Parent/Teacher conferences were held at Ashlyn's school this week. Ashlyn's teacher had so many wonderful things to say about her. She said that she thoroughly enjoys having Ashlyn in her class. She said that she is very social and has lots of friends in her class. She also said that Ashlyn is very bright and ahead of her peers in most areas. We discussed ways we could challenge her both at home and in the classroom. I was very proud when she said she knows her shapes better than anyone other child in her class. She also said she is the best at drawing in the class. I was one proud mommy! I know what an amazing little girl Ashlyn is, but it always is so nice to hear it from others like your child's teacher. Its one of the best compliments a parent can get. As a very special treat, we got Ashlyn a happy meal that night for dinner mainly because they are giving out My Little Pony toys. She was one happy little girl!
On Saturday, we were up bright and early to head downtown for the annual St. Patrick's Day race. I have ran this 5k several times and it is always one of my favorites. They changed some things about it this year, and I was less than impressed with the entire event. This year a record number of people signed up. I get very frustrated when races accept an unlimited number of participants when they clearly aren't prepared to deal with that many runners. They ran out of shirts, had no water on the course, ran out of water cups after the race, it was too crowded, etc. I am very disappointed that one of my favorite races was ran so poorly this year. I really hope they work out the kinks for next year.
I have been training pretty hard for this race. The weather was absolutely beautiful. It actually might have been a little too warm. It is a fun course and I enjoy watching the people as I run. I did not finish as quickly as I know I could have, but I now know what I need to focus on more for this upcoming race season. I did end up setting a new PR, so I was happy. I ended up coming in 31st out of 1,821 females. So even though I was disappointed in my time, I still did really, really well overall. At the Turkey Trot there were 50 women ahead of me, this time there were only 30. I love that I am closing in on my competition. It feels so rewarding to have all my hard work really pay off. There are so many nights I don't feel like heading to the gym to run after a long day. I always remind myself that my competition probably ran that day. It's motivating. I have a bunch of races lined up for this spring and summer. I am most excited to run the Bolder Boulder in May. I am going to continue to train hard and pray I stay injury free!
This race also had a kids run. Ashlyn has enjoyed kids runs in the past and when I asked her if she wanted to do it, she enthusiastically said, "Yes!" This kid run was kind of neat because they also got a t-shirt. It was supposed to only be a 1/2 mile run, but I am positive it was much longer than that. It too was very disorganized and they had to have two separate heats. Ashlyn had a great time while she was running though. She ran the entire time and didn't walk once. Ashlyn is proving to be pretty athletic.
Despite some major kinks and problems with the event, we still had a great time. I am already looking forward to next year. I'm entering Dawson to do the kids run.
Here are some pictures that Joey managed to take. He had a hard time taking pictures this race because it was so crowded and he had Ashlyn and Dawson to keep an eye on. He still did a good job.
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| My little man watching mommy |
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| I'm kind of hard to see, but I'm in the purple. |
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| Here I am at the end |
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| Ashlyn and I after my race |
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| Taking off in the kids run |
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| It was very crowded and kind of hard to navigate through all the participants. |
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| Hi Daddy! |
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| Waving to the camera. |
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| In between my race and Ashlyn's race, my mom took Ashlyn to get her face painted. She picked a cat face of course. She has never had her face fully painted like that and she LOVED it. She was very sad to have to wash it off that night in the bath. |
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