Capitol City River Run

Cindy's nearly finished the 2009 Playmakers Race Series. She's run 9 of the 11 races thus far. The last race in the series is this weekend, and after that she'll have run 10 of the 12 races. Her prize for finishing 10 of 12 in the series will be a loaf of bread each month for a year from Great Harvest Bread. Most have been 5k races, but there was an 8k two weeks ago, and she ran the half-marathon (that's 21k) at the Capitol City River Run last weekend. The kids and I are very proud of her stick-to-it-iveness.

The Capitol City Run takes place in downtown Lansing and much of the course follows the paved trails and boardwalks of the Lansing River Trail. It's a nice course (maybe next year I'll try it).

Here's the start. Those Playmakers Team boys always win.



The race included sort of a carnival at the finish, with plenty of food. And a dinosaur. It was lots of fun.



Like many of these events, there was a kids run. Can you find Q&A? Quinn crashed on the race course while running down a hill, so he and Abbey finished nearly last. He had a big scrape on his knee and one on his hip, and was missing some skin on one hand. We got to visit the first aid tent for repairs.



There was an inflatable tiki for climbing. Abbey made it to the top because I said I'd pay her five dollars if she could do it. She needs some real incentive sometimes.



The kids run and the climbing all happened while Cindy was running. She finished in 2 hrs and 21 minutes. That's just 3 minutes longer than her run in Detroit last year, and was really quite good considering that her training has been much less intense this year. She spent the last few miles of the run chatting the woman on her left in this picture. Can you see the blister on Cindy's foot?