Mother Racer

After the race we went to Disneyland.

Corom was a little scared… It was the new “Cars” ride.

The best roller coaster at Disneyland is probably “Screamin'”.

Ignore the numbers up in the corner… That was the number of our photo. We went on the swing ride…

Well I guess 3 of the coaches/chaperones were goofing off to much and got kicked off…

My kids are hanging out with their cousins while we are in California. It looks like they are having a blast… But it looks cold!

Hopefully they are being good for my sister.

As we loaded the bus this morning to head over to Mt. Sac, we noticed a room full of 4 girls were missing. It was 6:45 at the time and my race started at 7:30. I ran upstairs and knocked on their door… Um yeah… I woke them up. We left at 5 after 7. I was able to warm up for 5 min before my race started. We had our freshman/sophomore race 15 minutes after mine started… They were a little nervous! We actually bumped them back into another race but for me I had to go. It went well…

As I stated yesterday, this course is one of the toughest 5k courses I’ve raced (I used to run this course in high school). Very hilly but probably my favorite 5k! (The route we raced was a little shy of a 5k)…

I ran a 18:22 and took 4th. There were some fast runners there. It was fun (once I was almost done :)). It did take me a good mile to get into it but that is when the major hills started. To tell you the truth… I am so glad I ran though. I wasn’t planning on it until the last minute. I ran a total of 60 minutes today. Good run today!

We brought 44 high school kids to this race. I was able to warm up with some of the kids (which was a great shakeout -cool down run for me to loosen up my legs). They all did well. I was pleased with the kids. Many of them ran their PR’s, a few ran through migraines, cramping, sicknesses and injuries. They figured that they came this far that they had to race. It did start raining on a lot of the races but it made it more fun in the mud. 🙂

This young lady (on our team) was looking tired. She was one of the girls that accidentally slept in this morning. I yelled at her that she shouldn’t be tired because she had more sleep than anyone. 🙂 Yeah… We thought that was pretty funny. Last picture is of Z (our Foriegn exchange student) and the other exchange student.

I wish I could put every bodies picture up! Every year we have a tradition of running back to the hotel. Because of the rain this is the only hard core 2 that joined Corom and I…

Oh and of course Corom was up to his usual pranks at the race. Coach Thompson was in this porta-pottie…

We drove to Huntington Beach after our run/packet pickup today. The weather was a lot nicer than I thought it would be.

It did take me a long time to get in (and a wet suit). 🙂

Everyone had fun playing around. It was nice to sit (with Corom) and relax for a bit!

The other coaches, chaperones and I walked out onto the pier. We ran into this…

It let us get so close to it. We, then, headed to Ruby’s to eat.

The hamburgers are so good there. We all had a great time hanging out at the beach. It was so beautiful there!

On our way back to our hotel we were stuck in “California” traffic…

We got up early and went and ran the footlocker 5k course. (We had to pick up packets , too.)

Corom goofed off as usual. Running through barb wire, hoping walls, etc…

This course is a tough, hilly course. It was fun hearing all the comments from everybody as we were running up the hills.

Once we finished running the course, the kids got in line to get their numbers… We were at the front (thank goodness). The lines got so long!!!

As they were waiting in line I continued with my run. I ran the course again and then some. I wasn’t registered to race tomorrow so I went long and ran the hills. It wiped me out. 🙂 I ran for 51:45 (the 1st 20 min with the kids and the rest on my own).

I went over and talked to the race directors… They gave me a free entry. To tell you the truth… I was a little bummed. 🙂 But I guess, I need to change my attitude… bring it on Mt. Sac (hopefully Mt. Sac doesn’t get me ;)).