Better late than never. Last week was the President's Day 5k & 10k. Scott signed himself, Austin and I up to run in it months before it was to happen. He tried getting the day off but they wouldn't let him so his back up, Seth was supposed to walk the 5k with me. Austin was running the 10k. The race started and Austin was off running and Seth stayed with me for a bit. When the split for the 10k runners to go another direction than the 5k runners, Seth said, See ya. And took off on the 10k route. Little booger. When we approached the last stretch of the race I turned around and saw Austin running up right behind me. He was on a roll and running at a good pace and didn't look tired at all.
He came in 1st in his age group. 7th overall. We tried an experiment with the bibs the participants wore during the run. Austin wore both his and Scott's bibs. Each had a tracker on it to record the runners times. He had Scott's inside his shirt, number facing his chest. He had his number on the front, numbers facing out. We didn't think about this at the time we put them on but it is recorded that Scott beat Austin by a smidge and came in 6th overall. Scott's time being 48:12.3. Austin did pretty dang good. I'm very proud of him.
Now for that little booger that left me. I came in just over a minute after Austin so we waited around for Seth. I didn't know how long he would take being that he does not like running and I was thinking the whole time while waiting for him that he was thinking that he wished he would've stayed with me. I was ready to send Austin back for him but then we saw him coming down the path just before the last turn before the home stretch. He ran the whole time and came in at just around an hour. Since he didn't have a bib we don't know his exact time. But he did it and I am very proud of him too.
