Richmond Half Marathon

The Smith household has been on a running kick! Right before I quit my job, I signed up for the Richmond half marathon to keep me motivated and working out. Then a month later, we found out we were having another baby! Training got more difficult since Glenn and I had to take turns, but we made it and we both met our time goals!

I just just barely squeaked in under 2 hours, but I did it!

My friend Trish and I even spotted John from Young House Love!

And took an awkward selfie! 

It was only 28 deg at the start but warmed up to about 40 deg. I don't think my body warmed up til mile 4 but luckily I only spent 20 minutes before the start. Glenn spent 4 hrs waiting to start the NYC marathon!

Happy to take a little break from training but I think I'll do another in the spring or summer!

NYC

Glenn made it to NY twice this week!

That's Glenn flying! Glenn did a Hudson River flight this week too and took some awesome pictures of the city from his plane!

We went over Halloween weekend for the TCS NYC Marathon which Glenn ran in an amazing 3 hours and 51 minutes! It was his first marathon and Maya and I were there to cheer him on at mile 17. We just missed them at mile 24! We left Lincoln in NJ with a friend's family which was much easier for this mama. It was 50 degrees and very windy so he was much happier in NJ than bundled up in a stroller. And I didn't have to navigate the subway with a stroller!

 Glenn and Paul were running buddies and ran the entire race together!

Grand Central Terminal and the Empire State Building!

Maya and I navigating the subway on race day.

 Waiting for daddy at Mile 17!

 He did it! First marathon in the books!

 Maya made it to Time Square, too!

On the train back to NJ! Yes, we were those crazy people with a Rock-n-Play on the subway! Great job, Glenn!

Daddy's 2nd Half

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Glenn ran his second half marathon over St. Patricks day week and he did awesome! A personal record for him of 1:37. 

Lincoln and I were there to cheer him on in the cold weather and early start time. 

So proud of Glenn and all this running has gotten me motivated too. We go on family runs whenever we can. Lincoln seems to enjoy the ride although he falls asleep almost every time. We all ran a 10k last weekend!

I'm excited to cheer Glenn on in NYC in November when he runs his first marathon!

Wordless Wednesday: Prize

Race for the Cure

 On Saturday morning, a few of the spouses from our squadron headed to Tokyo to run in the Race for the Cure. It was a beautiful day and it actually made the running really fun! We ran around the Imperial Palace following the moat for the most part. The air was cool and the leaves were beautiful. If running was always like that, I would probably do it more often. Three of us ran the 5K race and two people in our group ran the 10K race.

 I finished the 5K with a time of 32 minutes. I was pretty happy with that for it being my first race! In all there were about 1500 runners between the two races so it was a good turn out especially in a country that doesn't have as much awareness for Breast Cancer like the US.

 There were some other Atsugi-basers there too!

  What a great day though! It actually makes me want to go running again. That's new!