Emily's First Race

Today I ran with Emily on the Herndon Festival 5k - Emily's first race!!
It was very exciting.
Emily kept up a good pace under 10 minutes through Mile 1. After that she had to add some walking to her running, and the pace slacked up a bit.

She saw several of her friends running in the race, which surprised her - people she didn't think ran. And people on the sidelines from school were cheering her on as well. I told her "well, now your friends have seen you, I guess you are a runner."

For a part of the way I had her hand and helped pull her along.

She finished strong once the end was in sight.
Overall finish was 35:23, once second faster than me with 35:24.
I am very proud of her, she did a nice job.