…the most people patting their heads and rubbing their tummies at the same time for a full minute!
It happened today at my school and I’m so excited I was able to take part in making history!
The previous record was held at 872 people. This morning, we had 1002 participants as we smashed the old record!
Yes, it was official. We had multiple official witnesses along with an adjudicator from Guinness World Records to record the event.
My cousins and uncle and aunt in Minnesota recently sent me a copy of the 2011 book for my birthday. I had never seen the book before and I had so much fun reading all of the amazing records recorded.
And now, just a few weeks later.. I took part in a record-breaking event that will soon be a part of the next book!!! Yeah!!!
This past weekend I ran in the Junior Carlsbad 1 mile race for my 3rd year in a row. I think this might be one of my favorite races. It is so exciting and there are so many kids running.
I love it.
As always, I get my usual nerves right before the race, but then they all disappear as soon as the horn sounds.
At the start, there was a boy running next to me. He got out ahead of me about 10 feet. We were the two leaders of the race. I passed him after our first turn and then managed to lead for the rest of the race. I finished with a time of 5:49.
My little sister also competed this year. She is 6 and she ran in a 1/2 mile race. She gets a little overwhelmed by all the people so I offered to run with her after my race was finished. This made her happy and I had fun running with her, too. She did great! She came in 7th place 🙂
On Sunday, I went back to run in the Carlsbad 5000 for my first time. It was so fun. I saw a LOT of my Roadrunners teammates there along with some other kids from school. This was my third 5K race and I was hoping to beat my previous time of 20:07 from the Bumblebee 5K in December. I felt strong throughout and came in at 19:53. Yeah! I was really proud of myself.
One of the things my mom always asks me is what was going through my head while I was racing. And I always tell her the same thing. I was either humming a song or absolutely NOTHING was going through my head.
At the Junior Carlsbad event, there was a live band of young kids. As we were walking by I heard them perform a cool song that I had never heard before and really liked. I asked my dad what it was and he said it was “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne. The band singing it was a local band called Zip Zap.
Cool. I immediately decided I wanted to add the song to my iPod.
That ended up being the song going through my head during the races 🙂
…the most people patting their heads and rubbing their tummies at the same time for a full minute!
