Allie's Superhero fun run!

Several weeks ago I signed the boys up to run Allie's Superhero fun run.  Allie is a kindergartener at Josiah's school who was diagnosed with a rare cancer called Ewing Sarcoma.  I don't know the family personally, but I know she is in the process of chemo treatments.  The boys were given some Easter money from Gigi, and decided to use their own money for the race.  Sweet boys!

 

Unfortunately, a monsoon has decided to sit over the entire state of Tennessee today. (Not to mention that today is the Nashville Marathon.  I couldn't imagine running that long in all this rain.  My feet would look like two big raisins.)  And, it's not just rainy, but chilly.  In the low 50's this morning.  BUMMER!  We debated on whether or not to run.  The race was at 10:00, so not super early.  The boys wanted to run, though, so off we went!

 

Before we left!  Mercy is wearing her red rain coat!

Before the race in the Algood Middle School gym

We have a good number of teenagers from church who go to Algood Middle School.  Several of them were there to help out.

Go Josiah!

Ryan ran with Aedan!

Baye ran a lap with Josiah.

running in the rain

Griffin cheering on Aedan and Ryan.

Coming in on the last turn

 Videos!  You can see the thickness of rainfall in the videos. Here is Josiah!

 

Here is Aedan!

 

After the race:

As far as times go, there was no official clock.  Also, the kids just ran around the parking lot four times.  Ryan and I have measured the parking lot before out of curiousity after the Tommahawk Trot, so we know that they actually only ran around a .8 of a mile.  I'm sure Josiah didn't run a 6:30 mile, which was the time on my stopwatch when he finished.

 

With their medals:

 

All the kids!  Yes, a small turnout, but considering the rain and coldness they had a blast and loved it!  Team Allie!!!