We Did It.........

Josiah and I ran our first race today.................


Before the race....

The starting line-up. There were 173 people who participated.

And we're off.... I am the girl in the hot pink shirt w/ the blond hair beside the blue car. Josiah is behind me but you can only see his shorts.

Still going strong....At this point we had been running a little more then a 1/2 of a mile. Josiah is coming up the hill behind me.... the little booger stayed behind me 90% of the race.....

until the last little bit of the race when my stomach started hurting and I thought I was going to throw up.... He passed me. I had to stop not once but twice to walk .... I never have to do that on 3.2 miles now. Arrrrrrrrg!

I caught back up with him and passed him the first time .... but the second time I stopped I told him to go go go!!!!! He passed me again....... you can see me trailing behind him. Josiah only started running this week and this was the 2nd time he ran the 3.2 miles. I have been running this for a while now. I have been training him on his pace and his breathing this week and on gunning the last .200 of a mile and to give it all he had!

And he did!!!!!!! I unfortunately did/could not. I was praying to the Lord to just let me finish the race! He beat me by 32 seconds. His time was 30 min. even, and mine was 30:32. Out of the 173 participants he came in 40th and I came in 41st. I was in the top 15 women. Karlton said I came in at # 11 for the women???;0) I would have done way better if my breathing was better and I did not get sick and have to walk. Oh well!

This course was all up hill and extremely difficult. I run hills but not this many and certainly not as long as those hills were. My asthma was giving me fits and then my stomach..... but I made it all in one piece. That was one goal and my other goal was not to come in dead last.... and I didn't! YA!!! I wanted to be at least in the middle of the pack.... that is what I had hoped for (for the best).... I did way better then I could have ever imagined..... Karlton was so proud of us and I have to admit so am I!

Here we are after the race all sweaty and dead tired! As soon as I came though that finish line I sat down anywhere I could. LOL!!!

THANK YOU LORD for letting me share this experience with my son today!