Fun Run?

Friday night we went to the kids fun run with the Fox Cities Marathon. Fun might have been a stretch (at least for us parents by the end). The kids were very excited, though. It was at the minor league baseball stadium and the kids got to run around the infield.



The run was supposed to start at 6pm. At 6pm, they were filing people into the stands. They then had kids run around the field with a torch. Then they talked for a while about the sponsors. Then they had a mascot race. Then (6:15+) they started the toddler trot. The parents with toddlers couldn't get onto to the track because of the crowd. We were waiting in the stands - and getting impatient. Well, the kids were getting antsy:



Then finally (6:40 - maybe) they started the 1/4 mile kids run. TWELVE KIDS AT A TIME!! There were like 500 kids in the stands. OMG. We were near the top of the stands and so finally we snuck down another aisle - pushed through a crowd of older kids waiting for the 1/2 mile run - and gave them a shove out onto the track. Quite literally. Our friends Kim and Todd were there with their girls - Natalie and Gillian - so Kim and I went and sent all the kids together.

Then we made a mad dash to the other side of the stadium because the kids leave from 3rd base - run the stadium - and then exit at first base (they pass home plate area twice). We pulled them from the melee at the other side with their medals and left for dinner. 7:10pm.



Here are the kids with thier medals. They had fun. We will not be signing them up for that again next year, however. And yes - Allison ran in a dress