Acorn 5K - 18 weeks

I'm 18 weeks along today, and Travis and I ran in the first annual Acorn 5K this morning, sponsored by the Oak Clinic, which helped raise money for Multiple Sclerosis. It was a beatiful day for a run and it was in a park that's only about 15 minutes away from our house (which we'd never been to before.) The run went really well except that the course ended up being 3.6 miles instead of 3.1. That doesn't sound like a big difference, but it's interesting when you have no idea how much further you have! Travis came in about 5 minutes ahead of me, and I did well keeping an even pace and not running too hard. The best part was that Travis and I both won our age divisions (20-29 age group)!!! The announcer giving the awards said we won the "fittest family" award. It's funny because before I was pregnant, I was running lots of 5K's and never winning my age group, always just missing it, and today I wasn't racing and still won! Next Sunday we're running the Great Race in Pittsburgh with my sisters, and I'm looking forward to it.