#BolderBoulder
Every Memorial Day for the past some odd years my husband and I have done the BolderBoulder 10K run and we let the kids decide if they want to come with. Running is not their favorite thing in the world so we let it be their decision. This year, they did not want to come with us.
But, it has become a Memorial Day tradition for us, either way. It is “the greatest 10k”. And we don’t disagree. 50,000 plus people do it every year. There are waves starting at 7:00 in the morning going until almost 11:00 in the morning. Usually, we do the Military wave. We are a Military family and since the kids started doing it with us, that way we knew we weren’t hindering anybody else from running because it was such a late wave.
This year, the kids did not want to do it (we’ll have them do a 5k or two later in the year), so we decided we would go with an earlier wave where we could actually run as well as have fun. It’s funny because when we go in the later waves, almost everyone is dressed up to an extent in some kind of American gear or just to be funny or whatever. This year, in the earlier waves, I felt like the only one! I suppose it made me stand out more; I was actually able to run through all the people who signed up for an earlier wave just because they could (not because they should) and show off my American pride on this Memorial Day.
I’m proud to be an American. I am a vet as well, though I do not often talk about my time in service because of how it went for me but I am also the wife of a Soldier now and am proud that my husband has done everything he has. I was as American as they come for this run, head to toe and this year, I was one of the few because of how early our wave was. But, that did make it a more enjoyable run. I actually got to run a little bit. I won’t say my time exactly, because I am not fully proud of that ( I was a smidge slow, I enjoyed the day and haven’t taken the time to do 6 miles in a while), but I ran it and I enjoyed it and I love our traditions.
We are a family that makes our own traditions, some stick and some don’t but we always try to do something as a family that we can do over and over again. Neither of us had many iron clad traditions growing up so we try to make our own up as we go. The #BolderBoulder has become one of them. The kids may not always do it with us, but they always support it and always get something out of it that they are proud of. Long live the #BolderBoulder.
Every Memorial Day for the past some odd years my husband and I have done the BolderBoulder 10K run and we let the kids decide if they want to come with. Running is not their favorite thing in the world so we let it be their decision. This year, they did not want to come with us.
But, it has become a Memorial Day tradition for us, either way. It is “the greatest 10k”. And we don’t disagree. 50,000 plus people do it every year. There are waves starting at 7:00 in the morning going until almost 11:00 in the morning. Usually, we do the Military wave. We are a Military family and since the kids started doing it with us, that way we knew we weren’t hindering anybody else from running because it was such a late wave.
This year, the kids did not want to do it (we’ll have them do a 5k or two later in the year), so we decided we would go with an earlier wave where we could actually run as well as have fun. It’s funny because when we go in the later waves, almost everyone is dressed up to an extent in some kind of American gear or just to be funny or whatever. This year, in the earlier waves, I felt like the only one! I suppose it made me stand out more; I was actually able to run through all the people who signed up for an earlier wave just because they could (not because they should) and show off my American pride on this Memorial Day.
I’m proud to be an American. I am a vet as well, though I do not often talk about my time in service because of how it went for me but I am also the wife of a Soldier now and am proud that my husband has done everything he has. I was as American as they come for this run, head to toe and this year, I was one of the few because of how early our wave was. But, that did make it a more enjoyable run. I actually got to run a little bit. I won’t say my time exactly, because I am not fully proud of that ( I was a smidge slow, I enjoyed the day and haven’t taken the time to do 6 miles in a while), but I ran it and I enjoyed it and I love our traditions.
We are a family that makes our own traditions, some stick and some don’t but we always try to do something as a family that we can do over and over again. Neither of us had many iron clad traditions growing up so we try to make our own up as we go. The #BolderBoulder has become one of them. The kids may not always do it with us, but they always support it and always get something out of it that they are proud of. Long live the #BolderBoulder.