How the kids marathon works is that over the last six weeks he has been training with his school and during gym class and his marathon practices he has run a little over 25 1/2 miles. The last mile (or 1/2 mile in the case of the Kindergartners) is run on the same race course as the regular Music City Marathon- around Titans stadium, which for my sports obsessed son was like running around heaven.
It was actually a pretty amazing experience. There were over 3,700 kids participating - from 7th grade all the way to Kindergarten. It was great to see all these kids out and active and excited about running.
Here is the Kindergarten team getting ready to go.
The countdown to the start, can you tell they are slightly excited?
On your mark, get set......
GO!!!!!!My son shot out of there like a bat out of hell (that's him on the far left), taking the very early (and large) lead. Clearly, Coach Wells didn't stress pacing one's self.
Now the only bad part of this whole thing is that the finish line is on the OPPOSITE side of the staudium and by the time we got there he had already finished, so I never got to see him cross the finish line (boo) or actually run any part of the race except the beginning (boo again) but next time (Greyson has already said he wants to run it next year) we will be prepared and have multiple cameras stationed along the course.
And to make the day even more special, Greyson had a cheering section drive up all the way from Atlanta - Ms. Susanna and Mr. Keith. (OK, perhaps they drove up to run in the 1/2 marathon on Saturday but really let's be honest, they came to see Greyson run, the 1/2 marathon was just their excuse!!)
As always, we are so proud of him. Way to go Greyson!!
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