Another busy weekend for Sean and I.
Friday night we played two softball games with our team "Brew Crew" and won both games. It was pretty exciting since we haven't won a game yet and although we had many errors in the field our batting helped us out and we were able to put two victories in front of us.
Saturday morning we woke up early to run a 6K in New Quarter Park. Sean agreed to run as well, and although he gave me a hard time in the morning, he was glad he did it when he was finished. This was a race held by The Colonial Road Runners and was a grand prix event. Being a grand prix race I was eligible for points and luckily I walked away with 5, which is the maximum you can get at any given race. The website isn't updated yet, but you can see, if you follow the link, that I am currently in the lead for the 20-29 age group. After this race I've increased my lead and am now at 29 points and second place is at 20 points. At the end of the racing season (only 3 more races) whoever has the most amount of points wins prizes. As everyone knows, I love prizes, big or small, therefore, even though my knee is killing me, I will continue to ice it and at least race these last 5K's of the season.
After the 6K Sean and I drove up to Maryland and stayed with our friend Sally. She has been nice enough to let us stay with her throughout our wedding planning so that we don't have to get a hotel. Not a lot of wedding planning happening this weekend, just engagement photos on Sunday morning.
Sunday morning we drove to Camden Yards to get our engagement pictures taken. Our first date was at Camden Yards, and we wanted something fun and special to us, so this was a perfect choice. Our wedding photographer includes an engagement session in his package, so it was a good opportunity to work one-on-one with him prior to the wedding. He promises to have the pictures to us by the end of the week, and I will post our favorites on here to share.
We have a busy next few weeks, with a wedding in Philadelphia this coming weekend, and a fun little get-away to Tybee Island, GA the following weekend.
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2 comments:
What's up w/your knee?
I'm trying to take up running, since it's the exercise of the military and their spouses. Seems like everyone does it and those who don't, are taking it up. But, I have a torn ACL in my right knee and my quads are weak. So, the tendons, ligaments and muscles surrounding the knee, are working too hard. So, I ran 1.5 miles yesterday and walked back home. My knee killed me all afternoon/night. But, I iced it, took Motrin and it's better today. I'm going to try to strengthen that quad w/wall sits and squats. Hopefully, it'll get stronger and the lateral knee pain I feel will slowly start to subside. All this means is that I have to get into running very very slow - so as not to really kill my knee!
I can't wait to see your engagement pictures!
Natalie, you should definitely stick with running, but if you continue to have knee pain definitely go and talk with a Dr. that specializes in sports medicine. Strength training always helps too, so hopefully that'll help your pain.
I love running, especially when I can race, I can't get enough of it.
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