(aka the day I signed up for 7 races)

Wait, What? Yep, you read that right 7 races. The races added to my growing list for 2017 are:

- Lift Bridge 10K
- Esprit de She 5K
- Women Rock 2.5K
- Women Rock 5K
- Women Rock 10K
- Chocolate Frolic 10K
- Rock N' Roll San Antonio Half Marathon

And the best part is I got discounts on all of them except for the Life Bridge Race. Score me!

My coworkers think I’m crazy. HAHAHA, yes I am!

Now I need to go for a run to celebrate!

Another race is in the bag for 2017. That was #15. I’m on course to hit my 40 by 40 goal.

The race was nothing to write home about. I only had 2 miles in me and mile 3 I just tanked. It didn’t help that the start of mile 3 is a long hill and as I’ve complained about numerous times I hate running uphill. I need to seriously train on hills. I always say I’m going to do a hill work out but then go on my usually flat route. Ha! Mile 1 was great if you consider my times lately. It was 12:18. I thought maybe I could do as good as I did at Donut Dash three weeks ago. Mile 2 made sure that didn’t happen when I finished it just under 13 minutes. Mile 3 was a death march. LOL! I barely got it under 15 minutes. What the heck is wrong with me? 

The weather was a factor. It was very warm (75 degrees at start) and a bit humid. I need to get used to this heat again. I thought last week’s 20KM in 90 degrees would have helped me but nope.

My time was 41:00 which is embarrassingly slow. I ran a long run on Sunday that was almost faster than that. Granted my long run only lasted about 4 miles before I called it quits and walked 2 miles home. I need to get out of this training funk! 

We packed up or bags and headed to the market for our fresh delicious waffles. These are the best waffles ever!  I was very happy to eat mine and part of Eric’s. 

After that we drove to the Chocolate factory to stock up on Kilos of chocolate. We made a quick stop at the house to repack our bags to fit our chocolates before heading to the airport.

We hugged Elizabeth good bye and made our way to our plane. The flight to Iceland was 3 hours and the flight from Iceland home was 6 hours. We had an hour layover in Iceland and boy is that airport a disaster when they have the gates so close to each other and all the flights were leaving within 30 minutes of each other. Nobody knew what line went where. We eventually go on the plane and we were on our way home. I was so glad to get back to the US. I had a great trip but I liked being home. We met DJ and Bonnie at our house and we went to Chipotle for dinner before they all left us and we were home along. Swirl would not leave my side all night. I think he truly missed us. 

The Battle of the Bulge

The last full day in Europe we went to Bastogne to see the site of the Battle of the Bulge. There is a great museum there with interesting displays and very informative movies. I really liked the place. 

After that we drove to Henri Chapelle US Cemetery to see where the US soldiers were buried. It was a very nice cemetery. 

It was a long drive back to the house with a stop at Pizza Hut on the way. Again, we finished the night eating chocolates around the table.