Running Together

Although I definitely consider myself a "runner" now, I wouldn't say I love it. I love the way I feel when I'm DONE, but the actual running part? I'm not so much a fan. I began running a little over 3 years ago when I wanted to lose weight. I've lost the weight, and now I run to maintain. I still try to run at least 3 times a week. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. I have been trying to give myself grace on the weeks I don't get to and not beat myself up mentally. With all that being said, I've tried to get Tripp and Makinley to start running. I think it's a great form of exercise that they can do for the rest of their life. Tripp started running for MCES cross country at the end of third grade, and he's still doing it. This was Makinley's first year. I can't say that Makinley loves it. Actually, I'm pretty sure she hates it because she told me she's never doing it again. I hate it though, because she is GOOD. She gets better and better with every run. I have a year to work on her; maybe I can convince her to keep doing it! Tripp, on the other hand, does love it. Over the last 2 years, I've watched him shave all kinds of time off his races. The boy is FAST. I am trying to really encourage him to stick with it. I think it could really take him somewhere if he wants it to. In the meantime, he MAJORLY leaves me in his dust when we run together.

Like this weekend. Every year our school does an annual fund raiser that is a 5K. We've been doing it for years, and the past two years, Tripp has run the 5K and not just the Fun Run. Makinley sticks to the Fun Run, which is just fine. Her goal this year was to get in the top 10 for girls, and she got 3rd! She was so excited to get a medal!

Tripp got 9th overall and first for 5th grade boys. He finished in 24:45. That is crazy to me. Like I said, he needs to stick with running!

When I go running, I go with two of my coworkers. One of them couldn't come to the race, but Jennifer and I ran the race together. Our original goal was to just FINISH the race. But, as we started running, we figured out we were making good time, and so we set a goal to finish in under 30 minutes. And we DID! We finished in 29:44. We were super proud of ourselves!!

And, Joey and AG were the best cheerleaders there!

Usually sports are Joey's forte with the kids. So, I love that running is something I can do with them!