Sunday, May 18, 2008

Race for the Cure

OK, it's been far too long since I wrote in my blog. The usual excuses apply-being department chair, being swamped, not blogging with a class. Mary G. and I ended up not blogging together as planned, but we did have some great conversations about the writing major in-person and about what she read, and she did just graduate. Congrats, Mary!

The real news around here is that Autumn ran the kids' 1 mile run for the Race for the Cure yesterday in Syracuse. 10,000 people showed up to the event, and there were hundreds in the kids' race. Autumn ran a 8 minute, 47 second mile! I know because I ran it with her and timed it. So at age six, she is already quite a runner. She told me this morning that she plans to eventually run the Badwater Ultramarathon in Death Valley. She has heard about this race from me since I told her about Pam Reed. Dianna and I ran the 5k with Autumn. I pushed Autumn in the jogger stroller for the entire 5k with the exception about 500 yards that she decided to run on her own. We had a good time, although it was hard for the first mile to have to dodge all the walkers walking five and six abreast having no idea there were "stroller runners" behind them. Now some purists will say that stroller runners should not be in races, but for some us, there's no choice but to run with a stroller if we want to do a race.

Anyway, summer race season has begun here.