Day 1.
My daughter's school was doing a 5k as a fundraiser for the school. Before I had even decided to start myself down the path of healthy living "officially", I had already signed up the whole family to do the 5k. It just so happens the 5k fell on my first day of my journey! I wish I could take credit and claim genius for planning to do this 5k on day 1 as some sort of symbolic idea, but alas, I can't. It truly was just coincidence (or was it?)!
I really, truly wish I could have tried to see how far I could run the thing, REALLY. My mind said "YES!", but I knew my body would say "NO!" A couple months ago, I did some running on the track at the local rec center (where I go for most of my regular workouts) and I managed to strain my right hip extremely bad. I've never encountered an injury like that before from exercising, so I've been really concerned about re-injuring it, so I've ruled out street running for the time being until I can figure out what is really the issue. Fortunately, there is still plenty I can do to exercise besides street running!
So, once we were given the go-ahead, we took off, giant double stroller and all! I knew that there was no way we could run with that beastly thing and the kids, so we most definitely walked, but we walked like it was going out of style! I was so impressed that my oldest, KK, didn't even ask once to be carried! She did state that she was getting tired towards the end, but shoot! I don't blame her little twig 6-year-old legs after walking over 3 miles! A and M enjoyed the stroller. M passed out cold and A kept trying to talk to everyone we passed by, goofy kid! Thanks to the Husband-Guy pushing the stroller the whole way (even up the hill that I completely didn't anticipate), I was able to forge ahead and keep at the pace I was going. KK kept up with me and once we got close to the finish line back at the school, we ran and crossed the line feeling GREAT! KK and I finished in 57:04, which I figured wasn't bad at all with having the WHOLE family in tow! I, for sure, thought it would take over an hour because we'd have to slow down for the kids. So, yay for us!
When we were driving home, I asked KK if she had fun and of course she did! I also asked her if she wanted to do another 5K again and I heard a resounding "YES!" back! She was so proud to show everyone her racing number and t-shirt. I'm pretty happy about having my whole family involved in doing something healthy TOGETHER. The only way I'm going to be able to get healthy and stay healthy is if I have the support of my family!
