Last weekend was pretty eventful! On Thursday night I went to a meet and greet/book reading with the authors of Run Like a Mother and Train Like a Mother. They also have a pretty great website/podcast/facebook page.
It was held in a Crossfit gym, so Eleanor had a lot of room to roam around.
There was a great surprise waiting at home– Sam’s parents and sister had come for a surprise visit! We had no idea they were coming! It was great seeing them. It had been a while!
Now, I am no food photographer, so this picture probably just looks gross. But seriously, if you want to have amaaaazing pizza, go to The Flying Goat in Spokane. The Dalton (below) is our favourite. It has honey apple BBQ, pulled pork, carmelized onion, and coleslaw! It’s amazing.
Next month I’m doing a full marathon, and since my training schedule called for a long run on Saturday anyway, I decided to sign up for the Happy Girls Run Spokane half marathon. It was a spur of the moment decision, but I figured I had might as well get to do my long run on a cool course with water stations ;)
It was a difficult course! Half of it was technical trail (dirt or very rocky) and it had some brutal hills. But it was very pretty, and a really fun run!
Let’s keep in mind that the next two pictures were after I just ran ;) This is Dimity and Sarah, the book authors I mentioned.
Fellow mother runners, these books are fantastic! On Amazon they’re less than $5 used! I had felt kind of alone in my “demographic” of being a long distance runner and new mom, but these ladies GET IT! They understand why it’s important for moms to run, and offer wonderful insight and inspiration to help get me out there. They’re also hilarious. Check them out!
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That is so cool you got to meet Dimity and Sarah! And it is so great that Sam’s parents were able to make it up for a visit!
I came for the bib pattern and saw that you live in spokane. I just moved here a few weeks ago, cool coincidence! I love the blog. How would someone get into running here? Where to run and when are there races?
That’s awesome! Welcome!
A great place to run is the Centennial Trail that goes along the Spokane River. There are bathrooms and water fountains at trail heads, which is fantastic. There is also a running club called Flying Irish Running Club that does group runs about once a week and gets together for parties. I haven’t gone, but I follow them on facebook and it seems fun ;) As for races, it depends on what distance you want to do. But there are lots of online search engines such as runningintheusa.com and halfmarathons.net that you can look them up based on location, distance, date… As for me, I’m planning on doing either the Negative Split Half Marathon in April or Windermere half marathon in June! I’m due to have a baby at the end of July, so we’ll see how that plan goes ;) Email me if you have any other questions or want to chat!