Bolder Boulder

Gavin and I (Brent) were the only ones who wanted to do the Bolder Boulder this year from our crew.  We had planned to try to run about an hour for one of Gavin's first real attempts at racing it.  He had done it several times before, but I would say it was more of a walking/jogging effort for many of the years.  As an extra bonus, my dad flew in to join us for the race.  He finally is slowing down a bit, some from age and some from having a slight pause in his normal training, so he decided to run with us too.  He originally was registered for the BA wave but delayed his start until our FA wave.  

This made for a fun time for the three us of to run together.  Hard to imagine three generations all clipping along at a good pace.  As mentioned earlier, Gavin was targeting my 4th grade record of 58 minutes and we smashed that by a few minutes (I didn't have the heart to tell him I ran my 58 minutes in 4th grade when I was only 9 years old and not 10 years old like him!).  In any case, we finished in 56:37 which was really awesome for him.  He ran the whole way and really only slowed a bit after mile five when the cotton candy, marshmallows, and Doritos must have all been wearing off from his earlier mid-racing fuel choices.  Kidding aside, I was so proud of his effort and he definitely has the distance genes in his blood.  Unfortunately, we didn't get to celebrate the run too much as we had to zoom on out of the race for a Championship soccer game he had to play in about three hours later in the day!