Race for Adoption

Each year, a local church hosts a Race for Adoption.  Proceeds go to a local family who is adopting.  Obviously, adoption is near and dear to my heart.  Without it, I wouldn't have my wonderful daughter.  So, when the advertising signs came out this year, I signed up for my first 5K. 

I am not a runner.  I prefer to stay in shape with spin and yoga.  However, I wanted to do this race and I figured it would help me lose my baby weight.  Using the Couch to 5K program I trained for several weeks before the race.  It's a nine week training program but I didn't exactly plan ahead and give myself that much time.  I reasoned that since I'm not a total couch potato, I could just skip the first several weeks of training.  This still left me one week short, so as of race day, I had never actually run the whole 3.1 miles.  Plus, I wasn't exactly recovered from my case of bronchitis, thank you Jackson for sharing that with me.  But, despite all of that, I was determined to run.  Here we go!

I ran without a phone or a watch, not too smart.  I had planned to do a test run the week before to learn the route, but that never happened.  So I was basically running blind.  Along the way there were cheering stations and when one group shouted "only one mile left" I thought I would die.  Surely I had to be closer to the finish line than that!  Then I came around a corner and could see the end.  There was my family and my sweet baby girl holding a sign and cheering.  I FINISHED!!!      

I was so touched that Ryan had taken the time to help Tessa make a sign for me that I cried.  She is such a great cheerleader!  Yea for Adoption is absolutely right.  I love you too Tessa!