Hello Everyone, hope your weekend was absolutely fantastic!

Mine was delightful, very eventful for sure.

Friday night, my honey and I went to dinner with my hilarious friend Ondrea and her awesome husband. Good times!

Saturday morning, bright and early was race day! WOOP! I’ve been waiting for the Race for the Pennant since waaaay last year when I first heard about it. Even before I ever did the 5K in April. 

6:00 AM, we woke up, in a daze really. I am NOT a morning person.

Not.at.all. 

So after having some tea, H2O and half a bagel with Justin’s Nut Butter {it was delicious! Peanut Butter with Honey, SO amazing! Try it!}, I was finally now awake.

Hubs and I met up with my younger brother and sister.

These are the BEFORE shots.

There was about 3,000 people there, so trying to find our friends Greg and Melissa was pretty much impossible.

Hubs, Sis, Bro and I started the race together at 7:45 am.

BOOM! We’re off…

My sister and I stayed together, but the guys booked it!

Sis and I had a good pace. We ran, we walked, then ran some more. I could definitely feel that I did not hydrate enough for this. The sun was already hot and I was drenched in sweat {yucky I know}.

I got this awesome {and by awesome, I mean horrible} pain in my side upper side, it felt like a cramp you’d get as a kid when you’d run because you’re didn’t want to be “IT” in whatever game you were playing. Yeah that kind of pain. But I pushed through it, that wasn’t going to stop me.

Little did we realize, there was two huge steep HILLS in this race, after hill #2, it pretty much felt like we were doing lungs up the thing. I could feel my quads burning, but as soon we hit the top of that hill, I knew the hardest part was done… 

Sis and I checked our time, we were going great. Kept on pushing on, and before we knew it, we saw the FINISH Line sign, WOOP!!

The finish line ended inside Minute Maid Ballpark…

This is a picture of when I was at a game, by see the right lower side? That’s were we came in at.

Going into the Ballpark, there was two huge-o steep hills going DOWN. So you’re running and you’re thinking “Oh Jesus Help Me!! Don’t let me fall!!“ 

We made it!

And my amazing Husband was standing there waiting for us with two bottle waters! Such a good man!

I grabbed my water and was still moving, the running came to a job, then to a walk and I kept walking. Kind of forgot to hug my husband, but was on a mission to find a seat! My legs were tingling, shaking and felt like they were about to give out. 

See what lack of hydration can do to you?

After the race, we found our friends Greg and Melissa, said Hi, grabbed a few more waters and headed out. The line for the food was out of control. I was reading to get home and get into a BATH.

You can tell with the after pictures, that it was HOT…

Got this Cherry face look going on…

 Hubs was soaked, we all were, but his grey shirt shows it more

On the way home, I needed some GREEN TEA…

One thing I was bummed about is that I didn’t have the D-Tag, when we signed up, I didn’t realize you had to click RUN and it was automatically set for WALK. Bummer… but I stayed with my sister, and she had the D-TAG, so her official time for the race is pretty much my official time too, here’s what we had:

Not too shabby. Of course I want to improve and be better each time. 

We’re already looking for the NEXT race.

I honestly wish we had cooler weather here, because the thought of running in the heat of June, July & August has me a little freaked. But yet, I want to find another SOON!

So to let you know what I learned this race:

• DRINK MORE WATER BEFORE.

So tell me, what did you do this weekend?  and do you ever feel during a run, workout, etc, that you need hydration STAT! What do you drink?

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