Sophi and I ran in the 10K this year for Wichita River Festival. This was Sophi's first 10K and she was nervous and since I just dislike running, I was really nervous. We both agreed that we would walk if we needed to, but that our goal was to finish in under an hour. Last year, I ran the Boulder Boulder with Stacie and DA and my time was 1hr and 8 min. I have been running more since then, so I hoped to improve my time.
The weather this year was great, a little cool but the sun kept peaking out! We ran with a friend, Kate Gonda too. The horn blew and nothing happened, there were so many people there, it literally took us about 2 min. just to walk through the start line. Once we got going, we weaved in and out of people and started at a pretty fast pace. We lost Kate somewhere in the start. About mile 2, my head ached, and I was getting ready to start to walk. I told Sophi to go ahead without me, but she kept slowing down to stay with me and keep me running. At about mile 4, Kate came running by us, but we were still running...At mile 5, Sophi encouraged me to keep running and pick up the pace a little. I was listening to Jaxson's MP3 which was slow Jo Bro's songs. So, with about 400 yards left, Sophi swiches songs with me and had me listen to some pumpin music and then we sprinted the last 100 yards! I was dead tired, but we finished in 58 minutes and 45 seconds!!!
I am so grateful for Sophie, she was such a great coach to keep me going and help me finish the race and make my goal!
She is amazing, she felt so great after that she went on to run the 2 miler with Grace and her friend Stephanie Gonda. The finished in 21 minutes. Jaxson and his friend Brian Gonda finished in 17 minutes!! They are awesome little runners!! I'm so proud of them all! Derek says he is working on P90X right now and afraid to hurt himself in the race and put off his workouts..but wait until next year baby!!!
