Another Race

Savannah and Lila are starting to become serious runners.  More so Savannah but because Lila wants to be her bigger sister (I mean this in every aspect you can think of) Lila is right on her heels.  At the end of May, the girls ran a quarter mile qualifying run in order to get a chance to run in a high school invitational.  Both girls qualified and were back the next week to run with the big kids.  This invitational had an open mile too so Daddy took the bait.  Off we went for another night at the races.

Savannah and Lila had worked hard over the last week to improve their quarter mile times.  They both did!  Savannah beat a girl that had originally beat her by quite a bit the week before.  Lila was the youngest runner and got a lot of cheers when coming down the track.

Daddy ran his mile too.  Let's just say he was put in the slow heat with a bunch of teens.  Yes, there is a difference between 14 and 40.  God bless him for going through with it when he knew what he was up against.  There he stood a foot taller, with clunky shoes (all the other runners had track shoes), a couple extra decades.  He came in with a great time.  It escapes me at the moment but I am pretty sure it was in the 5 minute range.

It was a great night for us.  Miss E hung like the best of them and my girls got to experience running in a real track meet.