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Ran the Pacific Trail (why pacific trail when we're in the middle of the desert in AZ?!) , Iron Girl Mother/Daughter 5k with my mama. I expected to walk 15-minute miles with her, as she is really more of a power-walker than runner, and hadn't been training too hard for this race.It was perfect weather. We ran a great course along Tempe Town Lake, over a couple of large bridges (the distance of both Mama managed to run, woo hoo!), up and down, past Army men and women doing PT, past horses, past highways. Very interesting course.

Mama got into the racing part of it - once she noticed that we were going back and forth with another mother/daughter duo, she wanted to stay ahead of them, and that motivated her to run even more! (BTW, we did finish in front of of them.) It was a lot of fun for us - she kept talking about how when she was my age and I was a kid, we both hated exercising, and now we were out together! We finished 21 out of 26 - and my first-time mother came within a minute and thirty seconds of my first-time 5k race pace! And I had trained for it for months! So, way to go mom! We finished in a time of 42:16, 13:36/mile - that's awesome for not running even half of it.

Overall, we had a blast - and I think I may have convinced her to do the Jim Click Run'n'Roll with me next year!