January 21, 2017

I ran five miles with Emma today!

Just before lunch, I convinced Emma to go on a three-mile run.  She was reluctant but decided to come with me.  She warned me that she might not be able to run that far.  I, however, wasn't worried. I knew she could do it.

As soon as we started running, Emma shot out like a racehorse ready to go.  I had to run my hardest to keep up with her, especially on the uphill section when we were running straight into the wind.  I stopped at the top of the hill to catch my breath, hoping I wouldn't have a heart attack!  At one point, two big dogs ran out to meet us.  We couldn't get them to turn back, and they were all too happy to go along with us.  I was so glad I wasn't alone.  When I was young, I was terrified of dogs.  I'm so happy that I'm not afraid anymore, but if I see a dog without its owner I get a teensy bit nervous.  Emma gave me confidence.  Since she was a little scared, I had to be the brave one.  These dogs were super friendly though and happy to be running in the wind.  Eventually the dogs got out ahead of us a little bit, so we doubled back and turned a corner, running pretty fast to get away.  We didn't see the dogs again.  So that solved that.

Another unusual thing that happened was that boys were waving at us. Or to be exact, boys were probably waving at Emma. Ha ha.

I could tell that Emma was doing just fine and even wanting to go faster.  So I picked up my pace as much as I could handle and stopped telling her how far we had run.  When we were almost back to the house, I told her we were going to run up to the corner of 2450 South and then back to our house. When she questioned me, thinking that surely we had run three miles by now, I told her we were almost at the five-mile mark.  She was flabbergasted.  She had no idea!

Emma--my awesome running partner!

As we turned onto our road, she sprinted out ahead of me and I found that I had a little bit of gas left in the tank too.  I sped up and made it to the driveway just as the voice in my earphones told me we had run five miles!  It felt so good and I was so very proud of us.  I don't think I could have done that as well without Emma.  I loved every minute running with her!  And she's super cute too!

Today has been such a happy day!