Mother-daughter Workouts

As you may know, my youngest daughter does 5k races with me, and I enjoy the time spent with her.  As for my weight lifting, she has always been supportive of my lifting, but never shown an interest.  That is until just recently.  I had her taking pictures of me lifting 120lbs, and in between pics, I told her to try and lift it.  She is just a tiny thing and just weighs 100lbs, but she managed to get the 120lbs off the floor an inch.  She was so excited.

Much to her dismay, I made her start much much lighter, but she has a competitive nature, so she won't settle for light weight for long.  Now she is asking when we can go and lift together.  It's great to be able to share my passion with someone else in the family!  She even told me she now has new found respect for what I do.

:)

My youngest daughter doing her first deadlifts :)

The Race Bug Has Bitten!

The race bug has bitten!  Yep, after doing my first 5k race, I was warned that I would become addicted.  At first I scoffed because it wasn't really my idea to run the race in the first place - I was running it with a friend because she asked me.  As it turns out, I was wrong - I enjoyed it so much that I have signed up for a race a month this summer :)   The best part is that my teen daughter (who also ran the first race) is also addicted, so now it has become a mother/daughter thing we can do together.

My next race is in 10 days!!  And the next race is in early June, then the race in July is an evening run which should be fun!!
This summer should be so much fun!!