My dad's cousin Michelle organizes a local charity run every year that benefits the local high school athletics department. It's in Hilmar and it's called the Udder Run. There is 2-mile and a 5-mile race as well as a kids fun run. Before kids, I did the 5-mile race and it was awesome- stinky, but awesome. It weaves through a couple of local dairies (and right by my great-uncle's farm) and MAN it stinks- but it's pretty darn cool to have the cows stampede the fence lines to check out the runners :) Anyway, now I do the 2-mile race and it's less-stinky. The cool thing is, every year I've run the race, the weather has been drastically different- one year it was 85 degrees at 8am, one year it was 60 degrees at 8am, one year it was raining, and this year it was a crazy windy...so much so that it hurt to stand outside because we were getting pelted with sand and dirt.
This year, the race was on the Saturday before Travis's birthday and our trip to Santa Cruz. So we ran the race, hurried home, cleaned up, packed up the truck, and took off to SC. It was only 8 weeks after Spencer was born, so I ran very, very, VERY slowly, but I ran the whole thing!!
Travis ran it after not training at all (per his usual style) and still beat me in my MANY minutes :)
This year was the first year Adaline was able to participate in the kids fun run and even though it was really windy, she seemed to enjoy it!
(Cousin Trace in the red hat, telling her how it was going to work)
Yay! Our first medal!
(Anyone want to guess what the kid in the background is doing?!)
Can't wait for next year- it's my goal to run the 5-mile course again :)
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