Lululemon SeaWheeze!

I will be running the Lululemon SeaWheeze half marathon this year, it is their first one ever, so I'm super excited to be part of it. I love Lulu's clothes and am obsessed with the brand all together.

As part of the registration fee you get a pair of their running shorts for "free". I just got mine today and they are so cute, the are white with colorful polka dots on them, I'll post a picture once I've tried them on, but they look super cute. I'm so excited!

We "Beat the Bridge" run. Running with Friends!

We finally did it. My very first official timed race. We had a team that we put together, most people from my work were running it and that's all we could talk about all day every day up until the race.

We had pre planned that my co-workers and I were going to run together and meet up before the race.

I got up super early, I figured traffic was going to be a nightmare to get into the parking lot. Once I got there I met up with my friends, it was so crowded, I'm so glad we were able to find each other and stick together the whole race. 8K went by so fast, we all stuck together through out the race and finished with a time of 43:33 and pace of 9:34, best time that any of us had done on any runs before. We were so proud of ourselves and got a finishers medal at the end.

One race down 2 more to go before the Disney half marathons.

My first organized run!

So for Mother's Day I saw that the city of Seattle was doing a free 5K run and I immediately was interested in running it with my 3.5 year old son Chase. I signed up super late the night before, but it allowed me to do it so I figured it wouldn't be a problem. We drove down to Seward Park (where the race took place) and picked up our race packet and had some time to play at the playground before the race stared.

They took some professional pictures and off we went. Chase just bolted from the starting line, 3.5 year olds do not know how to keep pace its either all or nothing and he gave it his all, that's for sure. After about 10 minutes he was tired, so we let all the runners pass us and he decided that walking was ok as long as people didn't pass him. Towards the end of the 5K he asked me if I can carry him for a couple of little minutes because his legs were tired, so I did, but as soon as he saw the finish line he wanted back down and ran like the wind accross it. We actually beat most of the walkers and my son genuinely thought that he had won the race! I was so proud of him, he was so excited, they had marshmallows and water at the end and it made his day.

We had so much fun running that I signed him up for a 2K race at the UW Bothell next Saturday. I'll let you know how it goes.

So I upped my short run this month to a 4 mile run, I've really only had two of them so far, but both have been kind of rough, definetly not easy, but I did them, so I'm proud of myself for that. Both days it was raining cats and dogs, I had bought this lululemon rain jacket just for running in the rain, but it was a big fail and I'm super dissapointed since I love lululemon so much. I was able to get my pace down to 10:17, my best so far has been 10:03 on my 6 mile run, we'll see how I do this week.

I'm now ready for my long run (7 miles) this week. I'm not sure if I'll go for Saturday or Sunday, but I'm trying to find a perfect route for it. Currently I'm running around Lake Washington on the Eastside of Seattle, I like that its flat, but I need find a way to extend it to make it 7 miles, not sure how I'm going to do it though. I use "MapMyRun" on my iPhone when I run and I love it, so I'll probably just map something out on that and hope that it won't be to hilly. That's the downside of running in Washington State, beautiful but super hilly.

Keep checking back for more updates.

Training progress

Although my ultimate goal is to run the Disney Coast to Coast hallenge next year, I have Registered for my first half marathon for this year. I will be running in the Seattle Rock'n'Roll Half marathon on June 23rd. My training is in full spring. I did my longest run to date yesterday and was super proud of myself, I ran 6 miles with a pace of 10.03, which is my personal best yet!!!! This was the first time I ran with music and I actually really liked it, it kept me distracted from wanting to look at my time and distance he whole time and I kept singing alOng to the songs which made the time just fly by. Next week I'm increasing my short runs to 4 miles an I have a 7 miler coming on Sunday!!! Super excited 8 more weeks to go!

So I came across the Disney Princess half marathon by accident by watching videos on YouTube and having people mention it on there and I was instantly intrigued. Now this was about a year ago or so, but every since I saw those I have been researching them and finding out ton of info about the races.
I should metion that I have never, ever run in my life, not counting PE in school of course, but something sparked my interest in it. I couldn't stop thinking about the races and how much fun would it be to run one.

I live in Seattle, so DisneyWorld is exactly the farthest  you can go in the Continental USA for me, but it has become my dream to run this race. the 2012 race was already booked and by the time I was for sure going to go I wouldn't have had enough time to train for it anyway. I decided to start go for the 2013 race. I'm super excited, but since it is really far for us to travel to I wanted to make sure that I can actually run 13.1 miles prior to booking this whole thing and then not being able to finish I figured I can run one of our local half marathons first and go from there. The most popular one of course in Seattle is the Rock'n'Roll half marathon, so I signed myself up and got a training schedule.

Look for posts and pictures of me training, I'm so excited about it.