Pink Shamrock 5k and Horseback Riding

On Saturday afternoon awe ran in the Pink Shamrock 5k race, sponsored by The Hibernian Irish Pub in downtown Raleigh in the South Glenwood Avenue area.  It was also put on by 1in9 which is a foundation dedicated to easing burdens for those women diagnosed with breast cancer (Hence the Pink for breast cancer and Shamrock for the Irish Pub).

Here we are ready to race!

We ran together and Colleen knocked almost a minute and a half of her 5k time from her last race...and the course was really hilly!

Our cousins Christine and Charlene signed up as volunteers for the race and joined us for the after party...the Hibernian set up a beer tent with free beer and free food (Bangers & Mash and Shepard's Pie) plus a band playing.

They didn't have free Guiness at the post-race party outside so we went in to get a Guiness before we headed out.

Sunday we drove up to Triton Stables in rural Durham County for Colleen to get her first of two horseback riding lessons.  (The two riding lessons were actually Jim's birthday gift to Colleen last November)  Before the lesson started Avery went and petted some of the horses

Here is Colleen walking the horse out of the stable and to the field

And here she is riding

Afterwards Avery helped Colleen feed the horse.

We capped off the afternoon Sunday by donig a 9 mile jog around the park and neighborhood as part of Colleen's half marathon training!