HUMPH!!!

I'm sure that most of you have read my sweet daughter, Kiersten's blog & know that her, Zach & her friend Ashton all ran the Run for the Berries 5K in Starlight this morning & they all did a good job. There were some doosies of hills along the way too! I'm proud of all 3 of them for completing the race with good times.

On to the humph part - I guess that Kiersten isn't very impressed that her ol' mom WALKED the same 5K that they ran. Yeah, yeah I know it is much harder to run than it is to walk - I get that, but darn it I'm A LOT older than they are too.

I'm sure that I looked like a huge dork because I was walking as fast as I could the entire race, even up the monster hills - my time was 39.55 - not that far behind those whipper snapper's, right?

One other thing - I do have to brag I won a TROPHY - WOO HOO! No I wasn't the first walker across the line, but I sure did try to be. My trophy is for finishing first for my age group of 39 & under. That is the first age group so there were some younger ones out there that I did beat & umm in all fairness I guess that I should tell you that some of them were pushing strollers too.

There was one lady that was in her late 40's that I tried & tried to catch up with. After the 2 mile mark & had her! I was trucking up those hills & then there was this monster hill & I marched right up that thing just a huffing & puffing & panting all the way. I had her! I was ahead of her, I was going to beat this experienced power walker....NOT. She kicked my ASS! She came in 1.30 ahead of me. I wasn't happy, but thank goodness she was another age group up from me so I still came away with a trophy. I had a ball & I'm going to walk the Barnyard Dash at Hubers in a couple of weeks.

Maybe I'll get up to running eventually & then the kids can be proud of their old mom hahaha - not. I probably embarrass them if the truth be known. Poor kids.