Pacers, Pumpkins, and Cancellations

Yes I tried to come up with another P word but I'm just not clever enough and you'd think with all the practice I get on Lumosity and my word bubbles game I could!   I've been keeping busy lately and my kiddo has been keeping up with me so that is exciting!

We volunteered for a local race that was the marathon I did over 10 years ago.  I helped coordinate the bag drop booth and the pacers.  Man this wasn't a big assignment and it took so much coordination I can't imagine those volunteer coordinators that do even more!  Thanks to everyone and anyone who has ever volunteered to make a race happen it's a lot of work and we appreciate it!!  All I had to do on race day was find parking and shuttle the pacers to the half way point and the others back.  All Aiden had to do was look cute and not have a melt down which he did perfectly!  The pacers were right on with their times and it was awesome!  My little guy kept trying to run with the rest of them and I had to catch him by the hood of his jacket because he's getting too fast for me!  I use to make fun of the parents with the kid leashes backpacks but I may be starting to see the value in them... JUST KIDDING my kid would freak out with one of those.  I can barely keep him in a stroller or carrier any more.  It was a brisk morning and a great day to race and spectate.  The turn around point was near what I believe is a cereal factory, I heard one of the runners ask why it smelled like cookies, oh the cruelty!!

We went to a Maiz Maze which turned out to really be hay not corn so not sure why they called it that and saw pumpkins which my son decided the best thing to do with a pumpkin is attack it.  That's his new thing now to beat on everything, including my face.  That may be slightly my fault since I bought him a drum and keep teaching him to hit it.  He did not appreciate the prickliness of the hay and I have picture that captures it perfectly.  He did try to make friends however.

Now that I had my two half marathons in the bag I was planning on finishing my season with a Nutcracker Sprint Triathlon and was so looking forward to it and my "secret" plan that I had but I just found out they cancelled the tri and decided to only have the 5k run this year!! Boooooooooooo!!!!  So I had done this tri 2 years ago not knowing I was pregnant and I placed 1st in my age group, granted mainly because it was a small race and I was all trained up from my IM I had just done, but to my surprise it qualified me for Nationals.  I wanted to go so bad but then found out I was indeed pregnant.  My secret plan this year was to go again and qualify and then tell hubs well now I just have to train for triathlons because I can't pass up an awesome opportunity like that twice right!??  Now that the possibility is not even there I find myself at a loss with what I want to do.  Do I keep training for other runs, do I try to do some off season stuff like lifting weights, do I plan out a triathlon season for next year even if I don't think I have enough time to train for 3 sports with a little guy?  My motivation has left me without my super secret plan and I need to re-energize myself with a new plan! Help!