5K Training for my Boys

My boys are gearing up for a 5K shortly! I took them out this weekend for some longer runs.

Charlie REALLY WANTED to run a 5K on the track, so we hit the Macalester track for 12.5 laps. He thought that would be fun. For some reason...

One lap in!


I've never noticed it's such a "wide" track, with the 100 meter mark being still
well on the curve! It can fit a soccer field in the middle and not just a football field.


In a pretty bad place with 2 laps left...


... but then happy to be done after 12.5 laps!


Crashed on the high jump mats.

He started faster with his first 3 laps being under 3:00 (his first one was 2:23), and then many were over 3:00, around 3:15. He only walked ONCE with 2 laps left, and that made his lap be 3:43. (I wasn't giving him times, and I was just doing it to help keep track of counting the laps.) In the end, he finished 39:47, and his 5K goal is sub-40, so he's there!

Then later, I took Henry out. I only snapped one picture of him as I biked with him:

Down along River Road.

He kept changing his mind with regards to how far he wanted to go: it started out as 2-3 miles, then was a 5K, then was 5 miles, and then finally he settled on going about 4 miles. He was running half-mile splits of 4-4:30, and then walked up a big hill with a 5:00 half-mile split. He covered 4 miles in about 36:30.

Ready for a 5K shortly!!