12 year old wants to run with me (Read 1075 times)

Charlie ran his first (and perhaps last) 5k this past Sunday. He did great! It was an odd course. I should have checked it out before signing up for it. The first 1/4 mile was through a quarry, very cool, but on gravel. The rest was through the woods and up hills, including a killer hill at the end, followed by steep decline to the finish line. Charlie won first in his age group with a time of 30:15. He was proud of himself but hasn't really talked about since. He complained about the blisters that he got, but that was it. Time will tell. I told him that it's his call as to what he wants to do. I'm thinking he's not going to stick with it. Maybe when he gets older he'll try again. Maybe he'll prove me wrong.

Damn...my first 5k was on an easy course and my time was still over a minute slower! Good work!

I wish he were more into it. Despite feeling like he was going to throw up, and ignoring the blisters until the race was over, he kept on going. I think he has it in him to be a good runner. He did this race with very little training. He won't run by himself and it doesn't always work out that he can run with me.

It's spreading!! Yesterday my 15 y/o and my 12 y/o headed out the door together to run! It was a Kodak moment. They wanted to run a mile, and they did. Anthony did a 7:11 mile, and Charlie did a 8:13 mile. I'm so happy. They even talked about increasing with each run.

Freaky fast kids.... k

It's spreading!! Yesterday my 15 y/o and my 12 y/o headed out the door together to run! It was a Kodak moment. I'll post a picture later when I'm at home.

You've gotta love it!! See what a good influence you are!? Please post a pic if you have time!

Then my husband came to their rescue and took my camera away. He's no fun.

Every party needs a pooper!! I'm constantly clicking away too, usually to the roll of my whole family's eyes!...but when we're looking at the pics months or even years later, they're all really interested and grateful that we've got them! Not to mention that shots like that are the most interesting, as opposed to everyone posed and smiling!

Silly boys--I'm so glad they are having fun with running! k

Every now and then they will let me take pictures of them...but even still, my 12 y/o won't smile in a picture (it's a skate rat thing, so he says).