Bloomsday 2013 here I come

This last weekend was the Bloomsday Run in Spokane,WA, it is almost a 7.5 mile run.  I have never been to it, or even really thought about it until last year.  Last year my dad was trying to get healthy and was walking quite a bit.  He mentioned that he was thinking about doing it in passing and my sister and I decided we really wanted to do it with him.  At the time I was running, not very far, and I wasn't pushing myself at the time, but I was also pregnant.  It was early in my pregnancy and I thought it would be no problem.  Well, February came around and I was much bigger and then my Dad got sick and quit walking.  And then April came and my Dad didn't start walking again after being sick, and I was not walking, much less running at all, and was 7 months pregnant and thinking "what in the world was I thinking of when I agreed to walk with my dad?"  Needless to say, both my Dad and I decided we were not going to walk in the Bloomsday run and my sister agreed to do it another year.  I brought it up at the beginning of March, right after I started running again (seriously this time), but my Dad has been having a lot of health problems this past winter and couldn't so I didn't sign up for it. 

Yesterday a friend posted his time running the Bloomsday Run on Facebook and I decided I was going to do it next year.  So . . . I that is my newest goal, to run the Bloomsday Run next May. 

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I keep forgetting that my first officially timed 5K run is this weekend, The Have a Heart Run.  I am nervous about it, but mostly because I have never run a race before (I walked the Tulip Run with my sister) and I don't like crowds of strangers.  At least with the Tulip Run I had my sister the whole way, but this I will be completely by myself.  My sister is going to come up and watch Maddox for me and (hopefully) take a picture of me at the finish line.  Other than the crowd and doing something out of my comfort zone (a race) I'm not worried about it at all.  It's a 5K, just 3.1 miles, I do that daily.  I'm not aiming for a PR because I've sorta gone as fast as I think I can already. 

I honestly don't know if I could get that under 30 min at this point.  I know I will eventually be able to, but not right now.  Kinda makes me wish I had gone slower so that I could save my PR for an official race.  :-)  Actually, if I have my Saturday's time (9.21 min/mile) I could have a new PR, but I'm honestly not trying to do anything fancy.  Mostly I'm just doing this to see if I like racing, or if I should just keep it to my daily runs.  (Although, I think I'm going to do Bloomsday next year no matter what.)

No run today because I went to Damian's baseball game.  No run tomorrow (maybe) because I'm going to Zumba.  So we'll see.  Besides, I have another pretty nasty blister in the same spot as my last one,  (I really am getting tired of them) so I think a couple days of rest will be good.  Although, I'm already kinda longing for run, so we'll see.