half marathon what?!?!

once upon a time, i had a baby and was in horrible shape after and decided that running would be a good way to shed the fat. i don't really love running, but i love sweating and knowing that i did something towards the cause of losing the flab, so running it was! soon after i started, lace mentioned a half marathon in canmore and thought we should do it together. my initial response was HECK no, but i eventually came around and convinced kris to join me, and we all signed up for the mother's day race!

we took the opportunity to have a little girls weekend too and loaded up on carbs together and got our 5 hour energy drinks and stressed about what to eat for breakfast and how many port-a-potty's they'd have on the trail :)

we pretended to stretch before we took off, but i think we (me and kris at least) were too nervous to care about that. we just wanted to survive it!

we had heard that it was a hard race - kinda hilly - but we were set and ready to go!

lace killed it like we knew she would :)

me and kris, on the other hand, finished, and that was all that mattered to us! it was stinkin HARD, and there was A LOT of hilliness, but we did the 1st 6 miles with no walking and finished strong!

love this picture of kris being so excited to see little maklyn after :) so fun to see someone cheering you on when you cross that finish line - thanks for coming mama! and the stretching before may have slipped our minds but not after! stretching never felt so good!

it was sooooo beautiful up in canmore that day, and the scenery didn't disappoint. it was hard, but i felt pretty good after considering i was 15 weeks pregnant :)

i've always wanted to run a race and never dreamed i could finish a half marathon. it was so fun to do it with these amazing girls, and we had such a great weekend, and i can't wait for our next race :)