My first Mothers' Day and what I miss...

I MISSED A POST... Oops! I missed yesterday from Blog every day as we were out from 10am-10pm so when we got home I was sooo ready for bed!

But here's my catch up after I talk about Mum's Day.

Yesterday was my first ever mothers day and it was wonderful. I got treated to breaky, a tear-jerker of a card from my two fave boys and some vouchers for Rebel Sports (what else do you get fitness Mum?? Haha!). Tim also made sure that I was not doing any more than I needed to all day and I also got to have a couple of lovely meals with my Mum, Step Mum and other wonderful Mums from Church. Treats all round!

I actually wanted to start the day with a run but ended up sleeping in so I think that was a nice treat. I do need to do a run today every day for the rest of my life to make up for all the treats I had yesterday, however, but that's another story! 

Yesterday's post for blog every day in May goes as follows...

Day 12, Sunday: What do you miss? (a person, a thing, a place, a time of your life...)

A time in my life that I miss are the years we spent living in Italy. We lived in a small city called Parma (where the Ham and cheese come from), in the North of Italy, for almost 2 years from 2007-2009 and LOVED it! 

Tim was playing rugby there and I was continuing on with my degree via distance learning.  We were so blessed to have been able to have this time there, if i could do it all over again I totally would. I think a part of me will always miss this time in our lives and Italy will forever have a special place in my heart and memories.

 We got to see lots of Italy and Europe:

The view over Florence

Pisa - 2 hours drive from us

The beautiful Cinque Terra (5 towns) - this is where we would take visitors - so much beauty!

Where I established my love of running

Nice, South of France

The view from our apartment after it had snowed - it never snows where we live in NZ so I LOVED this!

We had an amazing time learning the language, immersing ourselves in a new culture, making amazing friends from all over the world, eating all the amazing food, drinking good wine and seeing many of the wonderful places Europe has to offer. So blessed!

How was your Mothers Day (whether you are a Mum or not)?

What do you miss?

Monday mileage and mothers day...

A day late, yes I know and I do apologise. My computer and I were taking a 'break' yesterday - well actually I was just so busy I never got to the computer. But alas, here it is...

I have decided to start a new thing for my blog and it's called monday mileage. It's all about the mileage I, and my fabulous readers, did (or for some reason didn't) do over the weekend.

To start it off I am going to tell you about the 12km race I competed in on Sunday, which also happened to be mothers day here in little ol' NZ.

I wasn't sure how I'd go only 2 weeks out from the marathon so I didn't put a time goal on it. I was happy to finish it in just under 1 hour and 5 minutes. Next time I'd like to be able to finish in under an hour. It was a great run but started with a very steep 250m hill. Literally we started at the bottom of the hill. Got a bit of a puff on going up but a good way to warm up. Thankfully it was a gorgeous day too (a bit hot at times) but we managed to get in a tail wind at some points too - bonus!! AND... For a mothers day treat my Mum-in-law (a.k.a runner Mum) did the run too... Just what every Mum wants to do on the one day of the whole year dedicated to them... HA!

Posing like a dork way after I'd actually finished

Super runner Mum crossing the finish line - Yahoo!

My lovely sister-in-law (brother's wife) and gorgeous friend also walked it so it was nice to have some company with the three of them at a race for once (instead of not knowing any other competitors). And the quote of the day (not naming any name's but was from my friend...haha) 'did you just get really sun burnt or are you usually that red after you finish a run?' Oh shame on my name - that's right you couldn't really tell where my t-shirt finished and my face began... Story of my life - HA!

Sarah and Saskia cruising across the finish line still looking as gorgeous as ever!

So it was a pretty great day all around and a nice time was spent with the girls.

My wonderful runner Mum-in-law and I

 Later on that day I took my Mum and her partner out for a devonshire cream tea which was a nice treat for us all. A lovely way to end the day.

So what miles did you clock up over the weekend and how did you treat your Mum for mothers day? Would your Mum enjoy running a race on mothers day?