Family Outing

Yesterday was a beautiful day, and the whole family went for a run. Mrs. Agricola has been running and building up her endurance. We've been going solo for reasons of differing running-fitness-levels and child care stuff, but yesterday we went out together, all four of us. Child One and Child Two rode in the stroller carrying various animal buddies, snack sacks and drinks. They didn't fight or complain until the immediate end and it was a great time with one exception.

For some reason, my kids love to take a spin around the block when either leaving or returning to the neighborhood. So there we were, geared up, loaded up, ready to run . . . and the kids wanted to go around the "blocky," as Child Two calls it. Rather than disgruntle the passengers before departure we humored them. The entire neighborhood was out yesterday and there we were, pushing a laden jogging stroller, wearing our running garb and feeling really self conscious . . . it was a funny in an uncomfortable way. We felt like total dorks.

We endured and hit the road. Mrs. Agricola set the pace -- though running with me she pushed it a bit more than she normally would have -- and recorded a PR! It was a good workout on the 3.3 route that I frequently run and post about up here. It was great fun to have a running buddy, three actually!

Cape Cod Long Run
VTR's family and mine are getting together on the Cape this weekend for some socializing. VTR needs a long run for the CCM and I thought it might be fun to get some people together to help him run it and take on a team approach to his long run. Let me know if you're interested.