My arms hurt!

Since I'm going to be pushing Larsson and Nora in the double jogging stroller for the Marion Village 5K road race this Saturday, I figured I better get some practice in. So this morning, instead of getting up super early and running by myself, I got them out of bed, took care of potty needs, put sweaters on over their pajamas, gave them a drink and a snack for the road, put them in the double stroller and left for our training run at 7:30 am. I took the digital camera so that I could document some of the sights on our course.

Larsson is quite a talker so I knew I couldn't listen to my audiobook (Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke) like I usually do. Instead, this is what I heard:
"Where is all this traffic coming from?!"
"Those are daisies!"
"Can I pick them?"
"What does 'wild' mean?"
"There's a rabbit!"
"Why are you stopping?"
"That is corn growing over there!"
"That sign says 'Stop ahead'!"
"Why aren't we going that far?"
"Why are we turning?"
"This is a quiet road."
"Oh no! Nora's hat!"
"Why aren't I running?"
"When is our race?"
"Am I going to sleep over GrandmaGrandpa's?"
"What are those flowers?"
"They are yellow like my marigolds."
"Do coyotes live over there?"
"Coyotes live in woods and fields."
"Oh look! A cute kitten!"
"I drank all my drink."
"I saved some goldfish for Nora."
"Am I going to see anything interesting?"
And on and on and on.

One of the reasons I was stopping was to take a few pictures. Here are a few of the views we enjoyed:
A glimpse of Cayuga Lake as we went down the big hill

Corn growing in a field on our left

Grapevines from a local winery

A donkey at the next corner

A scenic stream on our way up the big hill

And our cow friends once we got to the top of the hill

(They were looking again but none of them wanted to come close to the fence.)

I don't know why I didn't take a picture of the kids in the stroller but I didn't.

And we finished in 41 minutes 30 seconds, partly because of taking pictures but mostly because it is hard to push the stroller with the kids in it uphill. With 22 pounds of stroller, 35 pounds of Larsson and 20 pounds of Nora, my arms are sore! I hope things are easier on the flat course in Marion.