Weekend warrior: Baby Shows and Marathons

Wow!

What an amazing weekend! So many great things were happening this weekend, and I was lucky enough to attend all of them.

It all started Friday when I went to the Baby and Toddler Show. I will admit, I went into this show with very very low expectations. It’s not that I didn’t want to go, or that I wasn’t interested (it was quite the opposite in fact), but I have been to shows in the past (think: bridal, first home owners and home improvement), and they were kind of boring. Millions of stands/vendors handing out brochures and selling expensive services and products. Whenever I have gone to these shows I leave with bags and bags of reading materials, which inevitably get thrown away, and with the idea that I can make/do it myself, instead of purchasing from the vendors.

But the Baby and Toddler Show was different.

There was heaps and heaps of free competitions, there were heavily discounted new products for sale, free advice and lots of goody bags with samples and freebies. The show had a treasure hunt app, so I played along and won these cool zip lock bags (I *heart* tresure hunts!). I will definitely be marking the date in my calendar for next year.

And then yesterday I did something that was going to test my endurance and stamina. Something a lot of so and so’s said,

“You can’t do that you’re pregnant.”

No, I’m not talking about Tough Mudda (although a few of my friends did it and had an amazing experience), I’m talking about the Run for the Kids, the fun run/walk for that’s associated with the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal. Mr gasket's work has doing the run for the last few years, so he decided that this year it would be a good idea to register himself and his seven month pregnant wife (umm, ok…)

It was the first time mr gasket and I have done something like this together, and during the run/walk we were already talking about who would be pushing the pram at next year’s race.

Here is the proof:

My goals for the race include:

1. Finish the run/walk
2. Finishing the 5.4km run/walk in less than 1.5 hours,
3. Finish the race before it starts to rain
4. Finish the race before the 14.38km marathon run finishes

Here are my results:

1. Finished the run/walk
2. Finished the run/walk in 01:04:33
3. It didn’t rain
4. Finished the run/walk 20 minutes before Martin Dent, the first male marathon runner, crossed the finish line (and even got to watch him cross the line)

Snaps for girlie!

Have you ever done a charity walk/run, or done something that someone said you can’t do? Let me know by leaving a comment!

xoxo Bronwyn

P.S. For the clever people out there, completing a 5km run is on my Mrs Bucket list, however, I’ve decided not to cross it off because, I didn’t actually run the Run for the Kids.

P.P.S But speaking of my Mrs Bucket list, I know I have only crossed off one thing on my list, but this month I’ve decided to knock off as many things on my list as possible, starting with #23 Go without TV for a month. The rules are no watching TV or movies on the TV or streaming TV shows online (yes I know, I’m hardcore).