A Race a Month - July

July just has not been my month.
I was signed up to do two different races this month.  BOTH did not happen. : (

First, I planned on doing a 10k on July 17th.  I had every intention of running it and even ran 6.2 miles three different times that week to make sure I was ready.  Then, the extreme heat hit.  There were several emails cautioning runners, and in addition I wasn't feeling so hot the day before.  I decided to forget about it because I found a 5k I could run in Des Plaines the next weekend.

I woke up for the 5k ready for the race and it was raining.  We had terrible storms the night before, but I assumed the race would still happen.  Well, I was wrong.  As we were driving to the race, we saw a lot of terrible flooding.  When we got to the race, we realized the race was cancelled because of this.

I have decided that it is just not in the cards for me to run a race in July.  I can't say I didn't try though!

This picture does not give the flooding justice...

What do you do when you are up early and have nothing to do?  Get McDonald's oatmeal!

Mrs. Barnett : )