Hello friends!

I hope everyone had a Safe and Fun 4th of July!!   I love that it fell on a Sunday this year and I got Monday off… my plans for today are to do NOTHING.

Zilch.

Nada.

Nothing.

I feel like I’ve been running around like the proverbial chicken with no head lately and I could use a day of nothingness.   Well, after my run that is.  

I got up early to squeeze in a 5k and once I started running I figured I’d make it a quick one.  At the beginning of the year I set a goal to run a 5k in 30 min or less so I wanted to see where I’m at.   I ran the first mile at my regular pace, 2nd mile a bit faster and gave it all I had in the 1.1 and hot damn, I’m not too far off!!!  

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Looks like I just need to shave off about 51 seconds off my time and I’m golden!!  Unfortunately that is very easily said, not so easily done… for ME anyway. 

Of course this is a solo run on a course I’ve ran 100’s of times around my neighborhood and the weather was ideal.  My tummy wasn’t feeling too hot though because yesterday some BBQ’d ribs found their way into my mouth…  I’m still so amazed at how much better I feel and run when I eliminate meat from my diet.  But for me sometimes the taste and smell are just too much for me and I cave…and then regret it later.  Oh well progress not perfection right??     

So now I’ve got a 5k coming up this Sunday.  It’s the Angel’s All-Star 5k (hosted by the Anaheim Angel’s baseball team) and Jillian Michaels will be there at the finish line… I’m just wondering if there is any chance, in a BIG crowd of people I can meet my 30 minute time goal.  We’ll see I guess. 

So yesterdays festivities were fairly low key, just me and 2 of the 3 kiddos… we had a quiet, fun and relaxing day. 

We BBQ’d, ate outside, made some s’mores

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and did some illegal sparklers… we’re rebels like that. 

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Then the kids climbed up on the roof to watch Disneyland’s fireworks.  While I had a heart attack snapped some pics.

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It was a nice night…

So tell me what YOU think,  I’ve been having an internal debate over this.  If I run 3.1 on my own in 30 minutes or less would you consider that goal being met or would it have to be ran in an official 5k to be met??   I’m not sure why I go back and forth on this… but really I have.  What are YOUR thoughts?

Have a great Monday everyone!!  

xoxo