![harpo](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3406/4637753576_a0bdd206dc.jpg)
This is the 3rd year I've participated in the Helping Paws: Wag, Walk, & Run 5K. Last year I wrote about it here. This year Kyle didn't run, but he went with me :-) And took pictures for me.
![my team](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4031/4637750452_e475f734a5.jpg)
These pictures just remind me how much I HATE having my picture taken... I think that's a common thread with photographers :-P we love taking pictures, but hate being the one in the photo. Oh well, I'll get over my dreaded feeling of seeing these and share them with you anyway. I just look like such a dork... like in this one:
![i'm a dork](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4637148109_63fbef02e6.jpg)
I've been keeping track of my running over on my workout blog. I actually wrote out my HRM stats here. But running a 5K is an every other day occurrence for me. But for this run I set a personal goal of wanting to run it in 30 minutes or less. Actually it was kind of ridiculous to set that goal, because my friend, Sally, and I usually run it in about 35 minutes, Saturday morning was our best time of 33:40. Last week when I was in Missouri I ran it in about 32 minutes... so I was still hopeful. But I'm sad to say I didn't hit my goal. I think it all went wrong when I started off with an 8:30 minute first mile! What was I thinking? I think I wasn't, I was just running and it was exciting at the start. This caused me to be tired throughout the whole next two miles. But I kept pushing myself.
![here we come](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4637756888_e3f49fea0b.jpg)
And I pushed myself right through the finish line, finishing with a time of 31:06, which is my best so far this year... just not what I was hoping for.
![finish line](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4637755926_7c13f18d07.jpg)
Besides being a super humid day, Harpo had a lot of fun!
![post run Harpo](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3346/4637144491_f3a592d190.jpg)
He also got to meet some of our friends and their new furbaby, Gilligan
![sarah jer gil](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4051/4637752482_b63310e860.jpg)
We didn't stick around as long as we did the year before, we waited to hear the awards (the guy who won last year won again this year... surprise. With a finishing time of 18 minutes or something crazy like that!!!)
When we pulled up to our house, we arrived to see two ducks resting in our front yard!
![ducks in our yard](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4637749312_e517f9172d.jpg)
It was pretty funny, they stayed there as I walked to our front door. Then Kyle let Harpo out of the jeep and Harpo chased them away, hee hee.
Happy Spring!
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