My 40th Birthday

sSo for my 40th birthday, I decided to run the San Antonio rock and roll Marathon. I did the whole 26.2 miles in 4:04.04, My fastest time ever! I thought my time was quite funny for the day since it reflected my new age, multiple times! haha

Endurathon 2011

I ran a 25K in 2 hours and 22 minutes! Which got me 3rd place in my age group! :) The start was freezing! it was 24 degrees! It was my motivation to run so fast, so I could get out of the cold.

Shorty"s Bar and Grill

Pam and I went to Bandera for a quilting class and on the way home we decided to go to lunch. Pam said she had seen this new restaurant and maybe we should try it out. So we went to Shorty's Bar and Grill. When we pulled up in the parking lot we saw Zig's car and were surprised that Zig and Tori were at the same restaurant. We went inside and a waitress came to seat us. All of them were dressed in Short shorts and boots and they had cowboy shirts tied up in knots showing their bellies. I was like want kind of place is this. Then we spotted Zig and Tori and when we said hi,We joined them. Zig started laughing and told us that Tori had been yelling at him all through lunch saying how inappropriate it was for him to take her there, and her mom would never go to a place like that. It was quite shocking to her when Pam and I walked in. We had no idea what kind of place it was. It was just new and looked like a good hamburger joint.  So we all had a good laugh over the whole thing. The food was really good, but more than likely will not be back!

Something Quite Gross!!!

Pam called me last night and said when she got home from work, her dogs smelled like something had died and was rotten. She looked to see if they had dragged in a dead rat or something, But she could not find anything. She gave her dogs a bath and gave them breath mints. The dogs then went back outside and she was like oh no there is something they killed in the backyard. So she grabbed a flashlight and went to see what was there. The dogs were standing over a dark blob, she shined the light on the blob and then was horrified to find out that they had dug up her cat that had died during the summer. They were licking it and rolling on it. She said it smelled so bad and then worse she had to somehow get it picked up and thrown in the trash! Poor Pam I was traumatized by her story I cant imagine how she handled that situation. I would have been traumatized for life!!!

Helotes Cornyval 5k

Mom , Eileen and I ran the Helotes Cornyval 5 k this past sunday. It was really nice doing a race that is only 3.2 miles! I ran it in 24:43 which came out to a 7:57 per mile pace. I thought for sure I had placed 2nd or 3rd in my age group. Nope I ended up 5th can you believe that!! There are way too many fast women in my age group. If I were in any other age group I would have placed 1, or 2nd! I was disappointed at first, but then realized that I was the 17th female in and that was not to bad. Mom placed first in her age group and Eileen placed 2nd in hers. Congratulations to both of them!!

Worst Mom Ever!!

Tori went to Italy for spring break. The teacher asked us to have the kids to the airport 2 hours early. I am not sure why San Antonio is not a busy flight and her first layover was in Atlanta. However we were at the airport exactly two hours early. It seemed that we were the last to arrive and some of Tori's friends were worried that she was going to miss the flight. They were looking all over for her. I was like we are TWO Hours early, how on Gods green earth was she going to miss the flight! She after waiting the full two hours made her flight with no problem. Her flight back was to arrive at 11:55pm on Sunday night. I figured I would get to the airport 15 minutes early so I could see her when she came to baggage claim. Well her flight came early it arrived at 11:20pm. I was just leaving the house for the airport. You guessed it I was the last parent to arrive. Every other parent met there kids at baggage claim and all her friends parents are asking Tori where is your Mom? I arrived at the airport at 11:36 and Tori was outside waiting already with her bag. She was so upset I was not there to meet her with the rest of the parents. I told her I arrived when I should have I could not help that her flight was way early.  I guess i should have checked the status of the flight on line. So I am the mom who was not there to meet there kid after being gone for 9 days. I tell you Worst Mom Ever!!! The moral to my story be very very ridiculously early to the airport!!

Endurathon 2010

Pam, Jeremy and I ran a race on Sunday! It was a 15.5 mile race. You could do a relay or run the whole distance by yourself. Pam wanted to run in the relay and could not find a partner, so I decided to do the relay with her. I ran the first half and then walked and ran the second half with her. We got Third place in the Womens Master Group! I can not believe that I will be old enough this year to be considered a masters runner! Yikes! Jeremy decided to do the 15.5 miler as an individaul. He had never run more than six miles. He did really well. He was the only teenage boy running the whole thing, so he got 1st place! That made him really happy! Congratulations to Pam , this was her first time to win an award at a race. She was So excited! We had a lot of fun!