Running Pictures...

Well I dug around Kiersten's room & found the USB cable for the camera :). So here are the pictures I promised.

Kiersten's first Cross Country Meet at Silver Creek's Community Park


I was afraid that Kiersten would get trampled, but she is a tough cookie & hangs in there.


Here she is close to the finish & running getting ready to pass the girl walking. Which wouldn't have been an issue if Kiersten didn't have to walk, but she is getting better :)


Here is the 2nd meet..Crawford County. The course was alot hillier than Silver Creek & there was one hill that was a monster. She ran up all the hills!! She did say that she walked a little, but even with the course being harder she improved her time by 40 seconds


Finally here are a few pictures from Lanesville Heritage where she ran 2 miles & her goal was to run the entire race (no walking) and she did it!! She also improved her time by another 30 or so seconds.







Here she is coming across the finish line..


If you can't tell I'm really proud of Kiersten. For anyone that has ran before it is a hard sport to love, more so in the beginning, but Kiersten has stuck with it & she continues to set goals & to meet those goals. Good Job Sis!

Lanesville Heritage Run...

Kiersten ran in the kids 2 mile run this morning. She improved her time yet again. I believe it was 17.10 (or somewhere close to that, waitng for results to be posted). Her goal was to run the whole way & she did. There were a couple nice hills which was good to build up her strength.
She did receive a sports bottle as an award for placing 2nd for the girls within her age group. She was surprised. Overall she placed 13th. I believe there were around 35-40 kids in the race (again, waiting on results to be posted).

I know I said that I would have pictures posted today, but I can't locate the cord to the camera. Hmmm where could Kiersten have put it? Oh well the mystery will be solved Monday when she comes back home :).

Ron & I are going Lanesville to watch some of the tractor pull tonight. Then tomorrow I'll go watch Zach's game. Then the week is busy as usual.

Running, Running, Running....

Kiersten has joined the cross-country team this year. I really didn't think that I was going to get her to go back after the first practice. She got in the car after the first practice & was in tears because she didn't want to do it again. This was a Thursday and it was close to 90 degrees. I told her that she really needed to give it another day & run over the weekend then she could decide that following Monday. I dreaded picking her up from Friday's practice I just knew that she was going to be extremely ticked off, but she wasn't. I was surprised when she got in the car & was all smiles. She had fun & she chatted all the way home.

She has stuck with it & has improved quite a bit & it has only been about 2 weeks. She ran 2 miles on Sunday & she finished just under 20 minutes. We both know that this isn't a great time, but she also has the goal of decreasing her time each time she runs & she has!

On Tuesday she had a meet at Silver Creek & her time was 18.17. Then on Wednesday she had another meet at Crawford County & her time was 17.49. I think she did a remarkable job on her time, especially since Sunday (20 min.) Also, the course was alot harder at Crawford. They had a very long steep hill towards the end of the course & she hung with it & ran up the hill!! She looks so tiny compared to the other girls that are running (especially the 8th graders).

Kiersten has decided to run the 2 mile run at Lanesville Heritage Festival tomorrow morning. I'll be there to cheer her on :).

Zach's baseball has slowed down quite a bit. He has had a couple of practices & he is having a practice game on Sunday against a team from South Central. As always we are looking forward to going to it.

I'll be sure to post tomorrow about Kiersten's run & I'll add pictures then. Let's keep our fingers crossed that her time improves even more tomorrow. She has another meet on Tuesday.

WOW

Things have been busy lately. As you know school has started back & it has been really busy in the office. My life lately has been work, some baseball practice, cross country practice & meets & then more work.


Zach's baseball season is winding down. He should be starting basketball before too long. Zach has had yet another birthday & he is now 11. Hard to believe that the kids are growing up so fast. I never thought that 11 years would go by so fast, but it has. Just think in a few short years the kids will be getting more independent, driving, wanting to date...ugh I'm not ready for any of it & I'm not sure that I will ever be ready for it. I guess that I'll just have to pull up my boot straps & get through it :).