Legoland Kids Marathon Mile

Hellllllooooo to all these new beautiful faces I see!, SO happy y'all are here!!!

Saturday was a fun filled day for the V Family! I signed my kids up to run the Legoland Marathon Mile this weekend and it was a blast! The day started at 6:00am like any normal race day of course. It has been raining for 3 days now in Southern California and it didn't let up any! not even for thousands of tiny feet ready to run their marathon mile!

My kids were troopers I am so proud them! Especially of the littlest V! 3 years old, and I'm pretty sure this mile was like running my 13.1 in 3 year old feet! My husband ran up with the 2 older ones who finished no problems. I stayed back and ran with the 3 year old! Really I just had to walk a little fast but his little feet were running the whole time!

I felt like I was coaching him through a real half marathon! He started off strong running with smiles and excited as we crossed the start line and headed into Legoland. Then he started to complain that his feet hurt, (hmmmm sounds familiar) I told him he was doing great and we were half way done. Then he started complaining that his legs hurt (hmmmm sounds familiar) I told him I was so proud of him and if he wanted to we could take a break, but he said no and kept running. (I think he has some of his momma in him after all! No quitters allowed) He was pretty much crying by the end until we turned the corner and he saw the finish line! Then he just took off..... He crossed the finish line like a champ, and I am pretty sure I just re-caped my half marathon in a nut shell ha!

I am so proud of my kids, and happy that they finally got to experience the other end of the races that they always get to see mommy do. My 3 year old especially always asks me after a race, "mommy why did you run? why were you running?" He doesn't understand why I'm just running even though nothing is chasing me! Hopefully this will help him understand it a little more! After he received his medal he was pretty proud! So I think he has a little understanding of the accomplishment you feel after finishing a goal!
I hope one day they have a passion for this sport as much as I do! Any sport would be great but running is a pretty awesome one :)

 

One more confession! Saturday is my cheat day and I try not to go too overboard. So I picked fresh fried apples from Legoland. Definitely worth it, I couldn't resist when I saw all that whipped cream and smelled the cinnamon and sugar yuuummmmmmm sugar............

 

 

My foot seems to be feeling a lot better lately and I even walked 2 miles on the treadmill Friday while watching Toddlers and Tiaras! Something about watching that show makes me want to work on my MILF status a little harder ha!

 

 

I iced it after and it seems like it's not getting any worse after Friday's miles and yesterday's theme park miles walking all day! soooooooo I think that means the road to recovery is getting closer to the finish line YAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!!

I truly hope ya'll had a FITtastic weekend!!!! XOXOXO