Yesterday was the 39th Cleveland Spring Classic in Strongsville. Last year all four of us participated and came home with t-shirts and trophies. This year Abby was the only one to represent and she did us proud!I had put off registering since April is to be a crazy month, but early in the week Abby asked when the race was and indicated that she would really like to go again this year. I signed her up that night.
I even made the drive to Strongsville on Friday to pick up her packet to ensure that she would get a small t-shirt. In the past we have had notoriously bad luck with races running out of small size shirts. She is tiny and an adult medium would never make it. She said to me later in the day, "Where do people who don't run get their t-shirts?" We decided the answer to that is vacations and bat miztvahs.
Saturday morning we saw Jerry off on a rather long training run and then we headed west. It was a nice cool morning with a very fine drizzle in the air. Gina even dragged herself out of bed to watch Abby run. This race has free registration for kids under 14 so there were about 4 or 5 buses from Cleveland schools. There were 27 girls in Abby's 1-14 age group but she held them off and crossed the line in 24.36 and was handed a nice 1st place trophy for her shelf. Her goal going in was to break 25 minutes for the first time so this is her new PR.From there it was on to Starbucks for mocha and a well-deserved blueberry scone. It was a great day for her - no puking, gagging or other stomach malfunctions. We hope to do lots of racing this summer and she has definitely inspired me to try and go a little faster now! She will have to drop a full 2 minutes to reach my 5K PR, but I am pretty confident that will eventually happen. Sniff....
Today Gina participated in the Swim for Diabetes. She was not feeling well but somehow managed to swim 200 laps (5000 yards)! Another great week of family fitness!
