Sound to Narrows - We're famous!

Here's all of us at the Sound to Narrows Race in Tacoma on Saturday, June 14th.

This picture made it in Sunday's Tacoma News Tribune. It was a very large picture and the caption reads: Kelsey Shumate (far right), 5, hides as sister Regan, 8, father Matt, cousins Tanner Shumate, 6, and Anson, 4, make faces. (They spelled Reagan wrong, but oh well.)

This was another picture that the Tacoma News Tribune photographer took. It's a picture of the diaper dash for one year olds. As you can see, they were all a bit confused. Gwyn is on the far left and next to her is my friend Tiffany's baby girl, Kate. This picture didn't make it in Sunday's paper, but it's on the Tacoma News Tribune website. It could possibly be in Thursday's paper when they post the results. 

This is the 2nd time Reagan has had her picture in the paper from this event. The first time was the first time we participated in the Sound to Narrows race in 2003. Reagan was 3 and a diaper dasher. We made it on the front page!

The day was overall a really fun day. Reagan, Kelsey, Tanner and Anson ran the 2K with their dads, Matt and Devin at 8:00 am. Jaqui and Travis ran the 5K at 8:30 am. Matt and Dacia ran the 12K at 8:45 am for Matt and 8:50 am for Dacia. Matt ran it in 56 minutes, which was better than he expected. It was a minute slower than last year, but he was sick this year and hadn't trained as well as he did last year. Dacia did excellent, taking 6 minutes off of her last 12K time! Then Alan and Stella left at 9:00 am for the 5K walk. Stella has also been sick, so it wasn't as easy as it could of been, but she's made the goal to walk the 12K in the future. Finally Gwyn and Ella ran the diaper dash, even though for Gwyn it was like a walk of total confusion. Imagine being told to run to a massive amount of people who are screaming and yelling. Eventually she saw me and smiled as she picked up the pace, but by that time she was about 10 feet in front of me. If you were wondering about me, I'll have to wait until next year to see how I'll do. To make a long story short, I ended up getting sick, even passed out for a minute or so, right before we left the house for the race. Therefore, I was feeling ill and week for most of the day and I knew that it was not possible for me to run that day. 

I'll post more pictures of this year and past races when we get back into town.