1st Race

On Friday night Tyler and Carter were in their first running race. Tyler has been asking to be in one for a while and I found a kid running club that did races so we signed them up. It was a half mile trail race at Bear Creek Park. The boys had a ton of fun (for the most part) and we found out that a few friends from Tyler's class and from Carter's class were running in it too! We got there a little early to register them and they got their numbers pinned on. The boys ran around some and then we walked the course so they knew were to go. I got as little worried at that point because its a true half mile and towards the end of us walking it Tyler was saying he was tired. However once we were done walking it we found his friends and they were so excited to go wait at the starting line. They sounded the horn and the boys were off. Justin and I walked over to the finish line and waited for our boys to appear. Tyler got 7th out of 35 preschool boys with a time of 4:35. He did great and didn't even seem tired when he finished, but was excited to get his lemonade and snacks and his ribbon. We then waited for Carter, which seem to take awhile. I started getting nervous when he finally came in sight, holding a lady's hand. Once he saw us he let go of her hand and finished strong. He finished 30 out of 35 with a time of 6:58. But then he told us what happened - he fell and hurt his hand. He was totally fine, but I guess a little tired because he cried a bout it for the next half hour, refusing to let us clean it or anything. Once he finally got a band-aid on it he was fine again and says he wants to run again next week. We are hoping to make it, but we do leave for Maryland very early Saturday morning so we will have to see. Either way we are very proud of how they did during their first race. Tyler for doing his best and running the whole time, and Carter for getting up and finishing. Even if we can't do next week I am sure we will try to find more this summer to get them involved in.