Beach to Bay Pictures!

Beach to Bay was a blast! Though it was insanely HOT and HUMID (isn't it always in CC?), I had so much fun and I took 11 minutes off my time from last year!!!!

I am going to continue running! :) In fact, my good friend Anna and I are entertaining the idea of running a half marathon in December....except that I saw it's actually in October...we shall see....

PRE Beach to Bay

Today is Beach to Bay...I'm the last leg, again (by choice), so I'm being picked up in about an hour to head to my hand off point and wait until Michelle hands off to me. I'm super excited that it's B2B day. Except that I feel horrible...I woke up several times in the night (possibly because of all the water I drank yesterday?) so I'm tired. I have a headache/stomach ache, which I was thinking was nerves, but I'm thinking I'm running a fever too. UGH.

More update later (probably tomorrow--I've got a busy day today)...as well as pictures. =)

Beach to Bay Pictures

Well, my team ran it in 5 hours & 12 minutes! So exciting! We are talking about possibly running in more races together throughout the next year until the next Beach to Bay & trying to beat our times!

anyway, here are some pictures:

our Oso Creek Jersey's (on the back, it said "I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me") and our team number: 1362! (there were over 1700 teams!)
this one is of the timing chip that i had to attach to my shoe---at the finish, i ran over a sensor that marked my time. pretty cool...

this was me on the way to the race---when i realized it was actually happening.

Colleen & I after she ran her leg, but before I ran mine!
It was so much fun! Although I am VERY sore today.

I did it!

I ran in Beach to Bay!

My team finished in 5 hours 12 minutes, and something seconds.

I did my 4.4 miles in a little over an hour. (like an hour 5, i think).

I'm exhausted.

Pictures & more to come at a later date. :)

Excited, Nervous, Scared

Not sure which I'm more of right now...

BEACH TO BAY IS TOMORROW MORNING!!!!!!!!!

I don't know what to do...i'm too excited to sleep, but I'm exhausted from a long day.

All I know is that once this is over, I'm totally going SWIMMING! Yay!

All nighter...almost

So, I had to teach a Bible study tonight in my Principles of Teaching in the Church class (which went very well, and Ruthie came and watched me!!! YAY!)
So, last night, of course, I was freaking out because I didn't have it prepared. So, I went and got a huge starbuck's vanilla frappuccino from circle k & went to Megan's house. I mean, i figure if I'm going to be up all night, I might as well let her sleep and keep baby boy, right (i'm such a good cousin by the way)? So, I stayed up & studied & about 4am, I was exhausted. So, I got into bed...and what do I hear? baaaaa. maaaa... baaaaa... (also known as baby boy's goat noises). So, at 415am, I was back up. He finally went to sleep at 5am, & I was up at about 630 or 645 when I heard Aunt Maggie come in the room. So...about an hour and a half of sleep. And let me tell you, I'm functioning pretty well for me.

BUT, I'm going to bed now.

Looking forward to a fun day tomorrow:
1) Babysitting the Lierman's :)
2) Possibly lunch with Juillet (maybe Olive Garden?)
3) Shopping! (gotta get khaki's and a blue shirt for pics)
4) Babysitting the McDermott's
5) Slumber Party @ Megan's

and somewhere in there, studying & i'm going to start running again since beach to bay is in like 2 weeks---crap.

ONLY 2 DAYS OF CLASSES LEFT (FINALS) ---MONDAY is Government, Theatre, and Western Civilization---WEDNESDAY is Swimming---and, technically THURSDAY is going out to eat with my class (we did the lesson as a final tonight!).

Beach to Bay

So I decided to run in Beach to Bay this year. I've never run in any races other than back in P.E. when I was little. I figured out it's been 10 years since I've run. I've been training about two weeks now, and I am already seeing a lot of progress. I am really excited & I'm looking forward to loosing weight too.

I am running the final leg of the race, which really excites me. It's going to be great to say "I crossed the Finish line." I can't wait!