Paint The Run!

Anyone who knows me well, KNOWS I don't run.  So... it is clear who my children may tend to take after, considering they both were interested in participating in the local kids' event titled, "Paint The Run"  this past weekend.   This event is put on by Bass Pro and KY3's Care to Learn program, and it's clearly just for fun with the absence of ankle timing chips and any real competition/prizes.  Kids just laugh and run.  And their parents can try to keep up with them, if they so choose.

Jack heard about this race and immediately wanted to run.  He was excited about getting blasted with powdered paint as he ran--- just like he'd seen in the local "Color Run" that has become extremely popular around here.  If you are unfamiliar with this event... basically it goes like this...  you run by and volunteers throw cups full of powdery paint at your head, arms, torso, legs, etc. as you whiz by.  Think back to your preschool days when this sort of thing was a no-no in a gleeful, bad behavior sort of way.  There.  You've got it.

Anyway, Jack's goal was to collect as much color on his body as was humanly possible.  Emma wanted to run too... but she wanted to win.  The paint was fun but also totally secondary for her.  I think she may have more of a competitive streak than Jack.  She gave plenty of peers the "stink eye" as she lined up with her toe on the starting line.  Nearby onlookers may have pointed at her and made comments like, "SHE sure has her game face on!"  or "Look at THAT little girl.  She means business."  Laughing... 

I was "drafted" to run with Emma.  I was initially petrified because... I'll restate... I don't run.  And Emmawas announcing that she was going to win.  I sort of believed her in a worried, "I-have-to-keep-up" sort of way.  I had plenty to dread until Jim told me that it was only a quarter mile that she was running.  (Jack did a mile and was big enough to go by himself in his own race.)  Okay.  A quarter mile.  I can do that.  And so we did.  Colorful running like the wind.

Cue the Disney melody that came into your mind just now.  And if it didn't?  It should have.

 Congrats on a good run, kids!