Run to Feed the Hungry

On Thanksgiving morning, we woke up at 6AM to participate in the Run to Feed the hungry. A really good friend of ours had posted it on their blog, and we decided that we try it out (Thanks Knudsons). We've always heard about it, but never did it. We didn't know what to expect, but we were amazed that there was over 26, 000 people who had signed up. I was surpised to see so many kids participating as well. Our older two had spent the night at their cousins, and we only had Tiare. As you can see, she wasn't very happy to be woken up to spend her morning in the cold.

Since we weren't sure of what to expect, we had only signed up Dee to run. You had the choice to run/walk the 5k or the 10k and sure enough, Dee had to challenge himself to run the 10k. Here he is stretching, wearing his shirt he was given to participate.


Dee Getting his stretch on!!!




Here is a shot of us before he left to line up. Since he signed up the day of, he wasn't given a band that would give an accurate time of how long it would take him, but he said that he had asked someone what time it was when he crossed the start mat and also the finish line and it took him 55mins to run the 10k. Good job Honey! We had a wonderful time and we are looking forward to next years run. Since we know now what to expect, I will be joining Dee. My intentions are to do the 10k, but I am sure I won't be running it all the way. I will probably be the one that will be hitching a ride to the finish line! Thanks Knudson's for sharing your family tradition with us, we are definately going to make this one of our own Thanksgiving traditions! Too bad they didn't do a run after Thanksgiving so we could work off all the food we ate!