We did the Human Race again this year and had a great turn out! We had 25 people on our Dierzen Dinos team with people from school & their families. We wore the same Batman shirts from last year and made a few more too! It was Elliott's first race ever and she did a great job - she slept the whole time! Dylan got pulled in the wagon by all the boys - he had so much fun he wanted to "do it again" right after he finished! Shelly got 3rd in her again group (repeat from last year) so she got a medal!! Drew and Dylan had their picture taken by the Northwest Herald and were in the paper!
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Shelly, Ryan and I decided that we really wanted to do a 5k in Santa suits this year and we found one in Crystal Lake! The Santa suites were hilarious - and my baby bump kept popping out! We went very slow and walked probably about a mile of the race but we had a lot of fun!
Laura and I signed up for the Human Race and invited all of our students to do it with us - each of us actually had a few families come which was great! We ended up raising over $400 for Turning Point! We also made some super cool Batman shirts to wear! My Mom and I both got 2nd place in our age groups & Shelly got 3rd place in her age group! We rocked it!
On February 7th we had a crazy race back in Lake Geneva and it was ridiculous! It was a small trail race but there was SO much snow on the ground that it was hard to walk it, let alone run! My time was HORRIBLE but I ended up being the 3rd girl overall and first place in my age group! Amy also won her age group! Shelly & Ryan were supposed to run it with us but they ended up getting really lost and couldn't make it. We all spent a little time in Lake Geneva looking at ice sculptures and going out to brunch after the race! Our fans were awesome!
The family did this race last year as well, so it was fun to do the same one again! This time we got EVERYONE involved! We even made the most adorable turkey shirts so we would all match. A lot of people loved them and we would yell "turkey power" every time we saw each other on the road! We really like doing this race since a lot of the money raised goes to Hospice in McHenry County <--they are amazing!!
Thanksgiving was FREEEEEZING! Luckily they changed check-in to be in the high school so everyone didn't have to stand outside (that would've sucked). Drew was planning on pushing Dylan in the stroller for the race - Dyl even had his own bib and everything - but it was miserably cold and Dylan was sobbing so they took a nap in the super warm van while we ran :) We had me, Genna & Steve (and his sister), Shelly & Ryan, Mom & Dad (he did great, he even jogged a little but his chip didn't work). Sammi was super sick so she couldn't come :( I had an awesome race!! I felt great! Genna & I ran together for almost the whole race. I didn't think there was ANY chance that I would place in my age group since there are SO many people that run the race, but I got second place! I actually really like this race because it is super boring, you run 1.55 miles and then turn around and run back - BUT I love seeing all the people that are ahead of me come back around! The girl that beat me in my age group beat me by only one second!! (It was chip timed so obviously she started way in front of me otherwise I would've beat her haha!) Results below:
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