Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to our moms and all of the other moms out there!

We celebrated Mother's Day in Melbourne with an 8k run - The Mother's Day Classic, which supports the National Breast Cancer Foundation.  Our first international race!!

Our first international race! 

We haven't been running and training as much as we should, but had a great time, anyway.  There was a 4k option or an 8k option - the 8k option required two laps...and, part of the lap was straight up a hill. Just in case you were wondering, there aren't any hills on Beach Road, where Jeff and I always run, which made the hill a bit HARD!  On Saturday, I took a tumble during a run, so I was happy to have woken up a bit sore, but still able to run - bit of a bingle/road rash on my elbow.

The track that we ran, "The Tan" is only about 12 feet
wide, and they were expecting over 20,000 people
to participate.

The morning started out quite cool, at 10 degrees, so we bundled up with our gloves and hit the road, ready to find our friend, Alicia who was completing her first ever race, and longest run!

Pre-race photo.

Post-race, we're a little damp.  Great job, Alicia!

We finished in okay time, and had a lot of fun - it feels good to get to running, again.  Our friend, Samantha wrote an inspiring blogpost on running the other day...turns out that a lot of what she said is true!

Once we got home, we took a gander at the radar in the area, and found that the walkers, which started after we were done, were in for a ton of rain...not the best of weather...

Hope everyone had their ponchos...

Once we got warm and cleaned up, we headed out to the local cafe for a hearty brekkie and big cup of coffee.  What a great way to spend a Sunday morning!

Fresh and cleaned up...and hungry!

Now, time to look for a half-marathon to run...anyone interested in joining us?