Now that I'm taking over more and more responsibilities at work (in preparation to become the new NCOIC later this year), I've been busier and busier at work and with work related things. Tuesday I was unable to run much due to the blisters and thought I would give them a day or two to heal up. Wednesday we participated in a family run downtown by the zoo. It was fun, but only 2 miles (still on the fence as to whether or not I should count those miles, but I will count Eli's 2 miles and add that to his total, for sure). Eli skipped Cub Scouts to go to it and both of the kids missed getting a free homework pass by skipping the Chick-fil-a night for their school (we took them to eat there after the race, but the school officials were all gone by that time) - they both wanted to go to the race so badly!
The race was a trail run and was littered with rocks, twigs, sticks and other trail debris, so no way was I going barefoot for this run, although the thought did cross my mind! Mark and Eli ran together and I ran with Zsa Zsa. She finished her first mile in 13:48 and her total 2 mile time was 28:23...we were much slower on the second mile than the first, oh well! Eli's final time was 22:22. Mark stated that he ran the majority of the race.
The way this run works is that it costs $1 to sign up. I was sent several e-mails/facebook msg's about said zoo run, but there was never a price attached to it, so we thought that it was a free race. Silly me...nothing in life is free, I suppose. Anyway, when you get there and pay your dollar, you put your name in this binder that has pages broken down by both age and gender (Male 9 and under; Male 10-14; Male 15-19; and so on, as well as the Female category). Once you finish the run, you go back over to the table and fill in your time (honor system). Once everyone has crossed the finish line, they look at all the ages/genders and figure out who came in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd and those individuals get a ribbon (which the $1 entry fee goes towards, as well as water and cups for after the run). Since we did not know it was $1, we didn't stop to get any cash, so we scrounged around and came up with $2 so we could enter the kids.
At the end, they called out both of their names as being 1st place in their age group! We were so excited! Mark and I both discovered that if we had entered, we would have each placed 3rd in our respective age groups. Next time we'll have to make sure we have money to enter.
Thursday found me doing volunteer work after I got off of work and not getting home until almost 7pm, so once again, no miles.
Friday was another late day at work followed by a trip to return some library books the kids checked out...you know how many miles I got in, so no need to say it :( Oh, and it was 97 degrees when I got home, so it would have been a VERY HOT run!
Eli is looking forward to running with me tomorrow before swimming lessons, so maybe we'll be able to get a few miles added to our totals...for Ethan and Reid.
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