This past weekend, Kaiden, Koen and I drove to Latrobe, Pennsylvania to compete in a CPE trial. It had two runs on Friday and ten runs on Saturday and Sunday – twelve in all! We are trying to get our forty qualifications so that we can attend the CPE Nationals in May. When we went out there – we had twelve total.

The past week, my knee became swollen and I iced it every night. It would go down – and swell by the end of the day. On Thursday, when I had my private lesson with my instructor, my hamstring acted up on the last sequence. OUCH!!

Knowing I had an upcoming trial – I iced the hamstring and did some rolling on the hard tube as well as some stretches. I was hoping for the best!

Well, it went out again on Saturday. Enough to where I was going to cry in the middle of the run (except you just don’t do that… so I sucked it up!!). My little boy, though, was a real trooper! He looked back and “knew” something was not right… kept his eyes on me and listened.

Kaiden ran the best he could in light that I wasn’t… he did everything I asked of him. At one point, I was two jumps behind and he turned his head as to ask – what’s next? As he was turning his head, I realized I had not said anything and said “tunnel.” His response… “Got it!” and off he went.

Kaiden was SPECTACULAR this weekend!! We ended up going 12 for 12 – a perfect weekend! He also came in second for “High in Trial!” (we were second due to time… which was on me mostly because I couldn’t run).

I am so proud of my little boy!