Race Number 2

On Friday before we headed off to Maryland we made it to the last race of the year for the running club. The boys were very excited and Carter decided he could run it himself (at first he wanted Justin to run with him). Right at the start of the race is started raining. Once the horn sounded we headed over to the finish line to watch them finish. We noticed that Tyler seemed to be in the back as we were walking over and we knew there was a kid pile up right at the beginning but we weren't sure if he was involved in it or just stopped and waited until all the kids got out of his way. When he came to the finish line though we saw he was most definitely involved in the pile up. His face was all cut up with blood running down his face. As soon as he crossed the finish line he started crying, but was fine after he got a drink. We found out he had tripped over a kid who fell and then over kids fell on top of him. However he quickly got up and finished with no problems. He finished only 5 seconds slower than he did the first race coming in 9th out of 30 kids. We were very proud. Carter did awesome as well. He ran the whole thing by himself and he fell once but got up and finished it with no problems (it was a very little fall). He finished 21st and came in at 5 minutes 41 seconds - much faster than his first race.  We are so proud of our boys for doing their best even when they fell down.