Another year, another GAR

So it was the Great Aloha Run time of the year again.  Something was different this year though… We took our kids!  We knew it would take a lot of energy what with getting our kids up at 4 am and running 8 miles and all, so we started them off with a good breakfast.  

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Yeah, they didn’t eat it.  We got up earlier than we needed to so we could make Seporah’s favorite meal, eggs and bacon.  But when we got there, the well intentioned GAR volunteers gave us little kiddy packs with cookies and chips and crackers and such, and as soon as the kids saw that, they wouldn’t touch the eggs and bacon and oranges.

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Yeah, the cannon went off, and we didn’t move.  Just like every year.  Strollers to the back of the line!  Children are second class citizens!  I think I have found my next calling, I am going to start rallys for children’s rights in marathons!  Anyway, we had plenty of time at the starting line for pictures.  

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Seporah actually probably ran 1.5 of the first 4 miles… a quarter mile at a time of course.  She alternated between WALK WALK WALK WALK WALK (which meant she wanted to run with us) and SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT.  Back and forth.  The last 4 miles she just sat in the stroller and pouted though.  We brought along the little laptop and she watched Backyardigans for the last 2 miles.  

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Märia and I pretty much carried Felicity the whole time.  

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The girls totally passed out afterwards.  They were done.

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Of course by the time we got home Seporah was up from her nap.  Mommy and Daddy need sleep?  Of course not… They are Mommy and Daddy!  Here we are wearing our finisher shirts.  I actually lost my shirt tag while carrying a child… it came attached to our running numbers and you were supposed to rip it off at the end, but it ripped off in the middle… But a nice GAR volunteer gave me a shirt anyways.  

Wish us luck… Märia just invited us over to spend the week of the San Diego Rock N’ Roll Marathon with Sarah and Jason.  So yeah, from 8.14 to 26.2 in 4 months… We will see how that goes.  =)

February 25, 2009   Posted in: Pictures, Steven's Lalala