Nobody reads this anymore and I don't post to it but I do like to look back at the yearly Christmas cards so I'm making that post. This year I designed 2 cards and this one printed way off center. The other one printed better but I forgot to screen shot it.
We have been going to the beach a lot this summer but this was our first trip to a much closer beach. I compiled a quick video. Overall the sand area was super small but Liam still had fun and managed.
Dealing with 3 kids with 3 different swim abilities is not easy with just 1 adult.
I've taken the kids to the water park and theme park a few times. I compiled videos twice but we went more than twice. Here we went on 7/12 and 7/16.
I made a short on youtube so I can't embed that here very well.
I took 3 kids so we didn't go in the pool and then I took 2 kids while Liam was at preschool and we only swam. Traffic was really bad so we took more time driving to and from than we got to spend there in order to get home in time to get Liam from preschool.
I ran my first half marathon in 7 years. I was supposed to run 3 or well 2 halfs and 1 18 mi race last racing season and I didn't get to do any of them.
It was my worst half to date. It was also my first half since having 3 kids. And my first half since having 2 kids. So since 3 kids it's a PR.
lack of food day before
lack of sleep
boxed in
messed up garmin
Well it's 2.5 months later and the above is all I have written for the blog post.
To elaborate, I was boxed in for about 9 miles of the 13.1. That was so annoying. It was really hard when I wanted to do run:walk intervals but you could barely get past anyone so if you stopped to walk then you couldn't pass people again.
The weather was horrible.
I feel like I mentioned lack of food the day before but 2.5 months later I don't even remember those details.
I over dressed then spent a good 4 minutes trying to get my vest and hoodie off and figure out how to hold them. I was also dealign with my hydration vest so I had to take that off to take layers off. The weather was unseasonably cold. It was a cold rain.
I didn't start my garmin as a normal run or a half marathon. it was set as a long run. I thought I'd just advance the lap at the 1 mile mark and it'd fix itself. I forgot that would advance to the optional run and miss the hour or more of the regular run. So around 40 minutes in, I realized my garmin had stopped. I started it again but I was missing over 5 minutes of distance and time. That added to confusion during the entire race.
The photos from the race said you could search by bib number but I think the weather messed that up because you couldn't read numbers on race bibs. I searched through all of the photos to find photos with me.
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| 6:55 Sunscreen |
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| 6:59 Energize |
I pinned my number, put on sunscreen, drank energize, and got in the bathroom line. I thought I had plenty of time so I waited in the real line versus using a portapotty. Well I got done there with 2 minutes or so before the start of the race.
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| 7:26 start line |
The race had 2 waves at the start but I'm not even sure when it was split. I was near 1:50 and 2:00 pacers and they were insanely close together waiting at the start. The start was wide and you had an entire lane at the beginning so I wasn't boxed in at all. It was really nice not being boxed in. I made marco polos to Beth and Ali during my race and saved them for some of howI was feeling. The last few miles I was just so hot that I didn't update.
After I finished I gave many race updates though. I can't believe my heart rate got up to 200.
I didn't arrive late for the first time. So that was nice to be able to use the bathroom and warmup before the race actually started.
I was waiting to post this for some race photos but they were lacking or not posted. The race director posted some photos and I was in 2 but he said look for the actual photographer photos coming soon and I never saw those. They were probably never posted because it's very difficult to post photos to the facebook page and I had a ton of issues when I did it. (I took photos at their 1/1/23 race.)
I did slower than last time but I didn't think I'd do that much slower.
| Perrigo parkrun results for event #120. Your time was 00:26:56. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Congratulations on completing your 3rd parkrun and your 3rd at Perrigo parkrun today. You finished in 28th place and were the 7th Female out of a field of 75 parkrunners and you came 1st in your age category VW35-39. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Perrigo parkrun remains 00:25:44. Your best time this year remains 00:25:44.
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It's been about 5 years since I did a day in the life post. I randomly thought about how I should type today. Google paid storage is too full so I don't have photos backed up so this will be without photos.
7:20 alarm went off and I hit snooze.
7:50-8:30 Got dressed and getting the kids ready for school.
Photobooked until Liam woke up (20 min or so)
Got Liam ready for school
Grocery store
Dropped Liam off at school. (~10:30)
Drove home forget what I did
Left for Trader Joe's
Got home, unpacked, groceries, immediately headed to a meeting.
Meeting location had to change on the fly since the Library isn't open.
Meeting until 12:45.
Drove home, wiped off the counters, put a frozen meal in the microwave and did follow-up to the meeting.
Ate and did follow-up to meeting.
Drove to where I pick up the kids. Ran. Had to cut the run short since I didn't have enough time.
Picked up the kids, listened to some jokes from Ella, took a shower, did some dental insurance stuff, emptied garbages, went and got Liam. Then I put in laundry since he had an accident during nap at school.
Dinner prep, dinner, photobooked while delaying going downstairs for Liam's bedtime. The kids complained about dinner but did better eating compared to normal. Also before dinner was ready, I gave them fruit and they ate 1.5 containers of strawberries that I just bought today. Had issues with photoboking and it took longer. I finished February 2020 in my photobooking.
Got Liam ready for bed but he's awake and I typed this at 10 pm. He will probably go to sleep by 11 pm and I realize I have to do 1 more workout to hit my January goal so I guess after he's asleep that's what I'm doing.
I feel like I had no time but old Day in the life posts were worse since I can sleep almost 8 hours and before I couldn't. (I try all the time to photobook and usually photobook twice a month but I managed to do a little 2 days in a row.)
I made random goals again and forgot about them again or didn't forget about them but then forgot to document. There are a lot of things not complete but I still think I did pretty well.
For 2022, here are my exercise goals and how I did:
Here are the details:
