wasn't sure if I should still run it as I mentioned earlier in my post below the last couple of weeks have been more than hectic. I haven't been able to run as often as I wanted to help me meet my goal time for the 5K, but I decided the heck with it. I am going to run it just to run it and not have a goal time on this one. My only request to God was that there would not be 40 mph winds that morning it was going to be cold enough without wind to help out. He was gracious to me, very little wind. I got there a little early to register and then Chris and the girls came later before we started.

I got a chance to get a pick with my cheering group before the race started. See Katie's mega phone, thought it was cute she brought it along.


The girls and I trying to stay warm before the race started. It was so cold. We were jogging in place, jumping and doing jumping jacks to get the blood flowing.

And we were off.....there were so many people there. Katie and Bree were yelling "go mommy, go mommy" through Katie's mega phone. When I stared the race I had a long sleeve shirt on, fleece jacket, ear warmers and gloves. Even though it was cold by the end of the race I had taken my jacket, ear warmers and gloves off.

The run itself was pretty easy, until around the 2 mile mark I was running down a hill and was following along and took a right into a park and before me was at least a 70 degree hill. I didn't know hills like this existed in Oklahoma. I told Chris I felt like a cartoon character just running and running and not going anywhere. The hill about killed me but I made it up and thankfully the rest of the way back was pretty much flat. I was getting really tired towards the end but I was deteremed to run it all. All I can say I was so thankful to see in my site the finish line. When I ran across the finish line I did a big jump in the air. I was just so happy that I finished and that I finished in 36:12. I really thought it would take me longer since I didn't run much the last couple of week.

Now that I have completed this goal I am on to the half marathon training. I started this week in a training program to run a half marathon in May in Oklahoma City. I am excited to to meet this goal because I honestly thought I could never run 3 miles.