Tiny Dancers, round 2.

Cora got to do her second dance class the past 2 months. She missed a few classes due to sickness, but it was hilarious nonetheless. I love the class, and it is worth the small fee considering how much she actually does. And she LOVES it!

Her first day, she stood in the back and cried until her friend Annie came over and hugged her. It was SO cute!

 Yeah she was paying attention.

 A few weeks before the recital, she would NOT stop crying during class. She clearly was just recovering from some sickness. But look at how cute she was!

 The recital was SO funny. Here are some of the still shots that I got.

 This one looks like she's doing the chicken dance. I laughed so hard when I saw it.

Unfortunately the videos are bigger than what I can put on the blog. But she loved dance class, and I think she'll do another one in the fall!

End of the Trail Half Marathon

Completed half marathon 3 today!

In order to explain how it was training, you need to realize what has happened since I started attempting to train in October. We had: sinus infections, colds, traveling, teething, pink eye, chronic ear infections, sleep training, potty training, enterovirus, many many nights of waking up too many times with sick kids, fevers, a flu scare, etc. The kids and I have been sick no less than 15 times. Soooo, needless to say it's been rough!

I did not prepare enough for this. Not at all. But there was nothing I could do about it. So when race day came around I just wanted to finish in less time than my running playlist, and to finish without injury. A secondary goal was to finish in under 3 hours.

The course was pretty flat. The best part was when we ran past a giant apple orchard which is blossoming, because it smelled amazing. The worst part was when we immediately ran past a dairy farm afterwards and it smelled HORRIBLE. I was about to throw up.

Since I just used my Apple watch, I had to pick my playlist carefully. I picked "From Now On" and "This is Me" from Greatest Showman to be the last songs to get me through the finish line. It was pretty inspiring.

 I had the cutest cheering section! 

 I was so happy that Amanda came too, that was so nice of her! Here they are playing Ring around the Rosie with Cora waiting for me to show up.

 

 This melted my heart! 

 Yeesh.

 

Brandon came up to me and the first thing he said is "Man, you look rough!" Yup!

 Meg and Ash brought me flowers, and Cora pulled one out to give to me. 

  

 

 "Oh Mom, can I have an orange?? Oh thank you Mom!"

 

 I've been trying to French braid my hair before long runs since it doesn't fall out as fast as a ponytail, but clearly I need to work on it. 

  

 

  

    

   

 Glad Meg and Ash (and baby Charlotte!) came down early this morning for this! 

My official time is 3:02:49. So close to my secondary goal! But I didn't injure myself and I got to skip 3 songs on my playlist. So there's that!

We have another half marathon in mid May, in Yosemite. So I need to strength train and do some speed workouts. Hopefully since we have an ENT appointment for Cora's ears, and since it's not the dead of winter and flu season, we will not have so much sickness. But I was grateful to everyone who came out and supported me! It feels good to be a three time half marathoner!