Race day

This year Dominic wanted to run the Turkey Trot with my dad and I. So I signed him up for the 1mile fun run. He started off too quickly so didn't do as well as Sunday, but he was still quick. So I was very thankful for my dad being there to run with him again.

I love his enthusiasm. If little dude would actually practice he could probably do even better.

 Coming in to the finish line.

 Every participant received an award. Dominic was less than pleased with this concept.

"You mean even the last place person got one. That's not good."

 

 My dad did really great this year and won first place in his age division. Unfortunately for him, he received a turkey along with his award. Probably the only vegan in the room and he wins a turkey. =)

So Jon gave it to his instructor at the Y. The guy seemed really appreciative.

I'll be posting my race info on my other blog when I get the chance. 

It's too beautiful of a day to spend it on the computer.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The race before the race.

On Sunday we headed to Nashville to do a little shopping and running. We met my dad so Dominic and I could run a race with him.

It was a race that was promoting healthy families so there were some kids activities.

The fun run was .75 miles and started 15 minutes before the 5k. But the finish line for the kids race was a bit from the start of the 5k. So I asked my dad to run with Dominic since I wasn't sure if I could run that much or that quickly. In the previous races Dominic has run at my pace. Turns out he can run under a 9 min mile. He ran that race in 6:42. 

Jon had to hurry as well to get the kids down close to the start to get pictures. 

There were over 8000 people running that race so the first several shots had people blocking his view.

This is the only one of me starting off that you can actually see me.

I'm in the purple shirt.

 A bit blurry, but it's my dad crossing the finish line.

 And me already across and trying to find some water. It was a bit warmer than I'd expected.

 Walking back to our car.

It was lots of fun.

Color Run II

Dominic was so excited about this race that he could barely sleep. Between the kids excitement, the midnight motorcycle race on the streets below, and the alarms that went off at the wrong times we were pretty tired when we woke up.

Poor Dominic! We forgot his shirt (he had to wear Daddy's), his shoes (he wore crocks), and his shorts (he wore the ones from Saturday). But this didn't dim his enthusiasm.

After a quick breakfast Dominic was wearing the color chocolate pre-race style.

We walked down to the water front and joined the throng of people waiting to run.

Our friends Pavielle and Evan who joined us.

Pre-race photo

The Color Run is for everyone!

The ladies (and several men-no they weren't gay) in tutus

 The guy with the broken leg

 And Moms with their little kids. 

Dominic was not the youngest by far. 

The youngest I saw was younger than 1 year old.

 Everyone was so nice. I didn't feel crowded or afraid of losing Dominic the entire time. Quite a few people offered to take pictures.

 We were supposed to hold our color packets until the end, but I noticed quite a few going off before.

 After our first station. Dominic was ecstatic.

Since Dominic was wearing his crocs and had never run more than a mile we decided to take it easy. We stopped for a picture after every color station and ran or walked as we felt like it. I have no idea what our time was, but we had fun!

 

After one of the stations.

 Dominic forgot to close his mouth at the last station. =)

 We were supposed to toss the color into the air. But Dominic didn't think he had enough on his shirt. So I poured mine on top of him.

 This meant that he was now covered in blue powder. It's been three days and I still can't get it off his scalp.

 

Every time we came across a "puddle" of powder Dominic would roll in it. This happened the entire race and afterwards.

 Post race photo

 My hands from the powder I picked up to throw at Dominic at the blue station.

 

 It was without a doubt the funnest race I've ever run!

 Dominic doing a funny dance. Little man had as much fun, or more than I did.

We walked the approx. mile back to the hotel. 

The kids wanted a picture with this horse.

Dominic was dead tired!