Our family did the Run for the Pumpkin race this year, and it was so much fun! The kids were really excited to be doing it, and it was a gorgeous, hot morning.
The race was 2km, which I knew would be really far for the kids, so I was planning on 'skipping unnecessary parts'. As it turns out Tanner is a running machine. He ran fast almost the entire way and didn't want to miss any of the flags. I carried Hattie a good portion of the race. When I would set her down she would start running in front of us, but Tanner would have none of that and would start running really fast to make sure she wouldn't beat him. They both did fantastic! We did it in under 20 minutes (by seconds :) and came in about 150 out of 165. As they crossed the finish line they got a bag of candy, ribbon, chips, and a pumpkin. Possibly the best way to finish a race!
Larry raced next in the 6km race. He actually did killer awesome and came in with college and university track teams still behind him. The kids loved running around the race track and waiting with water and high fives for their dad.
This is definitely a race we will be running again in the future!
so cute!! your kids are getting so big!!
ReplyDeleteso fun. We wanted to let the kids do a race this fall but could never get our schedules to work. I'm super jealous!!
ReplyDeletefun! way to be tanner! hattie looks awesome with the red face!
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