Turpentine 5K

Guess what?! Mollie and I ran our very first 5K! I really can't believe we did it! I've been wanting to do one forever, but then it got hot and then I hadn't trained and excuses excuses. So, Mollie reminded me of this one and I told her we weren't ready. She insisted we could do it. So the thursday before the race we "practiced". I just wanted to make sure I could kind of do it before I wasted my money. Well, we did. Took 54 minutes, but we did it. Mollie had a hard time (more on that in a minute), but we decided to do it. Mollie convinced her friend and her dad to do it with us to. So we were on. Saturday we were so excited... up early and everything. Ready, Set, go..... we were off. And man, Mollie was off. I kept telling her to be careful because we've never gone that fast before, but she wanted to keep up with her friend and her dad. I was left behind. It was kind of tough with all the hills, but so fun. It went right by our house and my kids and husband were cheering me on. They told me Mollie was 5 min ahead. I got to a point and they told me it was only 3/4 mile left. What?! I can do this. I saw Mollie up ahead and encouraged her to keep going (she got left behind her friend too). When I got to the end. YEAH!!! I got 39 min 58 seconds. and Mollie.... who had had a hard time with her mom, got 35 min. I ws so proud of her. I realize to you who may have done this before, 40 min is a slower of time, but for me, who couldn't even run 6 months ago, and had never ran more that 2 miles in her LIFE (well, I'm sure I've done enough bleacher running to equal that... but that was another life) I am happy with me. Now I can see how this can be addicting. I told Mollie we could get matching shirts and we both need new running shoes. But yeah! Anyways, here's the pics.