No, that's not the sequel to "Dances With Wolves." Instead, it describes how Sarah has spent the spring being part of the cross-country program after school. She has been working very hard all spring, twice a week for an hour after school, training for the New Balance Girls-On-The-Run 5K race, which was this past weekend.
Sarah did phenomenally. She asked her fat lazy old man to be her Running Buddy, and she set the pace for how we would run. In the downpour at George Mason University yesterday morning, she led us out onto the course and never once stopped. We passed people who were walking, we passed people who were jogging, we kept right on going up three different hills (amazing how we never seemed to go *down* any hills) to the finish line, where Sarah kicked in the afterburners and sprinted across the finish line.
She wound up finishing 968th out of 2,643 total runners, all girls in elementary schools around Northern Virginia. She finished a 5K race in 35:50, or an average pace of 11 minutes 32 seconds per mile...not shabby at all for her first time doing a road race! She finished in the top 37% of all girls running that day, and quite honestly, was probably one of the first Silverbrook girls to finish; we know several others were eating her dust all morning.
We're so proud of Sarah! Click on our Spring 2010 photo album to see sights from her Brownies activities this spring, as well as a couple of pictures from the race.
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