Monday, March 30, 2015

Owen's first jog-a-thon

Owen participated in the school jog-a-thon in February.  He did 19 mini laps in 30 minutes.  Good job Owen!  


Nathan also ran later in the day, but unfortunately I didn't get to see him because Jared was sick that day.  Alex stayed home with the kids during Owen's running, but then had to go to work.  Nathan ran 31 laps - the second highest in the 5th grade, with the winner running 32.  Poor Jared was really looking forward to running, but woke up sick to his stomach.  

Jared and Nathan have both been doing a "marathon mile" running club at school during lunchtime.  The idea is to run 1 mile on Wednesday and Thursdays during lunch until they all finally do the 26th mile at the high school track.  I think it's designed where they can complete the "marathon" by doing 2 miles per week for 13 weeks.  They can do more though if they want to (but everyone will run one mile together at the completion.)  Jared has really gone the extra mile, literally... :)   He has been doing sometimes 3 miles each time.  He has completed 6.5 cards, with each card representing 5 miles.  So Jared has already done 32.5 miles, and I think there's about 7 weeks left.  Jared completes more like 5 miles per week.  

I have been proud of all of them.  Nathan, Jared, and Owen are still getting up in the morning 2-3 times a week on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday to run 1 to 1.5 miles.  They were complaining about it for a while, but lately have been less resistant.  There were a couple of mornings recently where Nathan took off and I couldn't ever catch up to him.  He's getting fast!

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