Limberlost: the boy's dream

So, The Limberlost Challenge was run today.
what a beautiful day for it.

before i tell you how the day actually went let me take you back and share with you a little history.

**written back in April**


The boy.

he has attended The Limberlost Challenge for 3 years.

cheered on his daddy in the 56km 3x

and cheered on his mommy in the 14km 2x.

He has cheered on his parents at Band on the Run multiple times.

half marathons, 10km races.

He has run the kids' 1km and the 5km race 2x.

He has cheered on his daddy at the North Face Endurance 50mile race.

he has run the kids' 1km at it.

He has run cross country at 3 school races.

he has run the 1500m race for his school track and field day.

he has spontaneously decided to run a trail when we went for a hike.

he has told us many times that running on trails is his favourite thing...

and what he loves about it is..

running on a trail.

so..

when The Limberlost Challenge finished last year he told us he wanted to run it in 2017.

what a cool dream.

sure, 

if he wanted to do it, 

his dad would work out a training schedule for him but not until the spring.

i don't know if i thought he would forget, 

or if i just didn't realize how serious he was.

but, all winter he talked about how he was going to run Limberlost.

i would run with him.

his dad had some health issues since last summer,

so running wasn't happening.
i had also slacked in my running,
so the current runner in the family was the boy,
who ran X-Country in the fall.

a training schedule was never made for him, 

but his dream lived on.

so..

March happened.

his dad was feeling better and sat down and figured out a run schedule.

since his dad hadn't run for a long time, and wasn't sure how far he could even run, 

they would train together.

around March Break they began. 

3 runs a week.

when his dad gets home from work, they head out for 2 of the runs.

the third one is on Saturdays.

and you know what...

seeing my boy's excitement, 

seeing his dad running with him,

i knew i had to begin training so i can keep up with my little Limberlost Runner.

so i am doing the same schedule as my boy currently...

I signed up for the 14km last week.

but,

 we hit a snag in the boy's dream.