"Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Friday, Saturday, Saturday to Sunday."

"Get get get get with us, you know what we say, Say---
Party everyday! P-P-P-Party everyday!"

This weekend rocked. Saturday morning I ran in the 1st Annual Bella Vista 5K. I'd promised myself I would take it easy, since I had the 10K coming up a day later, but "taking it easy" was impossible on this 5K course. It was insane. I think the entire 3rd mile was uphill...STEEP uphill. I am still sore from when we did a practice run of the course on Thursday night!

Aaron was a volunteer for the event, so Kasey was wonderful and watched this little guy so I could run.

5K: I ended up coming in 6th place for the women overall! What the---me? Yes!

I took 2nd place for my age group...which is usually the fastest age group, but for this particular race I guess I lucked out that they didn't come because they must have all been home-saving up their energy to kick my trash in the 10K 49hrs later (which, don't worry they did!).Looking pretty schwetty, there Meg~
Crossing the finish line.

Kasey even thought to take a pic of my time just after I finished! Another minute off and a new PR! I'm especially excited about that, since a new personal record for this course didn't happen for most people that ran. It feels good to know that I'm still improving and that I have more to do.

About 20 minutes later, they started the 1K race. We put the Cheeto and Q in the double jogger and told Reese to "run as much as you can".

WOW SHE DID.

No really, my kid can run. She was weaving in and out of the crowd of kids so quickly that I had to leave Aaron with the stroller behind the crowd and weave through to catch up with her...which was not easy. She is fast! She ended up running just shy of 1/2 mile before she slowed down to walk for a minute...but then we rounded the corner and saw the finish line and she took off again! Great job, Reese!
I was so worried she was going to trip and faceplant on the asphalt on the downhill stretch. She was flying down the road like a bat out of Hell. Her little arms pumped back and forth perfectly controlled while her tiny legs flailed about so quickly I was sure she was going tofall and get hurt. I kept saying, "be careful! slow down! don't fall" until finally she said,

"Mom, it's O-KAY...I KNOW what I am DOing! Hurry, we gotta pass all these kids!"

What a little competitor!

She ended up finishing 1K (.6 miles) at about 7 minutes. QUincy climed out of the stroller for the last few yards to dash across the finish line as well.
At the end we were actually running to keep up with her...she was fast!

It turns out that several people in the 1K were given the wrong directions and turned into a subdivision...oops! Since the race was such a short one, they decided to do a second one for anyone who turned the wrong way, or just wanted to participate again. Quincy was already in the stroller, so I thought we'd enjoy another run just for the fun of it.

Every picture Kasey took of Quincy looks like this one. Finger either in nose or in mouth.
Gross.

Following the race there was a pancake breakfast and free swimming for the families.
Fun day! More to come of our busy busy weekend and how we spent the remainder of Saturday, 'cus it was "a good good night..."