What a day it was. We started our weeking participating in our very first 5K as a family! (Todd’s very first 5K ever), I have to admit that I was pretty nervous about this endeavor. Granted we sarcastically commented all week about “what have we gotten ourselves into” or “thank goodness we’ll have a 5 year old with us so we can walk most of the way”, but beyond the sarcasm I genuinely was nervous about participating in this thing!! Mind you I am married to the most competitive man I’ve ever known and he has succeeded in raising a 5 year old female version of himself. I am in no way, shape, or form competitive and yet they both STILL trash talk me…. no love…
I am so thankful for new friends that Ella Kate has brought into our lives. We ran the race with the Moss Family. I am so proud of Ella Kate and Jon for how well they did. They ran/walked at about a 14 minute mile pace and both finished 3rd in their division. Ella Kate’s competitive nature really showed through in the last leg of the race when she pulled ahead literally of everybody and booked it to the finish line. There was no way she was going to let her Daddy beat her in this 5K! She crossed the line at 41:50. Not too shabby for her first competitive 5K. When we were waiting for the awards to be announced she leaned in to me and said “This was so much fun!! I ran so fast!” and when we walked to the car she announced “In my next race, I’m going to get second”.
And even I have to admit, the 5K wasn’t nearly as scary as I thought it would be. Granted I haven’t ran since May the year I met Todd. He wasn’t even my official “boyfriend” when I participated in my last 5K! But once I got going in this race, I felt prettyu good about it. Now that its over I feel like I should push myself more because I think I could see that finish time go down a little bit.
I’m going to have to try because my competitive husband has already put a challenge out there to decrease his time by 5 minutes…….. oh boy…..
Thanks Chrissie, Josh, and Jon for a fun Saturday morning celebrating the Foundation of Arts in Jonesboro
Life as a not.SO.wicked Stepmom 