Racing!

 Kris, Kevin (BIL) and I ran in the Cincinnati Flying Pig Half Marathon this past weekend.  While that is news in itself, it prompted Kevin and Kris to take the three older kids (mine and Katie, my niece) downtown on Saturday for the packet pickup/signup.  While they were there, they signed the kids up to run in the Piglet races!

They divide the kids up by age, so Emma and Katie ran in the 4-5 year old race, while Ryan ran in the 6-7 age one.  All three were extremely excited for the race.  So excited for their t-shirts and numbers.  And as you can see - posing with the flying pig!  Katie was determined to win!  They were even stretching before hand.  Too cute!

But in the end... Katie was the first girl to win her race, she was beat out by 2 boys.  Emma on the other hand...she stopped half way to figure out where Katie was (way ahead of her) and ended up in last place!  Ryan missed the GO and was the last off the line.  Since he was in last, he decided to ham it up and spin circles on the way to the finish line!

In the end, the most important part was that they all had fun!

As for us adults.  Kris and Kevin enjoyed their first half marathon.  Kris finished in 2 hours and 10 minutes.  I hurt my knee at some point between mile 5 and 6 trying to move around the numerous other runners no doubt!  I was pacing at a 10 minute pace up until then but had to slow down or I would have had to quit!  The 2-3 mile down hill run was a killer for the knee.  In the end I ended at 2 hours and 20 minutes losing out to my previous time by 3 minutes, but beating Kevin by 45 seconds!