Sri Chinmoy 4km
Centennial Park | grass | easy
It wasn't exactly a cast of 1,000's down at Mackay Oval this morning. In fact the numbers dwindled even moreso once the 14km and 7km groups were sent on their way.
At the start/finish line for the 4km we had two girls in the U17 category, a girl around Jackson's age, her Dad and us. So in the light rain we set off dodging puddles & mud. Jackson took off like a bear was chasing him and led the group out to the first turn around the lake. He was clearly going out fast because of the pretty girl in the group. I didn't have the heart to chip him in front of her and tell him to run at his pace rather than hers. At about the 1km mark he was blowing up big time, the girl and her Dad had moved 50m ahead. As he was gasping for air I said to him that he would learn a valuable lesson today. LOL
For the rest of the race Jackson was running on empty and really regretting going out hard. We plodded to the finish line and stayed for a little while for the pancakes and presentation. Presentation you ask ? Yep because of the small numbers, Jackson picked up a 1st place bling in his category and I got a 2nd place bling in mine. LOL.
Good to see CRs Blkbox, Beki, PlodBod, Ellie (solo cheer squad) & Vurt out there as well.
It wasn't exactly a cast of 1,000's down at Mackay Oval this morning. In fact the numbers dwindled even moreso once the 14km and 7km groups were sent on their way.
At the start/finish line for the 4km we had two girls in the U17 category, a girl around Jackson's age, her Dad and us. So in the light rain we set off dodging puddles & mud. Jackson took off like a bear was chasing him and led the group out to the first turn around the lake. He was clearly going out fast because of the pretty girl in the group. I didn't have the heart to chip him in front of her and tell him to run at his pace rather than hers. At about the 1km mark he was blowing up big time, the girl and her Dad had moved 50m ahead. As he was gasping for air I said to him that he would learn a valuable lesson today. LOL
For the rest of the race Jackson was running on empty and really regretting going out hard. We plodded to the finish line and stayed for a little while for the pancakes and presentation. Presentation you ask ? Yep because of the small numbers, Jackson picked up a 1st place bling in his category and I got a 2nd place bling in mine. LOL.
Good to see CRs Blkbox, Beki, PlodBod, Ellie (solo cheer squad) & Vurt out there as well.
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What a crack up! I'm glad you got bling, that's the best thing about these small events, always a good chance of taking home a prize :-)
Great to see you back out running yesterday!
Great to hear about the bling - but did he get the girl???
Jackson ... running on empty. Very clever :-)
Well done to both of you!
I hope Jackson wasn't Browne-d off by the experience.
Congrats on the double bling.
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