A 5K/month – May Edition: Run the Bay.

My good friend, Scott, took on a cool challenge this year: run an organized 5K each month.  I’ve joined him for the last three.  May’s 5K – Run The Bay – was in my neighborhood, Whitefish Bay.

Post-race euphoria!

Starting line of Run The Bay

My 4-month old son joined too – his first 5K run/walk!  (Mom did most of the work though.)

Nash’s first 5K run/walk!  He is very fired up about it.

The Next 5K will be in June!  Perhaps one of these races I’ll have a time worthy of blogging about…

My favorite part of the run.

Mother’s Day weekend at the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
– John James Audubon

We took a weekend stroll through the Schlitz Audubon Nature center on a perfect Saturday.  The SAN has about six miles of nature trails on 185-acres of land on Lake Michigan.

We’re members, so we try to go as often as possible.  Membership for a family is $60. Otherwise, a daily visit will cost you $6 – which is worth it, especially for an experience so close to home.

The SAN is also a decent option for metro-Milwaukee cross-country skiing.  I’ll have some reviews of the trails and conditions this winter.

Checkout the trailmap for details on hiking, and visit the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center website for more info on this great organization.

Here are the radius50 stats:

DISTANCE FROM DOWNTOWN MILWAUKEE: 13.0 miles, 16 minutes