Tiff & Jim's Plain Jane Family: Michael's Run

Today we ran Michael's Run for the Respite Center. (This is the place that Morty spends 1 day a week at daycare.) Morty and I trained for several weeks to get ready for this. For me, it was to work back up to a 3 mile distance. More importantly, for Morty, it was to tolerate riding in the stroller for that distance. We started out just jogging to the dog park (about 1/2 mile), getting out and playing while the dogs ran, and then jogging back. Morty would pretty much fuss most of the way. We built that up until we were jogging 3 miles without any breaks in between - and without any fussing! (sounds a little like his eating breakfast in the Kid Kart! - build up from little bits)

Before the race, a guy from local access tv came by to ask us why we were running in 3 words. I said, "to meet a goal". Jim said "I love my son". I guess neither of us can count to 3 - but I think we had good answers nonetheless!

Morty rode like a champ and finished his first 5K without any fussing! Jim and I jogged it in just about 33 minutes - not too bad... This was Jim's first road race too - and I might add, he did it without any training (wish I could do that!)

We also had the fantastic support of some of the moms from my mommy group - they jogged with us. It was a great morning!