Every year my kids’ elementary school sponsors a 5K fun run. All the students can participate for free. This year I was determined to start my racing career with this run, but my son’s baseball game schedule created a scheduling conflict. Most of the routes I take my runs on are along the path that the race is run. The start of the race and the start of his baseball game were 15 minutes apart, even though they were across the street from each other. So, I determined that I would just have to wait for another local race.
However, at the last minute, the baseball game was rescheduled for later in the day. This gave me the opportunity to run. My son also decided that he wanted to run, too, which made it difficult for me to run my own pace if would need to stay with him. We decided that he would ride his scooter along to keep up with me.
The start was interesting since we began on wet muddy grass before going onto the road, so I had Davis carry his scooter on the grass until we reached the pavement. This put us behind a bit, but we started to catch up. The other problem at the start was that I had to navigate both for him and for me through the different runners that were ahead of us. And, to make matters worse, the road still had traffic, so we had to be cautious about how far into the road we ran.