Bushtukah Canada Day road race

Happy birthday Canada!
 Today I completed my frist 10km race since I was pregnant with Simon and the boys all completed their first running races. The start was a small sea of red thanks to Bushtukah's red tech shirts. The race felt long and grueling. I didn't feel overly energetic when I woke-up, so I knew I would have to work mentally to get my legs moving. With that being said, I finished in 50:13. Correction! My chip time was 49:55.9! (13/66 age/gender group, 50th female) This makes me feel much better! I have a lot of room for improvement in the fall.
The real highlight of my day was watching Toby and Simon in the Tot trot and Ethan in the kids 1km kids run! Toby came first and Simon came in third. Ethan worked his little legs off and finished his run in 6:19. In the middle of the run, he saw me at the sidelines and said "Mommy, I don't like this". He kept on plugging away. I think I should tell him that no one likes the pain you feel during the race, it's finishing it and the sense of accomplishment that you get from that achievement alone that makes it worth while.
After the races, we came home for a while and then went to Kanata for the Canada Day celebrations. We spoke to a number of firefighters and the kids went into a trailor that simulated a real fire at home. The kids crawled out of the trailor and went to the meeting place as they were told. An hour later there was huge black smoke billowing into the air just a few km's away. We could tell there had to be a huge fire in Stittsville. We went home to see that only one street over, on the other side of the school, there were two homes completely engulfed in flames and the siding was gone from a third home. The damages are estimated to be at the 1 million dollar mark. It made our talk with the firefighters hit home with the kids.
All in all, it was quite a day.