My Mom Rocks!

I got of work early on Friday and loaded Stark in the car and headed to Timothy Lake to meet up with my parents. Chris followed us a few hours later on his motorcycle and made it just in time for dinner. We had a great evening enjoying the view of the lake and the campfire. We headed inside the tent trailer once it started raining and played rummy and crazy eights while Dad told fun stories of the olden days (when he was growing up).
Saturday morning we woke up to light drizzles and scattered sunshine. Mom checked in for the race then came back to camp to get rid of some pre-race jitters. I made sure to equip everyone with dollar store horns and noise makers and we were ready to go. After a long, all female, line for the porta-potty Mom stated her race a little after 10am. Dad and Chris were about a half mile down the trail at the road crossing looking like some mighty fine cheerleaders. I ran down the trail to meet up with them and while doing so thought, "That wasn't so bad, I should have just run with Mom." Heck, I had the pre-race stomach anyway. So, Mom made her way around the lake, the boys and I packed up camp and I changed out of jeans and into running gear. We met up with Mom at mile 11 and I jumped on in.

This wasn't your typical half marathon. It was a trail run, that in itself is a big deal, changing terrain of roots, rocks, sticks, puddles, skinny paths, and slippery slopes. Oh, and it was 14.2 miles. That extra 1.1 miles counted. Especially with a killer switch-back hill in the middle of that last mile. Lucky for Mom she had her very own pace-setting cheerleader.

It was fun for me to run the last three with Mom. I hope she had as much fun and I did.

  This was the reminder that I needed that I really do like running. Now I'm VERY excited for the RAGNAR RELAY in July. 

The setting was beautiful! I told Mom this in a variety of ways at least six times. This was part of my encouraging -you love running- tactic.

Here is Mom's big finish. I think my encouraging bantering worked because Mom came in FIRST in her AGE GROUP! Yes, she got another medal for that too.

Sorry, I don't know how to rotate the video in Blogger.