Morning run

We bought elena her first pair of 'official sneakers' a two weekends ago. In addition to making her look about 2 years older, she had decided to take up the family habit of a morning run. Once or twice a week she will motivate to get out of bed quickly, get dressed, and be waiting by the door to run a cool down with whom ever had the morning run that day. We go to the end of the street and back, she's quite excited about it.

Here is a picture of her first morning run.





And we've found a really great place to run. Sunday morning Jake motivated the whole family to head out to a local park we'd seen a sign for. Turns out it was an old farm that they mow 'paths' through the fields. Elena and I hiked while Jake ran, then we switched. It was really nice, reminded me of my old cross country days (except I'm much slower now). And in an exciting turn of events we found a trail that hooks up closer to our house and connects to a playground. So when we work up to longer long runs, one of us can hang out at the playground with elena.