…Buford Style. So today, Robert and I participated in our 1st ever 5K, and I must admit, it was FUN! Stacy and I have been working on losing weight, becoming healthy, getting fit, and we have been walking for months now. Although not regular walkers, it gave us time to exercise, motivate, and hold each other accountable. Two weeks ago, I proposed that we sign up for this 5K, so for the last two weeks we have been walking, working on our time and trying to get better. Now the truth is 2 weeks is not really enough time to train, but I have to admit, we worked our butts off and did the best we could with the time we had. Between school getting out, preparing for graduation events, soccer camp, getting ready for B12, and all other things that come with being a wife, mom, employee, living life, it's been crazy busy, so we squeezed in the time to get our walks in. In the end it all paid off, today we jogged/walked the 5K…one our goals was just to finish…or as the mom of lineman, we say "finish the drill", and well we did that and so much more! The accomplishment I felt cannot be explained in words.
Rob and I started off by fueling our bodies this morning at Waffle House…yeah, yeah, I know now, there is nothing worse that eating Waffle House other than not eating at all (where was Carson this morning to let me know this?). It was good, it gave me some one on one time with my son, I was not even able to finish my meal, I was too nervous to eat, and Robert thought I was silly and he was probably right, but none the less, it was what it was. Brandon and Robert…our competitive duo, helped "motivate" us during our training and decided to join us today. We knew when they said they would join us that as soon as the signal was given they would be in "competition mode", with others and each other, and leave us behind….and well they did! Stacy and I were not being competitive with each other or anyone else; we had our personal goals and did what we needed to do to meet those. After Brandon and Robert finished they came back to "motivate" us and keep us on track! It was nice to see all the kids out there, Liz and Carson did their thing…they are in Cross Country, so they are expected to have "good finish times", Brandon and Robert didn't do too bad considering they were the only "football" players doing this, even if it was for their "Moms" and didn't really train for it. I just want to give them a special thank you for being by my side and keeping me on track & motivated! Stacy, thanks for hanging in there and "staying the course", Brandon & Rob, thanks for the "motivation" also know as a "literal push" you gave us during training, Carson and Liz, just a simple thanks for cheering us on, as well as your parents for being sideline cheerleaders from being to end!
Today has been a great day; I hope to be blogging about many more events like this one, just not anytime soon ;-) Hope you enjoy the pics…thanks to Mrs. Lori for the ones you took as well:
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