Kathryn Race

This past January we sat down as a family to set some goals. One of the goals that both of the girls had was to run a 5K. Now this was something that Caroline completed last year but she wanted to do another 5K and this was a new goal for Julia. Sterling just wanted to do a fun run (1 mile).

As we were looking at the races in the area, we noticed there was a 5K on Kathryn's birthday. What great gift to give to each other and to her! So we decided we would sign up and run the race. We didn't have much preparation time as I spent time in Missouri but after I got back, we spent some time at the track that is just down the street from our house. Sterling and Julia would run/walk the 3 miles while Caroline kept running and running. One of the days she was running, she ran 6 miles and wanted to run more but I made her stop. I was concerned she would injure herself and she would not be able to run the race.

We got to the race with only 5 minutes to start which was not good for warm ups or for actually starting with the pack. But we made due. I took off pushing Andrew and running with Caroline while John stayed with Sterling and Julia. Caroline was able to improve her time from December by about a minute. She was pleased but bummed that it was not as fast as she wanted. Julia and Sterling completed the race which was great. Julia had one of her good friends join in on the race at mile #2 which totally helped her along the way....Thanks Emily!! Sterling spent quite a bit of time on John's back as he would run as hard as he could and then was much too tired to walk any further. In order to keep up, John hauled him.

John's brother and his family, his parents, and our dear friends the Nelson's came to cheer us on. It was a great way to start the day out.