beyond 12 weeks down, -4 DAYS LEFT!!

I dont even know what to say, or how to start this.  My blog of 12 weeks at a time was meant to help inspire me as well as keep me accountable for my actions.  Writing it weekly helps me assess where I am, while tracking where I was, and  helps me consider where I may want to go.  ---  This is it, the final week, actually 4 days left until the 5k goal! -- I thought the Carmel Valley 5k was my goal, and it was my intended goal.  It now seems so trivial.  I ran the 5k Rum Run 2 weeks ago, and it was fun!  Simply put fun!  The best part was passing people, I actually passed people!  and I did finish before my son, despite my son passing me four different times! Also the looks on the  faces of the officers running security on the course, they were all smiles --like I could almost hear them saying "good for you" -- cause yeah I don't look like the average runner but yet there I was, a 5k runner, running.

Smiles before and after!

           Bo asked me if  I blogged about the 5k and I said I had been too busy.  As great an accomplishment it was, it was an expected accomplishment.  I did text him right after with my time just short of 42 mins which is not by any means a stellar time but it was all running time!  (and a good 15+mins better than the CV5k last year!). What started off as a possibility but highly unlikely, that is my running the 5k in its entirety, (no walk/runs, just run!) turned into a reality while training with Bo. It no longer seemed unlikely it seemed definite.  And it feels like riding a bike, once you master how on your own, you don't forget.  Knowing I can run a 5k takes less pressure off  me and that pressure can be applied to improving my 5k time.  I'm really not to concerned with my time, I know it will improve as I continue to improve. I just registered for the Mermaid Half Marathon San Diego, I am doing the 5k.  I have no interest in doing a half ever, a 10k probably. Bo tells me I will be doing 10ks and I will move into half marathons eventually.  He could be right- its just not an impulse I have. As for now, I'm having fun running the 5ks!
     
        People run for lots of reasons. I like to be athletic although since motherhood took over seems like all I am is mothered! I wanted to run the CV5k last year, because my kids said they could, and my son did. My daughter did not and so I did not. But if my daughter were able to run the 5k I still was not able to.  As a parent I ask myself how can I expect my kids to do what I cannot do myself? We definitely lead by example and children are more likely to do as you do not as you say. Overall my ultimate goal in this venture was to be fit for them to follow.  I'm not there yet-but the beautiful thing is  that there really is no end point! Its not like if I accomplish running a marathon in  4 hours and 45 mins. I can then declare I am now "fit". Being fit is much more than body weight and fat percentage. Its all inclusive- physically, emotionally, financially and with so many obstacles along any given course the starting line rotates its waves and the finishing line is no where in sight! --- Up next CV5k!

CHEERS!