On the left, Daniel in all three pictures from top to bottom.
On the right, Grandfather Darnell Williams and
David from top to bottom.
The Hershey Blaze XC group allows kids of all age groups an opportunity to continue their training into the fall and even compete in several meets. This season begins in September and goes into early November. Like our track & field program, Hershey Blaze Cross Country is designed to introduce kids to distance running by providing an experience that is fun, competitive, social, and informative about the sport.
Cross country races are trail runs across several types of terrain at distances of 2,000m (1.2 miles) for kids 8 years old and under; 3,000m (1.9 miles) for kids 9 through 12 years old; 4,000m (2.5 miles) for kids 13 and 14 years old; and 5,000m (3.1 miles) for 15 year olds. The primary events that Hershey Blaze runners compete in are the Healthy Kids Running Series and the USATF XC Junior Olympic Series. Hershey Blaze athletes have been highly successful and have qualified to compete at the top level.
Saturday Oct. 31, 2015 at Hershey
This is David in 30 Degree Weather, running the 2K in Hershey on Oct. 31, 2015. He did not finish and Mother Stephanie had to carry him most of the way. He did not want to run.
This is David trying to explain how Daniel's race ended.
Daniel came in 5th out of 5 Hershey Blaze runners on Saturday October 31, 2015. His time was 25 Minutes 45 seconds.
Sunday Nov. 1, 2015 5K Hero Run at Swatara Harrisburg Mall
Daniel ran this run with a Gun Time of 25 minutes, 45.6 seconds. The ten year old Chip Time was 45 Minutes, 44.4 Seconds. They had over 600 people registered for this race but only 221 runners finished. Daniel was 109th to finish. In his age group he finished 8th. He ran in the 9 -- 12 year old group.
http://www.motiontiming.com/sites/default/files/2015_HERORUNResults.pdf
SWATARA TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT 2015 -
5K HERO RUN INDIVIDUAL RESULTS above
David's Amazing run
But the amazing person that ran was David. Stephanie decided not to go to the XC meet. His father Damine took us to the mall to get their registration packages and prepare for the race.
The first thing we had to do was get Daniel to the starting line and get him off. Then it was David's turn for the one mile run while Daniel was running his 5K.
I did not expect David to want to run. I did not think that Damine thought he would run either. So I got behind David on the starting line expecting after a quarter mile, he would stop and walk back.
When the horn went off, I took one step, looked up and not only was David down the street but he was leading everyone else. I still thought that he would "die." So I did not speed up. But next thing I knew, he was out of sight. I started getting a little worried.
Damine caught up with me and asked, where was David. I did not know and Damine went on a head of me looking for him. I stopped and went to the finish line. Sooner or later he was going to show up.
David was running his race. I looked down to the opposite end of the mall and saw Damine but no David. Damine walk down to me and told me that David was in the mall on his last leg of the race. So I waited and sure enough, he came out the other end of the mall and ran toward the finish line running just as strong and focus as he started.
His father Damine said to David, "Come on in the mall, I will buy you anything you want!" In the last 5 years, I never heard Damine say that to David. He spent almost $50 on David. It looks like I am not the only person impressed.
David Tulloch is in Kindergarden at Paxtonia Elementary but he stepped up his play today!
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