Running!

This Labor Day our family decided to run a race on the spur of the moment. No training per se, just healthy folks out for fun!

Rise and shine for 7:45am start time.

Macey warming up with Dan.

We were divided up in 3 categories. Macey, Ryan and I ran the 1K Fun Run first. Alex and Dan started their races at the same time following our race, but Alex went 5K and Dan 5 miles.

Macey was a determined runner. She would sprint and then walk and then sprint and then walk; no gentle jogging for that girl! Ryan walked a lot too. Guess these kids could use some endurance training! But they did their best and didn't quit and I'm proud of them for their efforts.

Us 1K-ers had to wait while the other two ran their race. We cheered on the runners. And played games at the sponsor stations.

Macey even took a post handing out medals for a time.

Alex finished 5th in his category (I know it says four, but the overall winner of the race was in his division and finished in 17:45. Yikes, that was amazing and fast!) Alex says after he runs track at school he'll be trained and he'll do better. Also, he could find a race that that fast kid isn't running in, and then he could finish better! Considering he didn't prepare for the race and that he didn't really want to run it, but we signed him up anyway, I think he did amazing!

Dan the Man came in 2nd place in his division. This is amazing when you consider he walked in the door from his Phoenix vacation at 12:30am. Proud of this guy and his healthy body!

It was a super fun way to finish off 'summer'.