Tails and Trails 2011

Kayleigh has been talking again lately about running another race. Erik decided he wanted to do the Tails and Trails race this year. It supports the local animal shelter, so it's for a good cause. You may remember that Tails and Trails was Kayleigh's "first" race that she ran last year. Go HERE for a refresher. She did a great job running. We said again, "You can run or you can walk, but you cannot stop." She would jog a little, sprint some, walk and skip. She took almost 9 minutes to get to the half way point (it was a 1 mile race), and finished in 17:27, not bad for not training! It was just 7 seconds off of her personal record. Hopefully this was enough to keep her satisfied for awhile, because it's getting too hot to run any more races until the fall.
The post-race event is fun. They bring dogs out from the shelter, and they all love attention. We got lots of treats for ourselves--including Snow Cones, cotton candy and popcorn--and PetSmart was there with tons of free samples, so I helped myself to quite the goody bag for our dogs.