Nate's First Race

Here's Nate at the John Deere 5K kids run in early October...

He had watched me run my 5k, and had found his new favorite thing for the day. "The Gun!" He absolutely loved the gun they fire at the start of the race. He kept asking, "will they shoot the gun for my race?" They did, and he was so excited he stood at the start line for a moment while all the other kids took off. It was hilarious - he ran the whole 1/4 mile race (I wasn't sure if he could do it all), bouncing along and swinging his arms. He would not let me run with him at all - at one point I stepped on the road and he stopped, put his hand out like a traffic cop, and informed me I was not to run with him. At the end I had to stop him and get him over to the line to get his medal - he would have kept running...