Young Party of Four

We returned this year to the Run 4 Love that is part of the Track Shack Running Series. And this year, we brought along the family. Nana came into town on Friday night so she could be there to watch the kids. This time though, we decided that all three of them would come with us and then the kids could run the kids' race after the 4 mile. We got everyone up at the crack of dawn (technically before) and were quickly on our way to Winter Park. Actually, with us moving around, both kids woke up on their own which helps because sometimes Will is a bear if you wake him up instead of letting him do it alone. Kenzie was up early enough to get dressed which helped. Otherwise we would have needed to change both kids when we got there so this was good. The drive there was quick and easy but we noticed immediately how foggy it was. That fog actually hung around for the majority of the run. It was pretty serious that morning.  When we got to the start of the race, we got Will dressed a...

As 2017 is winding down, Steven and I have been talking about all the races we did and the training we did to get there and thought it would be fun to take a picture of all of our race shirts/medals. That led to us talking about how much we have run overall. And that led to us deciding to do a brief recap. This year we ran quite a few races. All but one had shirts and most had medals. Here's how it all went down: January - No Races February - Run 4 Love 4 Mile March - No Races April - Iron Girl Clearwater 5k  - Kristen Only             IOA Corporate 5k - Steven Only              RunDisney Star Wars 10k July - Watermelon 5k August -  Celebration of Running 5k September - Battle of the Bands 5k - Steven Only October -  U Can Finish 5 Mile November - Turkey Trot - Steven Only December - Reindeer Run I did the Iron Girl alone (with my mom and sis-in-law) be...

So, in the next couple of weeks we will be running our first race of the season. We have a few races planned out over the next few months already and have even already registered for a couple. Let's back up though. I think I have covered this before but "race season" is not something set in stone but it sort of follows a school type calendar around here, it seems. At least that is how I think of it. It starts in the fall and goes through to spring. You find races in the summer, but they are fewer and farther between. That's fine though because for anyone that has run in Florida in the summer... that time of the year is torture. I would make the assumption that race season changes based on where you are located as I would think running in summer in places like Minnesota is more preferred to running in the winter. I can only speak for our local "season". This summer has been... iffy... for us. We didn't really do the things I think we planned as far...

Another month has come to an end in 2017. This year seems to be flying by. We have continued with our Second A Day project and are loving it more and more everyday. This month we did a lot of fun things and it was actually really difficult to use just one second per day of a video. We had some days that we could have used three or four different videos and plenty of days that a second or two seemed way too short but we tried to keep it within reason. I have also been dealing with some technical issues this month that almost sidelined our project. First off, my phone has a major issue with the motherboard that causes it to have severe glitching and static on one side almost constantly. Ironically, the phone still works underneath the static so I could still take videos. I just had some issues doing it because I can still only see half the screen. Until I get home and put the video on the computer, I can't actually see it well enough to know if I got what I meant to get. We'v...

Happy (almost) Valentine's Day! This year we decided to take a run before Valentine's Day. Honestly, Valentine's Day is a minimal holiday around here. Usually we get the kids a couple tiny things and we sometimes get each other something very small but we don't do dinner out or anything and we haven't had a true date night in about 2 years anyway so even if we were to do dinner... we would probably have the kids with us anyway. =) In lieu of all that though, we decided to take on the Run 4 Love 4 mile race in Winter Park the weekend before Valentine's Day. It nice because although we don't run together, we at least get some alone time in the car, before and after the race, and we often stop for breakfast after we run. Nothing major... but it's how we roll. Or run rather. This was our first race on a Saturday. Not sure why Sundays tend to be preferred for races... but they are. This one was Saturday though which ended up working out well because we w...