We started out 20 minutes late as usual, and then got stuck in completely stopped traffic at the exit ramp, so I think we spent about half an hour before we finally got to the parking lot.
And during that time, it was becoming apparent that I should have stopped on the way up to pee. I was really in pain. Like more than I could recall.
But sister Sarah took my license and got my packet while we were parking, we got the girls ready and headed over to the start area/portapotties.
UNFORTUNATELY... The lines were about 10-15 people long... And wife Sara was not nearby and Kenzie did not want to go to sister or get down, she was in her usual "there's a lot of new people around and I want to stay clung to Daddy for a while" mode. Which wasn't helping. So after about 5 minutes in line I was literally contemplating if I was going to pee my shorts and what other possible options there were...(If only I had known there was another set of portapotties not far away at the finish line...). I was thinking of asking if I could go ahead of others in line, but really didn't want to... So sister asks "are you gonna make it?" and I say "I'm really not sure" and she says "just ask if you can go ahead?" And I give in. Thankfully everyone in line seemed to be ok with that. And I just took Kenzie with me which I probably would not have otherwise tried. Thankfully these portapotties were a bit larger and cleaner than usual, so i just set her in there in the corner and said "Don't touch ANYTHING!" She seemed to abide, though also seemed to start hopping after a short bit.
Anyway, this was the only big downside to the day as I don't EVER remember having this much pain/trouble!
So, after more wandering around, trying to figure out just what we were doing, etc. We finally got in just about the last wave heading out.
I really wasn't sure how this run was going to go with Kenzie. Miss 2 year old has a lot of different emotions/actions right now. We've never tried anything like this. I was envisioning everything between some decent running beside me to some decent jogging while carrying her, to being stopped with a screaming girl, to carrying and trying to run as fast as I can to get to the end while she's screaming at me...
Well...
It went WAY beyond ANY of my expectations... Sister, BIL and I mostly walked, but Kenzie mostly ran and while she did want to run up and down the curbs along the streets and hit the puddles, she mostly kept going where she should. And she was happy. And I saw no one else get more attention and compliments than she did! And she enjoyed the water stop, acting all adult drinking while walking.
And I wasn't sure if she'd think the color stations were "dirty"(we've been getting a lot of "yucky, wash off" sort of comments lately with her shared milk straw, etc). But nope, she seemed to love it and was even thinking they didn't put enough color on her, as it was like a half inch deep with powder on the ground and she'd get through and scoop up more and pat it on her shirt herself!
Just SO awesome. Nothing better than sharing it with her! In the end, I think she did about 2.5 miles herself and I think it was actually shoe pain that stopped her then. She just kinda slowed/stopped and I thought must be she was finally tired, but then after I carried her just a bit, she'd want to get down, but after a couple steps she'd lift one foot like it was hurting or something. So I carried her like the last half mile, but once we got to the finish line, she was barefoot and she was running all over the place for like 20 minutes after we met up with wife and my cousin and her son.
omg how cute was that little video!
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