TJ's brother in law , Gordon, asked TJ to do a mini TRI with him in Layton. TJ was pretty excited to do it. He didn't really train or anything for it. It was kind of last min (he did do a trial run the week before to see what it would be like). He stayed the night of at Jamie's house and I drove up the next morning. He did so good and even came in 2nd in his age group. I'm glad that he got his feet wet and is now excited to do more and that he really liked it. As I was watching it I couldn't stop thinking about how much fun a TRI would be! I guess I need to hit up those adult swimming classes with my friend Becky so I don't drown first. I had to wake up and get the kids ready and out the door by 6am to drive to Layton and it was so hard to run from event to event and try and catch TJ with Lexi and a stroller and Kasen who wanted to eat, in the rain! Next time I might leave the kids at home. Props to TJ who brings them to my races, over and over again. It is NOT easy. Next year Tallie says she wants to try the kids TRI. It makes me happy when I hear my kids say they want to try and do things like this. I will never be the parent who pushes my kids to do things they really don't want to do. I once saw a mom run with her 6 year old holding her hand coming up on the finish line and the mom was practically dragging the girl whose feet could not keep up and kept stumbling and she had tears rolling down her face crying to stop and that she was tired. The mom not listening and just wanting the glory still pushing along. Ya I bet that was a fun race for that little girl, I bet it fueled her fire for future races because she developed such a love for running. Good quality time with mom and a great memory she will always keep with her.
I WILL never be that kind of mom.
I'm super proud of TJ and I hope he found a new love!
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