The kids are going to be running in their first road race this Saturday in the Spinx Marathon downtown. They'll be running a 1.2 mile race with a finish line right on home plate in Fluor Field. They haven't had to do a whole lot of begging to get their favorite trainer out on the track. Their favorite place for a good workout is at Furman. Last Saturday I was able to go and document their progress.

Everyone knows you have to start with a good warm up.

Here they are, coming in from their first lap around the track. Looks like Sam jumped out in front!

Trav wasn't about to let that happen again!

Two laps wore them out! Too bad the race is twice that long...They got a good lesson from their coach about the importance of pacing.

Caroline just might fall over dead at the end of this race.

When we got them all registered we saw that the boys have quite a bit of competition in their gender/age brackets, but Caroline, however, was only competing against one other racer as of last weekend. They're all pretty pumped, have their race day clothes all picked out and have requested pasta for dinner on Friday night. Gotta carbo load!