On the morning of Riley's birthday, Adam and my 2 sisters ran a 10-mile race called Goldy's Run. It was a beautiful course through the University of Minnesota campus and along the Minneapolis River Walk, ending with a jaunt down the tunnel of TCF Bank Stadium where they could watch themselves cross the finish line on the jumbo tron--the third-largest scoreboard screen in college football. It was pretty inspiring to watch them when we found them mid-race to cheer them on and proudly cheered them across the finish line as well. Hopefully if the stress fracture in my knee ever heals, I can join them for the next one.
Here is Laura, coming to give us high fives when we found her mid-race.
Adam and Leah were just a little ways behind her hanging together since this was Leah's first long race. We almost missed them the first time around, and the kids were extremely disappointed so we quick drove a mile ahead and caught up to them again. After not seeing them the first time, Conor was especially excited to cheer them on and give them high fives when we found them again. Check out the sheer joy on his face!
Running along with them for a few steps...I just think this is a cool picture of them all reaching out to each other.
Next we went to the finish line on the field, where we met up with Carmen, Andy and Andy's mom to watch the racers finish. The kids found ways to entertain themselves while we waited....and then
Here comes Laura!!!!!!!
See her finish on the big screen
And here come Adam and Leah!!!!
See their finish
The Benedict Family
Way to go you three. We are so proud of you!!!
Your biggest little fans
We had moved to the other side of the finish line and Conor was looking all over for us, once he found us he kept waving the rest of the way to the finish line....he looked like a famous person waving to his fans!! too cute.
He was super excited about the blue powerade drink at the end of the race.
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