Zach's Last Stride Race
The plan was for Papa to run with his best buddy for the Stride race again this year. Unfortunately Papa fell on a recent run. He was OK but a bit scraped up and asked if I could run with Z instead. So I became Bob and wore his shirt and Bib and laced up my shoes. Jeff drove us and it was so much fun running with the Goose. I didn't let him go too fast out of the gate mostly because I couldn't keep up with him. He had a friend who ran with us too. We were in the first wave which was nice. I couldn't believe how well he did! He walked a little at the second mile and I think he appreciated that I had a watch so could tell him exactly how much further there was to go. He started to get tired and wanted to walk again at 3 miles but I said, "No way! You have only a tenth to go! Dig deep!" and that's exactly what he did. Once he saw how close he was, he put it in gear and finished strong beating his old mama! He averaged 9:13 minute miles WITH walking! ...