Double Digit Week!

Tonight I just completed my third run in 7 days putting me into double digit mileage! Woo hoo!  Folks, this is huge! I've been running a couple miles here and there but not this much in a week stretch since last November. Seriously, that's just as exciting as embarrassing.  So what triggered this week's motivation? We're well into swimsuit season, but we still have those 100* days to look forward to very soon. You would think that my upcoming race schedule would start "some" training, but not so much. Actually, this week we officially cancelled our Disneyland Avengers race for November. (We are going on an AMAZING family vacation and both trips would have Kinnick missing too many school days). So I can thank my Mom's Run This Town (MRTT) running group to get me back into running as well as writing my blog to stay accountable!

 

We had a blast celebrating the 4th of July.  I started the day off with a wonderful, local 5k scoring a cute medal, tech shirt, and a chance to wear my RunDisney Mickey NB shoes. Running through a muddy tunnel is as close to an obstical race as I'll get!  Later, I enjoyed more calories than I burned while celebrating with friends smoked BBQ, swimming, silly string, sparklers, and fireworks!

Besides running this week, I stayed busy as my newest role "swim mom" and loving it! Our kiddos got to swim at their first divisional's swim meet on Kyron's birthday.  We all had so much fun; I'm pretty sure I was just as, or more, excited than they were!  The day ended with lots of smiles while trying out some new gluten free favorites... Blaze Pizza and Unrefined Bakery- both off Preston and Warren in Frisco.  Yummo!

That's all for now- HK

eat, sleep, run, swim, and repeat

Last week was filled with eat, sleep, run, swim, and repeat!  Kinnick and Cooper have been swimming so much- loving every last minute of summer swim team.  Not only are they making friends, keeping active, and getting tan... They are tired by bedtime!  Me too!

Somebody didn't make it through Peppa Pig :)

Besides being a semi- stay at home mom, I really wanted to prove to my non handy husband that I could easily fix our leaking toilet flapper thingy (using my technical terms).  So... browsing the Lowe's plumbing section I quickly learned more than I really wanted to know, but as Mother Runners say, "Go big or go home!"  Our tank "hardware" was old, rusted, and I could replace it all for only a few more dollars than just buying a new flapper thingy.  I called my parent's for their DIY advice and I'm pretty sure that I could hear their chuckles from Iowa.  Challenge accepted.

Long story short, "Jules" from the company's YouTube video said that it would take around 20 minutes start to finish.  Days later our household's half bath is still out of commission.  There's a small leak from the filter valve that connects to the water source. What? Why is that last sentence part of my vocabulary?  Kyron's surprise was not successful but we have enjoyed learning together!

Just because they're cute...

Something that I do know a little more about are: running and fashion.  I am in desperate of new running shoes.  Currently I run in my favorite Newtons but they have many tracked marathon training miles on them.  I have a new found love for Under Armor workout swim mom wear; so I figured that I would have the same interest in their shoes.  They look great.  As for the feel?  Three short miles into my track night run and I'm ready to find my local running store and stick to "running shoes" not so much for fashion.

I'm sweating but the kids found the sprinklers.  Growing up in Iowa I have pranced around in sprinklers with grassy feet lots more than swimming in subdivision pools!