10k - check

We survived our first real race in our training on our way to our respective runs in December. We ran the Tour des Fleur at the Arboretum in Dallas right next to White Rock Lake. It was a great race, a nice very route and lots of fun vendors afterward! Ryan is training for the full White Rock Marathon so the 10k was a cinch for him. Luckily, he was very sweet and ran at my pace (I'm training for the half marathon, so at this point 6.2 miles was a big distance for me!) We completed the race in 1 hour and 2 minutes with no walk breaks - this was right at a 10 minute mile, which was my goal!

This is a picture of us and two of my colleagues after the race. (Check out more pictures of Ryan and I running here.) Maxim has a program that sponsors any races employees want to run as long as 5 or more people sign up - it's a great deal! Unfortunately, we didn't get everyone for this picture. All in all we had a great time and were very proud of our accomplishment! Plus, we got great running shirts for our training!

House Update:
We close on Thursday... oh my only 4 days away! We are so excited!! Our plan is to work on the house for the first two weeks (cleaning, painting, sprucing up the back yard, etc.) before we make the actual move. We're thinking mid-October for the big day (volunteers are welcome). We'll keep you posted, but assuming all goes well we should be homeowners as of September 29, 2011!!!