After participating in the Smithfield Turkey Trot last Thanksgiving, we knew we wanted to make it a tradition every year. So this year we ran in the Turkey Trot again. We had so much fun running as a family in this fun race.
Emily and Colby are in the Running Club at their school so they have been preparing for this race for a few weeks. Above are some of the kids and teachers in their Running Club that ran the race with them. Because they are in the Running Club, the school paid for the kids entrance into the race. Russell and I thought that was pretty nice of them. The kids and I ran the one mile race while Russell ran the 5k.
Emily did really well in her race finishing in 11:23 minutes as 7th in her age group and 27th overall. She said she loved everything about the Turkey Trot especially the running. She has really enjoyed being on the running team with her friends.
I ran with the boys while pushing Charlotte in the stroller. This was a scary race for Colby. He was running faster than Logan so I told him to go on ahead thinking he would stay with and follow the group. By the time we got to the turn around spot Emily had passed us going back but we never saw Colby. I started to get a little nervous so, thinking Logan and I had missed him in the crowd somewhere, we turned around and started heading back to the finish line to try and catch him. As we turned one of the corners on the course. I heard crying and "Mom!" I looked back and there was Colby behind us crying and running as fast as he could. Apparently, he had missed the turn around spot and had continued running along the 5K course. Luckily someone stopped him and told him to turn around. He came running back crying and thinking he was lost. He must have been running pretty fast because he caught up to Logan and me. Feeling so relieved that we found him, I grabbed him in a hug and told him how glad I was to find him. We ran the rest of the way together. Colby was so scared that he wouldn't even let go of the stroller as we ran. I felt like such a bad mom for having him go on alone at the start of the race. We finally made it to the end and ran fast to the finish line. Colby said that her favorite part of the race was when he found me.
Russell ran the 5k with some of his friends from work.
Russell said the course was pretty rough with most of it being uphill. Despite that, Russell did really well and crossed the finish line before his friends. He was really happy because his ankle has been bugging him lately and it actually felt pretty good during the race.
We all did really well in this race and the boys and I even got ribbons. Colby placed second in his age group even with his little detour. Logan and I placed third in the stroller division. We were kind of sad that we didn't win anything from the raffle or a turkey this year but it was okay. After the race, we took a drive to the Fat Boy factory to get a celebratory ice cream cone. We love that place. What a fun day and a fun tradition.
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