AW: My DS's first 5K race!!

[daisysle]

My 14 year old son raced his first 5K yesterday morning. I told him that since it was mother's day, I expected him to place in his age group as his gift to me. LOL!!

Unfortunately, he is sick; stuffy nose, cough, etc... Anyway, he sucked it up and ran a 24:12 placing him 2nd out of 16 in his age group! My dad ran with him to pace him since DS's goal was to run it faster than 23:22 (my dad's first 5K time). He wanted family bragging rights. meaning, he wanted to beat my first 5K, my dad's first 5K and DH's first 5K finish times. He managed to beat mine and was seconds from beating DH's (24:08).

My dad said if Josh wasn't coughing so hard, having a hard time breathing and didn't need a walk break, he could have easily killed his goal.

Needless to say, I'll be signing him up for another one in the near future!!

[venice2007]

That's great!!!!!!

[taratru]

Wow! Good for him.

[shorty20]

Yay for him!

[agrippa]

That's great! My DS has run a fun run and now insists that he can make it an entire "real race". I told him maybe when he is five. :-)

[al320]

yay!! speediness certainly runs in your family!!

[mayflowers22]

Yay!

[grk2012]

Congrats to him! He comes by it honestly.

[marchmom06]

Wow! That's amazing!

[MrsE]

Aww, love it!

[cinco]

Yay!

[katinthehat]

that is so awesome! congrats to him (and you!)

[daisysle]

Thanks ladies. I was/am pretty proud. Now I want him to work on speed. LOL!!