On Friday Ethan had a race at Detweiller Park in Peoria. Every year they have these races where people run in the evening until it eventually gets dark. They start with the the kids’ fun run which is 1000M. It was very cute and they even had a few very small runners, maybe ages 3-4, where the individual children were running with parents. The open race and the rest were 3 miles, starting at 7. The boys and my niece came along.

Dad and Elianna watched from camp. It was the last night of the camp season so they had to be there more than the others. Ethan and Matt spent the past week helping out at another camp up north. On their way home from there they picked up my niece in Rochelle who wanted to come for the weekend. The kids wanted food before the race but I told them we had to wait until afterward. We found a nice spot under a tree.

The race was fun. Top 25 get a medal and he placed 24th. I thought he was trying to go for the medal but he said he was just running. I was happy and thankful. We have a cousin who was also running in the high school boys race, the last race of the night at 10PM. We were sitting by them in the early hours. I asked him if he had any goals. He said under 15:50. We didn’t stay to watch but we watched from here. He made his goal.