Each year, there's a 50 mile and 100 mile running race put on by the running club that we belong to. Yep, you read correctly -- 50 mile and 100 mile race. This race starts and ends in the little town of Cassoday. To get these miles in, the runners run in the beautiful Flint Hills of Kansas.
This year, this race was last Saturday and Sunday, October 11 and 12.
Periodically, throughout this race, there are "aid stations." These aid stations are for getting beverages and food, changing clothes or shoes, etc. You can also use the "Porta-Potty" at these stations if you don't just use "Nature's Porta-Potty" before getting to an aid station :)
Marc and I have worked the aid station at mile 33 (for 50 milers) and mile 83 (for 100 milers) for quite a few years. Several years ago, my mom started joining us at this aid station. The real "fun" part of this aid station is that we're out there for 24 hours straight.
Well, this year, because we didn't really want to have Luke out there for 24 hours (wouldn't that have been a fun time?), I didn't work the aid station. Marc and my mom (as well as some other wonderful volunteers) still did work the aid station. Luke and I drove out there in the afternoon.
We're sad to say that, for Luke's first time out there, it really wasn't his "thing."
I managed to catch this one good photo, sitting on Marc, in the back of my mom's "Escape."
After that, he decided that he didn't like the wind, and he missed the comforts of home. After a few hours out there (and Luke crying even when my mom and dad held him), I decided to head home.
It was amazing -- as soon as he was in his car seat, in the car, he stopped crying. He slept the whole way home, the rest of the evening, and for the whole night.
Since he wasn't sick, we're assuming he just tired himself out so much with all of the crying in the Flint Hills. Perhaps, next year, when he'll be running around, he'll appreciate this race a little bit more.
He better get used to it. In the Friesen household, there are frequent trips to races.
1 comment:
Thanks for another good post on the race.
Positive mention of the Flint Hills always gets my attention! Thanks!
So happy it brought me to your site. Hope you and your readers visit regularly.
Our 22 county Flint Hills Tourism Coalition, Inc. promotes visits to the Kansas Flint Hills – the website is: http://www.kansasflinthills.travel/
Best wishes!
Dr. Bill ;-)
Personal Blog: http://flinthillsofkansas.blogspot.com/
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