As I previously posted HERE, Lily, Ella and I registered for a 5k back in February. We have faithfully trained since registering. It has been hard work with a lot of motivation, sweat and some tears. We have realized that one girl really likes running and another absolutely hates it.
Thursday night, I checked back in my registration email to look up the race website and figure out the details for packet pick up. I was completely shocked and disappointed to find out that the race had been changed to a VIRTUAL race. They had not notified the participants! I texted back and forth with my friend Christine, who, with her two girls, trained with us. She didn't know either. So 36 hours before our race, we found out it wasn't really happening. This was so disappointing. This final week of training had been hard. It's hot here and a lot of motivation & encouragement has had to happen to get the girls to work hard. Christine and I had also been telling our girls how fun the race is - the atmosphere, the music, all the runners, the sponsors, the swag bags, the post race snacks. Welp, now we had not race for Saturday morning.
Since the race was virtual, we decided to let our girls decided if they wanted to finish and do the 5k. Lily said YES and we ran it together this morning. She may be my runner and I would absolutely love that. She even said, "Mom, this is so fun, I may want to do this every Sunday morning." I'll take the one on one time any way I can snag it with each of my kids.
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