Elon Elementary Turkey Trot

The kids and dad ran in the Elon Elementary Turkey trot on 11/15.  Unfortunately I missed the kids portion of the race.... because ya know, gotta work and it's a 15-20 minute drive.  I wanted Anthony to do the three mile run, but due to the enjoyable temps Dad decided he would just have the kids do the one miler.  It was a lovely 25 degrees.  I got there just in time to see Jayna finish.  Anthony and Will cheered her on and told her "Sprint Jayna, Sprint!" and she told.  Clearly she's learned something from 3 months of cross country.  Anthony was all sweaty but happy and Jayna was looking like she was miserable.

Poor J was trying to smile....

Then we went to the finish line for the 5k to wait for Poppy.  And while we waited we made friends with "Bobby".... better known as "Lilly Jr".

Lily Jr watching the 2nd place runner

And then a bit quicker as I just finished taking the above picture.... this

Jayna super excited--- and likely messed up dad's time by 10 seconds and Lully Jr cheering Poppy on

Poppy nears the finish line

The last two leaps to the finish line

Poppy we think set a new personal record--- even with a cute distraction just prior to the finish line.  His time was 19 mins 36 seconds.

My favorite runners

my favorite runners and their biggest fan who cheered them on

And yes, even though it was easily 15 degrees colder, my son is still brave, daring, humerous and fun.... He can't do the polar plunge but he did the polar dip.

Colder than he expected

We enjoyed the award ceremony with hot chocolate to warm up with, glazed donuts, muffins, water, bananas, apples and powerade.  Anthony won 3rd places and got a medal and a loaf of homemade pumpkin bread.  Jayna got 4 which means to award.... so I rewarded her with her favorite... Daddy finished 3rd over all.  That knocked him out of 1st in age group.  Usually dad gets 1st in age category, but this is even better.  He won pumpkin bread as well..... being it was homemade I don't even think he was disappointed about not getting a turkey when you get such a yummy homemade goody from a sweet lady from the nearby church who made the prizes.

 We hurried home, got Anthony ready for his Pathfinders church meeting.  We had enough time to stop by Sheetz and get Jayna's preferred medal of choice--- aka a slushie.