Blowin it up! 5k style

2012 Midsummer Nights Run

NAME: 3253 - Stephanie G.
CHIP TIME:   53:43
PACE:  17:18

I'm so ecstatic! I finished my very first 5K and in under 1 hour! Not many people at my weight can say that, I know I've been reading fat peoples blogs for a while  now, thanks to MyFitnessPal!  But I woke up this morning! (Thank you God!) And I have to admit, I was not sore, not one bit! Seven full days of excercising, and just the first day or so have I been sore. So I decided to relax and take it easy, go enjoy the day at the park with my little one! 

By 3:30 I was antsy to move, I needed it! Food is not my only vice I'm giving up, but that is a later story. I got Madison home, and I fixed her bikes flat tires and raised her seat (Single moms have to do this sort of stuff!). It has been a year since she has ridden it! (Now it time for a new bike, the seat is at the very top, the girl will not stop growing!) I put it in the front seat and we headed out to Wellington Park, now I have seen people walking and riding bikes...but I didn't know the trail at all. So I pulled in and parked. We started at what I though was the start, but it wasn't come to find out. So Madison made the first 1.15 miles no problem on her bike. I myself had a little bladder issue and had to stop halfway through, but on the start 2nd lap going on 2 miles,there was trouble, Madison was tired. She kept falling off the bike. So I gave her an option on our way back towards the car, the little girl pushing like crazy, I ask her if she wants to go back to the car or go all the way back around the long way to finish the lap. She looks up at me, with a questioning look squinting her eyes, and says she wants to go all the way back around. I said OK lets do it then!  So we both persevered through the next 3/4 of a mile. We did a total of 3.25 miles in 63 minutes. She got to the very end and jumped off her bicycle and with her arms in the air yelled "I DID IT I DID IT!" I am so thankful for that little 5 year old girl! She pushes me even when she doesn't know it! I am so proud of her!