First 5K

Emily and her CFC soccer team ran a 5K together on Super Bowl Sunday.  The girls raised money for refugee families in the New Haven area and it was a great bonding experience.  They were not supposed to actually run - they were supposed to walk it together.  But when the gun went off, they got caught up in the crowd and just started running. So Emily, with no training - and being absolutely furious at me because she thought I tricked her about the running - completed her first 5K in just over 30 minutes.  It was an out and back course, and Emily spent a lot of time yelling at me and trying not to cry, so I think that she could have run a lot faster.  But now she has a 5K under her belt - which is shorter than any race she will run for cross country next fall!  More importantly, she raised more than $250 and her team raised more than $2,000!

Kid and parent runners. 

Rylan and Emily 

The start.