Saturday morning at 9:30, Alyssa and Suzanne ran in the Emma Creek Classic. It is the largest women's fitness event in Kansas. It is a 5k race here in Hesston. They had a record of over 1,000 women registered to run this year. That's a lot of ladies!
Alyssa and Suzanne did very well, with Alyssa beating Suzanne by 1 second! Alyssa finished her first 5k with exactly 43 minutes. Courtney, Emberlynn, and I waited at the finish line and cheered for everybody. After everybody finished, we ate a lot of donuts:)
In the afternoon the college offered $4 admission to all college students and their families. So, we took in an afternoon of lots animals at the Sedwick Zoo in Wichita. We really enjoyed this family time together. It is what memories are made of. The girls slept most of the way home.
Sunday afternoon brought the Puppets of Praise to Hesston Mennonite Church. The girls enjoyed the puppets singing and dancing, and the ice cream afterwards.
We finished out the evening with a visit to another PM'ers house to work on his computer and visit with the family.
3 comments:
Alyssa ran a 5k?! I'm very impressed. How old is she now? How did you train / prepare her for that?
Amazing yeah! 30+ girls in Kindergarten through 4th grade ran in it together. Alyssa and Suzanne enjoyed training for it together. They would go out and run a couple blocks and walk a couple and keep going back and forth at it.
Alyssa is 6, and in her age group (1-10 years), 2 ten year olds and an eight year old ran it under 25 minutes. An eleven year old was only 1 minute behind my time from a couple weeks ago. Amazing.
That is really cool. After I posted my comment I thought "man, he must be pulling my leg. Alyssa must have been in a stroller/jogger thingie." :-)
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