Running Talley 2011

As of yesterday I've beat my running mileage from pregnancy #2. I have run 178.82 miles this pregnancy and I have just over 8 weeks to go. This is a mile over my mileage from pregnancy #2.

My yearly mileage is up to 130.89.

So far I feel allright. I'm very slow running and I don't know how long I can keep it up. I may have to drop my runs to 2 miles and under but I'll keep going as long as I can.

Children's Books List

It gets asked often, what are your kids favorite books. I'm going to start trying to keep track of my (and theirs) favorites. I'm sure I'll leave some out, but slowly I'll get them all listed.

Llama Llama series by Anna Dewdney
Bear Series ie Bear Wants More: by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman
The Little Mouse The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear by Audrey Wood
Bark George by Jules Feiffer
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More by Karen Beaumont and David Catrow
Knuffle Bunny Series by Mo Willems
Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She was Extinct as well as the Pig/Elephant books by Mo Willems
Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen
Olivia series by Ian Falconer
The Berenstein Bears Books
Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor
All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon
Diary of a Worm/Spider/Fly by Doreen Cronin
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
No, David by David Shannon
Little Critter Books by Mercer Mayer
Clifford the Big Red Dog Books
Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French
Pinkalicious by Victoria and Elizabeth Kann
The Baby BeeBee Bird by Diane Redfield Massie
Ladybug Girl Books by Jacky Davis
Sandra Boynton Books
The Tushy Book by Fran Manushkin
Tumble Bumble by Felicia Bond
Ten Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gerth

Another 5k, 30.5 weeks pregnant

I ran another 5k this last weekend. It was one I signed up for back in early December when I had *just* found out I was pregnant. My friends were signing up for the half marathon and because I didn't want them to find out just yet that I was pregnant I said I signed up for the race too. Note that I said race, not half marathon. In talking about this race, a coworker of mine decided this would be her first half marathon she'd run. I also wasn't announcing my pregnancy at work so I just forewarned her about training schedules and what not to make sure she could fully commit to running it. Fast forward 5 months later and it was race day.

The weather predicted pouring rains, in June?! But luckily it turned out to be a cloudy, muggy morning but dry! (Nice compared to the torrential downpour the day before.) My coworker was ready for her half and my 2 other friends decided to run the 5k with me even with my warningly low pace.
The race was a little disorganized and I wished they had water at the start because I was thirsty! The half started first at 8am and I was able to see my coworker off. Thirty minutes later was the 5k. I guess because of the high number of 5kers they did staggered starts. We were in the third "wave". The race was nice, fairly flat, views of the bay not so bad. The race was longer than 5k according to my GPS. 0.14 miles longer in fact. But I finished fine, ran the whole way with no pain.
The end was another pain in the ass. No signs on any of the tents and lines were long to pick up the swag. So after waiting in the wrong line for 15 minutes we got into another line for the stuff we wanted. Seriously, how hard is it to write a sign?! Once everything was picked up, we watched more of the race, especially to see my coworker cross the finish line (with great time) and called it a day.
Overall, great time! Hopefully over time the race organizers will become more organized but I think this is only the 2nd year. Oh and results are totally confusing. And I believe inaccurate. There were two times listed. Not chip time and gun time, but Net time and Official time. Their description of what those meant.

Net Time is the time a person actually crossed the start line minus their finish.

Official Time is based on USATF rules. Official time is the gun time minus the finish time. This would be your official time for qualifying for a USATF race.

I feel net time is more accurate to what your race time is. I mean if it took you 2 minutes from gun time to pass the start it doesn't make sense to add that to your race time.