Saturday, November 19, my six year old son and I ran in the 36th annual Turkey Trot two mile race. This is our second race together. Carson has the running bug! He ran his first two mile this summer. This was his second two mile run ever. The first race we finished in 22 minutes and 22 seconds. I was so proud.
It was very windy and rather chilly on race day. I was expecting to hear a lot of complaining about it being cold and had resigned to finishing this race in about 25 minutes. Much to my surprise none of what I just mentioned ever occurred. Carson was so excited for his race. He had a smile on his face throughout our run. We held hands for a mile or so (due to so many people and me being worried that we'd get separated.) After our race Carson ate his turkey hotdog and ran a little more as he watched the 10 mile runners pass by.
Once again Carson made me so proud! We finished the race in 18 minutes and 24 seconds. Four minutes faster than our first race! Carson finished first among all other six year olds. Unfortunately, he did not place among his age group which was 3-10 year olds. (Had he been a girl he would have placed third.) Carson placed 230/1000 plus runners, but was 26th overall in the age graded competition. What a kid!
