I'm jealous - my 15 y/o will be faster than me! (Read 1081 times)

OMG ---- Tonight we did our usual 5k route in 21:48!!!!! I think he's trying to kill me! *LOL* It felt great actually. My legs were tired at the end but I was able to finish strong, with him just a few steps ahead of me. This is my best 5k time since high school. Now lets see if I can do it again next time.

I just finished a small race today (maybe 95 participants) and the winner was a 15 year old!!! What a blow to my ego. But, she certainly has a running future ahead of her. Ahh, to be young again.

Well, we ran our first official 5k race together today, a cross country course. HE BEAT ME. By 30 seconds. He ran 22:00 I ran 22:30. It was too hot, I blame the heat (gotta blame something). The next one will be a road race, and I will be sure to beat him!!

the boy has some mad skillz. thinking for his 3rd 5k in a week those are very good times. back in the stoneage he'd be doing pretty well on my HS XC team and that is without any serious Training with a capital T. congrats to you both

Thanks Joe. The times I thought we had were a little off. He ran 22:12 and I ran 22:50 - officially. I think he was a little bummed that he didn't do better, but as I reminded him he just started running and he's use to a road course. There were lots of members from the XC team running in the race, they left him in the dust with times starting as low as 17:00 minutes and up. But he says that he'll do it, he'll get there. I can't wait!

Yeah, XC is a little different than road. Of course, that depends on the school, too. Some have a fair amount of pavement (I never liked that much, but I digress). Hopefully he does consider joining the track and/or XC team(s). I think he'd enjoy it, and he's got pretty good genes for it (at least from his mom).

In HS I never liked XC, my favorite was indoor track and spring track. My next door neighbor was the captain for the HS team, she was a few years older than I was but she had the coach recruit me from the Jr. HS. Each day the coach would come and pick me up from the Jr. HS and take me to the HS to practice. I still didn't like it, but I ran it. I keep hoping that one of my children will get into running, and stick with it. But, I don't push it on them.

Umm, what's wrong with soccer??!!?? Did you forget that I play soccer? And my daughter lives for soccer? There is nothing wrong with soccer - if you ask me. The foot pain is gone but my ankle is still not better. Guess it would help if I gave it time to heal, but that means to stop running and I don't want to do that. I taped my foot during each run until this past Tuesday, somehow that helped. The ankle will just take some more time, just like when I rolled the right one during soccer. Thanks for asking Joe.

Update. Anthony (Wrestla91 here on RA) has officially joined the XC team.