In which there are Babies, Comic Conventions, and Sprinting

Second post, and I'm already a little late. But trust me, I have good reasons.

Week two was easier on the running front than the first week. The weather was better! Flowers are coming up, trees are blooming, and there was no running in the rain!

See? Sunshine and Pretties!

All of these things are good. I also got to do my Saturday Run (the long run) on the South Side, with the company of my boyfriend. We ran to the lakeside and it was gorgeous. Then in some crazy moment of "this is feeling really good" (and showing off), I picked up the pace a lot on the way back, even sprinting the last minute. I didn't know I was capable of running that fast, but it was kind of fun!

 I confess that I did miss one day of running last Wednesday because work changed my schedule. I would have had to get up at 5 am to run, and I just couldn't bring myself to do that. I don't know how the rest of you feel about mornings, but I find them to be horrible awful times to be awake, so it was bad enough that I had to get up at 6 for work. I ran a little extra long and a little extra fast on other days to make up for it. Not sure if that bargaining system is actually valid, but hey, I made it to week three, and that's what counts.

I had plans for this post, but some pretty important and exciting things happened this weekend! Both of my friends who were pregnant had their tiny babies, and that was great! One baby lives in Idaho, so I won't get to see her for a while, but the other is in a Chicago suburb, and I had the honor of being one of her first visitors.

Holy crap, a baby! That my friend home-grew!

She is just precious, and these are my first close friends to bring other humans into the world, so it was a mind-meltingly awesome moment for me. So proud of all my girls!

I went straight from the hospital to C2E2, or the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, for Awesome Event Number Two. (If you haven't met me yet, I am a nerd. A big cuddly happy nerd who likes Wonder Woman and Star Wars, among other things.) This is a con that I have wanted to go to for three years, and I wasn't letting lack of sleep and multitude of babies stop me! My one regret about this is that my "rest day" on Sunday was not at all restful. Sure, I didn't run or workout, but I did spend about 6 hours walking around, climbing stairs, checking out artists, vendors, and other forms of nerdery. Deadpool even said hello! It definitely made my run on Monday tricky... but that's for next week's post!

All in all it was a fantastically emotional week, but I also feel like I've accomplished a lot. I am enjoying the sense of pride that these early stages are bringing me. Just imagine how good I'll feel as the runs get more challenging!