So a recap of last week. I was honored to spend my "weekend" with Rosalie since mom and dad went back to work. I received a detailed email weeks in advance on what to expect, etc. I arrived early on Thursday only to find no one home. Immediately I panicked. Did I go to the wrong place? Wrong time? I called Alex and no answer.. then Ron shows up with Rosalie. PHEW! Ron got her settled and did not want to leave. I could see he would rather spend time with Rosalie than go to work. Who wouldn't? Rosalie and I hung out all day. I took some pictures and sent them to Alex and updated via email when possible. On day one, I got spit up twice on my shirt. O well. It was part of signing up for the job. On day 2, my pants were soiled. Rosalie was eating and all of a sudden something was warm and wet. Of course I knew what it was and with quick thinking, she went straight to the changing table minus the bottle and quickly got changed. I think it was part user error and part full diaper. Anyways... lesson learned! The day went by so fast both days. I tried the second day to bring a watch with me to remember when I fed, changed, she slept, etc. My watch was getting in the way so I just kept the phone close to me... after all it has a clock on it.
On to race day.... I for some reason always still get super nervous when going out to do a race. Any race over a 5k is nerve racking to me but I love it! Saturday was no different. I got up, got my act together, grabbed my stuff and headed to WS for the race. I got there early and hung out in my car. I knew where the race was starting was a particular difficult area for me to navigate. I have gotten myself lost and in a fit over being lost many times. I also was warned that there was not much parking there. I knew that after the race I would have to go to work so I wanted to be close to the shower area. I went and picked up my registration which was pretty easy and then just sat and waited. I ate a pbj and surfed the internet on my phone. 15 minutes before the race started, someone announced that it would be delayed. Uggg. I had to get to work. I quickly calculated time frames and realized I would be late to work if I did do the half marathon. With a sad and angry heart I realized that the 5k would have to do for the day. There had to have been some reason for me not being able to do the half. I knew I had a calf cramp the night before and it was sore so who knows... anyways I went out to get in line for the 5k. There were TONS of people. And tons of kids. Kids EVERYWHERE! I have never seen so many kids at one race before. There were girls on the run girls, other kids groups, ymca groups, etc. And the kids were very misbehaved. They were tripping eachother, pulling on each other, etc. I was not able to get a groove til about .4-.5 miles in. I knew this was going to happen because of the amount of people there. (there were over 500 girls ages 5-18 racing and I dont know how many boys) I did finish under 30 minutes but dont see my race time anywhere. I was happy that my time was under 30 but I wanted to be closer to 28 instead of 29 min. There is always room for improvement. :)
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