Whistlestop 10K

The nice thing about having kids who do interesting things is that I can write blog posts about fun stuff without actually having to do those things myself. 

Kiah ran her first marathon and hoped to do it again this year. Last May her hip started hurting and she hasn't been able to run much since. She hoped her hip could handle a 10K run. She talked our daughter-in-law Rachel into driving up from Iowa to join her. Christina and a co-worker also signed up. 

Rachel trained the most, Kiah, because of her injury, trained the least. Christina trained sporadically. 

They arrived at 7:00 am and the race began at 8:00 am.  

(Yes - this is a bad picture but it's the only before race one we have)

Whistlestop hosts a full and half marathon, along with a 5 and 10K race called, "Crusin' the Corridor."

Keith missed Kiah's finish last year and hasn't heard the end of it, so this year we made sure to be at the finish line.  

Our four runners started out together, and Kiah and Shea quickly got ahead. They separated at mile three when Kiah stopped to stretch her legs.  Rachel and Christina stayed together and encouraged each other to keep going. 

Shea finished first.

Kiah crossed the line one minute later. 

(This brings back bad memories of taking pictures at Kiah's high school track meets. I never mastered the art of taking decent pictures of people running.)

Thirteen minutes later, Kiah and Rachel finished. We like Rachel's cute wave.

They had a time of 1:08

 Warming up afterwards

Colorful runners are easy to keep track of in a crowd.

Wearing the nice gray running shirts 

they received for running the race. 

We're proud of all of them for finishing.

"Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not."  --Dr. George Sheehan.--