Shamrock Shuffle 5K

Saturday morning, 4/14/2012! 

Shamrock Shuffle at St. Patrick's Catholic School in Cedar Falls, IA... 

My first 5K & the girls' first Kids Fun Run. :D  Here they are with Kelly Lange's little girls...

And Kreighton Peck!

Like our  matching sequin headbands? ;) Gift from the Easter Bunny and I have on Lydia's. Let me tell you, getting out of the house w/her headband (for me to wear) was a feat in itself! Lauren & I had fun hiding it from her... all so we could match of course!

Was super cute, this lady was leading all the kids in what I think was a 'Zumba' dance...
Just love the girls' sweatshirts... it was Lauren's idea to put Beyer on the back :)

Here is after the race... shiny faces & all.  I thought I'd look worse than that since I literally thought I was going to get sick the last 1/2 mile ;) I'm going to try a different tactic next time I try one of these :D

Love this picture... looks like a great start to a set of 'comparison pictures' in the years to come! (B/c I hope there are many more of these to come!)

After the 5K was over 4-6 yr-olds went first, a race around the block!  Lindsay took it pretty seriously :)  Here she is stretching ;)

Lauren almost 7 & Lindsay 5-8months

like Lauren's stretch?

Waiting on instructions...

Group led stretching... very cute, and happy they emphasized it!

On your marks...

Get set...

GO!

Like Lauren taking a short-cut? ;)

One block around...

into the homestretch...

and Lindsay lost her headband.

off again!

finishing!

happy w/their medals :)

Thanks to Maggie's Mom, Grandma Sharon for watching them while we ran!

And as far as my 1st 5K experience?  It wasn't that great :) thought to myself... "I paid to do this?!?"  Lots of hills and never found a groove.  So... Maggie insists that I not base my '5K-experience' on this sole run alone :) I suppose we'll give another one a try at some point... and it will have to include a kids run, b/c after Lindsay was finished she said, "I want to do that again!" :D