Josh signed up for his annual alumni run for Redmond High School. And just for fun, Isabel got signed up too. The intention was for her to run with Grandma on a shortened version of the course, and just having a mile or so of a fun run instead of doing the whole 5K.
So the race starts, and off they go! We're waiting at the first turn that they run past the crowd.... and here goes Josh!
And here goes Isabel! Yay Isabel! But wait.... where's Grandma?? At this point she's supposed to be taking a different route than the rest of the runners that will cut off almost 2 miles of the course. But she's following the other runners, not Grandma. Because.... she's completely left Grandma in the dust! So Isabel runs by, and quite a bit later, so does Grandma.
At the next point when the runners go past the crowd, we set up a little finish line for Isabel. Yay Isabel! She's gone almost 2 miles instead of almost one. And she doesn't even look winded or tired. Most impressively, she is ahead of other runners from the high school cross country team! Wow! Way to go Isabel! Now we need to watch for Grandma.
Here she comes! Grandma has ALSO run almost two miles! Way to go Grandma! I know at this point I would have never made it the first mile, let alone two. Grandma earns a cookie!
And here are all of our runners for the alumni race. Way to go! Next year Isabel gets to try the full race, since she did most of it anyways and she sure looked like she could have finished without any trouble. I think Grandma will take the year off and just play cheerleader on the sidelines :)
