For the record, the temps that morning were in the upper 30's, and my leg muscles don't work very well when they're frozen, which is why I'm wearing the running tights. I'm well aware that my brother John managed to wear shorts all through his high school cross country running season in northern Vermont (where Fall temps are even colder than this), but in my defense, 1 - I'm old, and 2 - I think I've got the legs to pull them off.
Then on Oct. 29th, we all had races. Our dentist's office was sponsoring a 5k and 1 mile kids run. Patrick ran in the 1 mile run and did a great job, finishing in 3rd place with a time of just over 9 minutes (and the course included some hills). Lenny ran in the 5k event. Mom ran with Lenny to encourage him along (and make sure he didn't get lost) and he ended up finishing in 27:30 (8:51 mile pace) - his best time ever! Lenny and I had practiced running 5k a few times, but he hadn't ever finished in under 30 minutes, so this was a huge improvement.
Also on the 29th, I ran in my first half marathon. My official time was 1:30:18 (6:54 mile pace), which was more than 7 minutes faster than my best time from training. I placed 28th out of 1546 overall, and 4th out of 85 for my age group division.
Now I'm looking to train for a full marathon next year. I think I've found one down in southern Georgia at the beginning of March. There is going to be both a full marathon (26.2 mi.) and half marathon (13.1 mi.) race held, and I think Tamra is planning to run the half marathon (she just doesn't know it yet).
