Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Not too "hot" to trot!

Yesterday on Thanksgiving morning, we decided to continue our family tradition of running in a turkey trot. In the past we ran one in Smithtown about 25 minutes east of us since this was a race where my sister's family could meet us. They went away for the weekend up to Maine and we decided to run in the first Massapequa Turkey Trot. This race was closer to our house but the big news was that this was going to be 12 year old Courtney's first ever 5k!

The weathermen predicted cold weather with rain coming in later in the day. When we woke up in the morning it was high 30s but dry. As usual, the first challenge was what to wear. We wound up like the three bears: I probably over dressed a bit, Courtney under dressed a bit and Amanda was probably just right but it all worked out.

This was going to be my first race on the road to recovery/road to IMFL. I'm planning on racing much less this year as compared to previous years and I really wanted to take it relatively easy. Luckily Courtney decided she wanted to run with me so we mixed up mostly running/jogging with a few walk breaks mixed in. We were coming down the chute side by side and an evil thought went through mind on how to make sure I beat her but she finished strong, out kicking me to the end to snag 5th place in the female under 12 AG. Amanda wasn't "racing" this race but took 3rd in the 13-19 AG anyway so we stuck around for her to pick up her hardware.

This was a great race for the family. We went home to take the big 24lb turkey out of the oven and get ready for the rest of the family coming over. We wore our Turkey Trot shirts with pride throughout the day and had a great holiday.

Happy Thanksgiving all!

7 comments:

Big Daddy Diesel said...

Congrats on the race, that is so cool the whole family went out and did it

Georgia Snail said...

Congrats on making it a family affair...I was born in Lindenhurst, just a rocks throw away...

Teamarcia said...

That's a great family tradition! 3 bears haha!

TRI714 said...

I love it !! all 3 of you there. doesn't get any better.

Pahla said...

There's nothing better than running with the kiddos - congrats to all three of you!!

Unknown said...

congrats on getting the whole family out there! that's great!

Julie said...

Hi Rock Star,
It sounds like you had a fantastic Thanksgiving! Congrats to both of your super star running daughters:) Aswesome! I love that you wore your race shirts the entire day too:)