Travis Barker, Kourtney Kardashian ran a 5k hand in hand (exclusive)

Travis Barker gave his wife Kourtney Kardashian a helping hand – literally – when she attended his Run Travis Run 5K in New Orleans.

“I asked her, I said,“ Do you want me to keep pulling you? “And she said yes, so I could keep her going,” told the Blink-182 drummer, 49, people exclusively about the race February 7. “Our hands were really sweaty and yes, it was fantastic.”

Fitness has always been part of their connection – even when their relationship was just a friendship: “We actually got closer by training every day. We were just friends, so it’s never a matter of “Do you want to work out tomorrow?” “Barker tells people about Kardashian, 45.” It’s always like, ‘Hi, what time do we exercise? What are we doing? “

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When it comes to running, Barker tells people about her wife, “Sometimes she goes it and I just go crazy (run).” But when it came to this 5k kick-off to Super Bowl The weekend, Barker says Kourtney “had suggested she wanted to run it, so I stayed at her pace.”

“She ended up really, really good,” he says, leaving that her time was a “28-minute 5K.”

“I think it’s nice to be with someone who also shares the same passion for training, taking care of each other,” he continued, leaving that Kourtney “actually introduced me for a shaking that I just did much better. It’s a blueberry avocado smoothie.

All proceeds from Barker’s Run Travis Run The event will go to the Lafd Foundation and Anti-Recidism Coalition, in the wake of the fire fires in Barker’s native Los Angeles.

“The running community is massive and it really inspired me to create Run Travis Run as a way to unite like -minded people,” Barker Have said About his fitness initiative. “I want to motivate people to get outside and walk or run for a few hours, as well as make healthy decisions and create healthy habits.”

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