Celebrate the Small Things- July 18th

Thanks to our host Viklit and co-hosts Diana Wilder, L.G. Keltner, Cyborg Mom and CaffeMaggieato!

Oh my goodness!  I can't believe it's the third week of the month already!  Man does time fly...  Anyway, this week I'm celebrating...

My First 5K!!!  Last Saturday was my first ever 5K and boy was it an eye opener.  Lessons learned: Don't tear off the little tag at the bottom of your bib with your name and other info on it before the race, leave it on there till you finish so they can put your results on the board!  Don't start off at the front of the pack- you'll run faster and burn off more of that much needed finishing energy if you try to keep up.  And most importantly: get some practice outside and on hills if you want to be ready for real world terrain.

Even with all those mistakes, however, I think it was a decent showing for my first try:

90   28:20   49   FOX BEVERLY  

(That's my place out of 204 runners, my time in minutes and seconds, my bib number and my name).  Twenty eight minutes and twenty seconds seems pretty decent considering the size of that giant hill the course began/concluded with and although I didn't reach my goal of running the entire time I am hopeful that I will next time.  Which, coincidentally, is tomorrow!  That's right, I signed up for another one right away and this time I'm not gonna break to walk.  I'll tell you all about how it goes next week.
 
Running!  Over the past week I've made my way up from 3.6 to 4.1 miles at a clip.  As before it's still indoors on the flat track and as the last 5k taught me that is not going to cut it forever because the runs are going to get longer and harder (my first 10K is only a month away!) so I'm going to have find some places to run outside where I can face down some hills and build up my stamina.  But still, I've been making progress every week and I'm not doing anything but growing in my commitment to this thing, so that's definitely something to celebrate!

Well, that's it for me!  What are you lovely folks celebrating this week?

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10. The Write Game	11. Writers Mark	12. Entertaining Interests
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19. Bouquet of Books	20. melanie schulz	21. Shah Wharton's WordsinSync
22. Intentional Insights by S. Kelley Harrell	23. Simply Sarah	24. M. J. Fifield
25. Constantine	26. Nana Prah's Blog	27. Thoughts and Ideas from Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
28. The Beveled Edge	29. Fiction and Film	30. Mere Joyce
31. Life Happens	32. Rhonda @ Laugh-Quotes	33. Shells, Tales and Sails
34. OnBecomingAWriter	35. Viklit	36. Words World and Wings
37. J. A. Ward Writes	38. TF Walsh	39. Scribbling In The Storage Room
40. Just Get It Written	41. Fanny Barnes Thornton	42. Anything BUt Ordinary
43. Bames Live	44. The Block	45. Lisa Casian
46. The Beauty of Eclecticism	47. The Blog of Author J Lenni Dorner	48. Julie Jordan Scott: Let's CELEBRATE!
49. lLittle Big Girl	50. Tizzy @ Creative Therapy	51. Inside the Secret World of Allison Bruning
52. Here's the Story (WR)	53. Secondhand Shoes, A Novel	54. My Little Avalon
55. this and that. . .	56. Claudia H. Blanton	57. Rambles & Randomness
58. TheCyborgMom	59. India's solution to Garbage Management	60. Stephanie Faris, Author
61. Damyanti@ Amlokiblogs	62. ANANYA TALES	63. Achoo
64. QRSTUV	65. Day 3 #AtoZBloggingChallenge	66. Service from Heart: eat, travel, learn, laugh
67. Planet Kimberly - Writing, Paranormal, & Stuff	68. The Unwavering Part of Me	69. Kidbits
70. Kristin Smith--Swords and Stilettos	71. Author Jon Broderick	72. Brian Fuel Matters
73. Mountain Springs Publishing	74. Black Coffee and Cigarettes	75. Romance and Mystery, writing my life. . .
76. Be Positive in Life and Writing	77. Chicken Road Diaries	78. Happy Edinburgh
79. My Inner Geek	80. My Miracle Life