I met up with Amber and Rachelle this morning. I did a total of about 9 1/2 miles in 1:14.30. I felt great this morning. After about 30 min, I began a mini tempo. I wasn’t going all out, I just picked the pace up to a strong solid run. Gradually throughout the tempo my pace would quicken. It was about a 3 mile stretch of the tempo. I felt like I could have and should have kept going… but because I was running with others, I turned around and met back up. (Amber did the tempo also and Rachelle was on a recovery run.) I am excited to get things going again. I need to make sure that I don’t dive in to fast and wear/burn myself out before the summer is over. (This is long term thinking.) 🙂 I do love workouts like today where I leave off wanting to do more…
After school we made sugar cookies and decorated them for our Christmas activity.
It was a little messy! 🙂
We then had the Fullmer’s, Moser’s, Martin’s, and J. Anderson over for dinner and cheese cake for Z’s (our Foriegn exchange student) birthday. We all had a lot of fun.
The girls went to bed and 3 other running friends, Corom and Mike Fullmer and I showed up at Mac’s house (for her b-day) and the 2 did “Hoppy/Moo” birthday. It was great.
What a day…
It is Z’s birthday. Her friends came over for breakfast (we had it here because the place they wanted to go to wasn’t open yet…
They left for school and shortly after Corom, the kids and I picked up balloons and showed up in her math class at the high school. It was a singing telegram from Corom…
Someone else took a better video that I hope to get. She loved it! After that, Corom went to work, the 2 older girls went to school and I went and helped in my 2nd child’s classroom for a while.
I met up with Mac, Amber, Aubrey, Beth and Trisha for a 8 mile morning run. I was done in 1:04.44. We ran past Salem pond hoping the lights were still on but they weren’t. 😦 Overall… It was a good run!
For our Christmas activity for the day we went to the rehabilitation center (nursing home). We went from room to room and sang 3 songs to each person (that was awake :)).
It was so amazing this time… I don’t know if it is because our girls are getting older, or that they know the songs better, or are not as shy but we all felt the spirit so strong (at least Corom and I did). Last year was more of a headache with our girls running around everywhere.
This time, a few of the ladies cried. I know they were crying because they were happy but it made me a little sad. We,as a community, need to visit the people in the center more!
Anyway… It was fun and the girls and Z (our Foriegn exchange student) enjoyed it.
But of course when we got home the girls started right up with the fighting! Nothing new!
Mother Racer 