kkcbelle - 2012-09-09 1:28 PM
Gotta jump into the IM tracking to post a little brag... My 10-year-old superstar daughter just ran her first 10K!! It was a very spur-of-the-moment decision to do a race that her BFF invited us to in June (and I forgot to register, ooops). After yesterday's soccer game, BFF's mom asked if we were running the IronGirl 5K today and I said, "Uhhhhh... can we register day-of?"
Wasn't sure if Shea would be up for it after a hard game and a long first week of school. Asked her and she was totally game, but thought a 5K sounded too easy -- she ran nearly 4.5 miles on the trails on Monday. I told her there was a 10K and she said she wanted to do that. Who am I to say no? So we hosted a BBQ last night and stayed up way too late and I got her up at 5:45am and off we went to register and run.
She tore it up!!! She was pretty grumpy from 1-2 miles and I thought this was a big mistake. But toward the end of 5K she found her mojo and took off and negative split and toward the end end she really cranked it up and averaged abotu 7:35 for the last .5 miles. I was trying to keep up with her, but she smoked me in the finish shoot. Love it!!! She had so much fun! Needless to say, so did I. RR to come very soon!
Meanwhile, back to IM stalking. Go girls!! And Linda, hoping you have had an awesome race too!!!!