We decided to switch it up this time & have me push the boys in the stroller and let Cory run on his own. This race was less busy, which was nice. The course was actually fairly similar to the one from last week, only in reverse with a few differences. I haven’t trained much pushing the stroller and the boys have grown a lot since I pushed them in a race 2 years ago (I didn’t do any races last summer). Cory did great and placed #27 overall. The boys & I did well too and I was able to run more than walk, so that made me happy. The stretch that kicked my butt was a long, steep hill at the end of the course which slowed us down a bit (oh, as well as the quick banana snack break for the boys near the start of the race, even though I thought they were both prepared with enough snacks before the race started!).
The boys & I also won the unofficial stroller division (although I actually only saw one other stroller, maybe two)! My overall time was only 4 minutes slower than last week, so that shows you how much we were slowed down by the crowds of people last week because I definitely had a faster pace last week running on my own.
After stretching & recovering a bit…we made our way over to the free pancake breakfast – yummy!!
After the pancake breakfast, they had a kiddie 1 mile timed run, ¼ mile fun run and a costume contest. We ran with each of the boys (Cory with Wyatt & me with Colton) in the ¼ mile fun run all dressed up in their pirate costumes and they loved it. (What Colton didn’t love was one of the area team mascots that ran along with us – there was something about him Colton wasn’t fond of at all!!)
The kids costume contest winners were…..WYATT & COLTON! Who could resist two cute, little pirates?!
Fun. That is what we had Saturday morning!
We are now looking forward to, and continuing to train for, our next race which will be during the week of Thanksgiving. I’m also going to run one more that weekend following Thanksgiving…with another one possible in December before the end of the year. This cold-weather running thing isn’t so bad; although I might change my mind once the roads are covered with snow & ice!
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| Mom & dad complete another race! |
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| Bounce house fun... |
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| ...after a long stroller ride. |
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| Kiddie BOO run runners! (They were so proud of their medals... just like mom & dad got at last week's race.) |
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| Colton. |
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| Wyatt. |
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| Family pic. (Hey, 2 out of 4 with their eyes open isn't bad??!!) |
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| Kids costume contest winners with their prize! |
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