Mother's Day Virtual Run and All My Spoiling

For Mother's Day this year, I registered for a virtual Mother's Day run. It was pretty much run whatever distance you want and log it on their facebook page. I really just signed up for this race for the awesome shoe necklace! It did come with a cool medal, t-shirt, car sticker, key chain, temporary tattoos, and race bib. I also ordered myself some cool pink arm sleeves that say My Happy Pace. I'm thinking I will use them for my upcoming Twilight 10K and Half Marathon. I'm pretty excited about them as they have thumb holes also!! I love anything with thumb holes!!

Anyway, I was initially only going to go out and run an easy 5K since I ran my last long distance training run of 12 miles the day before. However, I looked at my training plan and it called for 5 miles. Even though it was Mother's Day and it was rainy out, I pushed through the 5 miles. My legs were not as sore as I would have thought they would have been actually. I wanted to run a few more miles today anyway since my hubby and kids were taking me out to breakfast at a local pancake place that also serves fish for breakfast. This is why my hubby likes this place so much. He always orders the blue gills and eggs. I knew I wanted to splurge a little today so I wanted to make sure I had a decent run with some decent miles.

It was a very pleasant and enjoyable run. It was a light rain so the temperature was nice and the rain was very cleansing. It was just what I needed to start a perfect Mother's Day.

I am totally spoiled rotten by my family. Shoes, socks, clothes, pens, and homemade gifts from my kids and my grandma, who's been gone for 8 years. I am so lucky to have such amazing family. It was an awesome day.

We spent the rest of the day relaxing and watching movies. Perfect Mother's Day!

As always my friends,

RUN ON!!

Laura

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