He headed out early and Kaiden and I left about an hour later and went to Lincoln Park to watch and cheer everyone on. We got their about 10 minutes before the start of the race and Kaiden was occupying himself by having me time him in little 'mini races'... He was anxious to see his Dad run by so the 'races' took care of that!
Before long the lead police car came in to the park and we started cheering everyone on.. I was a little suprised that there wasn't more people in the park, but we tried to make up for it! There was so many people that we almost missed Kevin! He saw us first, in fact. Kathy Patti and Kathy ran by in a group and they looked great! Chris and Kellie were walk/run leaders so we waited for them to go by and then Kaiden and I headed over to the finish line in the Fairgrounds.
We missed the top two or three finishers but saw everyone else.. Kevin did awesome! His time was 52:14 for a 8:26 pace. YEAH for him! In fact, everyone did great yesterday.. Kathy Patti Kathy and Jill all had PR's.. Kathy F coming in first at 1:00:00 even, and Jill did awesome too coming in shortly after that at 1:00:41and shaving 9 minutes off from last year!! AWESOME!! Patti and Kathy H. PR'd too with 1:03 and 1:04.. Everyone I talked to had a PR!! Definitely the weather helped with that!! Way to go guys!!
Kevin asked me Saturday night if I felt I was missing out not doing Abe's this year and at the time (just hours after my 20 mile run) I said NO!!!!!!!!!!! But once Sunday morning came and I watched my friends go by in a group, I thought, ya know, I do miss being out there! Next year!!
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Tell Kevin congratulations on an awesome time. That is so cool. Thanks for keeping me updated on the girls too. They did great.
Hey Chuck!
Oh he's been flying high since Sunday!! ha
You had a great time too! And yep the girls rocked Sunday!!
Kari,
Actually my time wasnt that great. I didnt run the race. I was just pacing Heather. She wanted to beat her time two years ago and I told her that I would pace her to reach her goal. You should have seen the look on her face every time I told her to get going, move faster and dont quit. We did it and in the end she was very happy. When she is happy...its a good day for Chuck.
LOL!! Sometimes I am such a dork!! I saw you running with Heather and I thought to myself, he must be staying with Heather for this one... even cheered for ya!! Well, I guess I'm so used to you always having a 'great time' that I spoke before I thought!! Story of my life!! :-)
Glad to hear she AND you were happy!!
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