Two weekends ago I headed to Pittsburgh to run in a race with some of the girls from the Y. I went last year but was 7 months pregnant with Cassidy so I didn’t get to run. This year I was part of the marathon relay team that broke the 26.2 miles of the marathon up into 5 segments (mine was 4.7 miles). Some of the girls ran the half marathon (13.1 miles) too.

Our little team is called the YNots with the taglines “Y Not Run?” and “Running makes me hot.” The Y part comes from the fact that we all met at the YMCA doing exercise classes together. The taglines are snarky because honestly, we’re the biggest bunch of complainers and some of us hate running so we were trying to think of all the excuses NOT to run and then just go and do it anyway.

It was such a fun weekend, although we joked that we as moms needed to go run a marathon to actually get a girls’ weekend away ;-) One of the girl’s sons had left a Batman figure at someone’s house and she brought it on the trip to return it. Poor Batman ended up being our token male, appearing at various segments of the trip. He even ran the relay with us and was passed from one team member to the next at different checkpoints.

Sorry, you just get everyone’s cell phone pics, but this is the weekend in a blur!

By the way, I signed up for my first half marathon in October…ahhhhh!