Saturday, May 7, 2011

Tiger Trot 5k

Abby and I ran the Tiger Trot 5k in Loveland yesterday afternoon. She had told me about it a week ago and wanted to run together. I told her she would need to train. So we did. Twice. And I kept having to tell her to Slow Down, and Pace Herself.


The starting line! There were a lot of die-hard runners running with their kids. The guy beside me in the yellow shirt just ran the Boston Marathon and had already ran 8 miles on his lunch break! We had the option to compete separately or combine our times as parent/child, which is what we did.
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Carl brought the other kids along to cheer for us and take pictures :) I don't have my official time back yet, but I know I beat my race time from my first 5k :) And I know that Abby beat me!  3.1 miles later, here is Abby crossing the finish and me coming along in the background. She did AWESOME! It was fun running a race with my favorite 9 yr. old over Mother's Day weekend!


and finally, a little motivation...


 and my favorite...


7 comments:

The Dickinsons said...

Cute! Glad y'all got to run together. =)

Rob and Deanna said...

Way to go, janie & Ab! Yu onpela fit mama tru! ;-)

Heidi said...

Awesome!

Liz said...

That is awesome! I just ran/walked my first 5k today... until I got there I never thought about my kids doing it eventually! There were several kids - what fun!

Kelly Jones said...

I so love the last quote! I think it's awesome that you are such a good example of health and fitness. Michelle Obama should hire you ha ha

Keith and Crystal said...

I would love to do that someday. :)

Stephanie said...

Still love those signs. :)

And still proud of my racing friend. :)