Little Fish

We have been investing in swim lessons for Izzy since the fall and it sure has paid off!!! Last fall she wouldn't even put her face in the water at her first lesson and she required a floaty for swimming. Fast forward to now and she can swim with no floaty, dive to the bottom of the shallow end to get a diving stick and jump off a diving board without being caught! (with a life jacket ) Her confidence in the water has gone up so much! She absolutely LOVES the water. She spend majority of the weekend swimming at a friends pool. She never got out of the water until she was given no choice.  The beginning of last week she said she would NEVER go off the diving board...by the end of this weekend she was doing it all by herself while no one else was even in the pool!

She continues to work on learning the different strokes in swim lessons..she is learning freestyle, backstroke and breast stroke. She is in the last level of swim lessons before pre-team. I don't know if she will continue on to the swim team or not. She tends to fight organized activities...but we will see. She will be goign to camp at the Y for 5 weeks this summer and a swim lesson will be included in that as well.

It is so nice to be at a pool and watch her enjoy herself and not have to be in the water with her the whole time. It is going to be a GREAT summer!

First ever 10K- I DID IT!!!

I DID IT!!! I set this goal for myself and was so worried about being able to accomplish it. On Saturday May 12th I DID IT!!!! I completed my first ever 10K!! I was a nervous wreck before the race started. I ran it with my friend Becky who i have not seen in 2 years and it was so nice to be able to run the race with her. We turned out to be great partner's for each other pushing each other along the whole way. We ran the whole first 2 miles without stopping. I then had a stitch in my side and we walked a little bit after the first water station and then ran to the 3 mile marker and walked a few mins and then ran to the 4 mile marker.  Between mile 4-5 were the toughest for me. As we were walking up the one hill..my legs were so tight..but once i stopped and stretched them we ran from the top of the hill to the 5 mile marker. once we got to the 5 mile marker something took over in me. We walked for a little ways because Becky wanted to and then we ran....and i kicked into a gear i didn't know I had and ran the last .5 miles or so faster much faster than my pace for the first 5!!! When i rounded the corner and saw the finish line i seriously almost cried..i got so emotional! It felt so good to cross the finish line. My official time was 1:16:37. I wanted to be under 1:20 and i totally was.  It was a super fun race, beer tent at the end with dueling pianos...can't beat that! 


Some of the crowd getting ready to line up. The 5K race was first.  There were 4400 runners in teh 10K and a whole lot of runners in the 25K. I have never witness the finish of a race that long...very inspiring!!!

                                                                                     Here i am getting ready to run.

We Did it!!!                                                                                    Cheers!



I now know i can build on this milestone as I reach towards my crazy 13.1 miles in October.  I know i can do it with proper training. My biggest lesson is that I don't have to run the whole thing to be a runner...i can run walk with i need to and it is okay! That being said I have a 5k this Saturday and my goal is to run the whole thing without walking. I will keep you posted. I know i can do it. I have done it once before.