Rick DeKeon was
a well-loved Northside Elementary physical education teacher who died last year. In his memory, Ann Arbor Rec & Ed decided to hold a 5K run, with the proceeds going to raise scholarship funds for Rec & Ed activities.
I got my son Joel to run with me! (Well, not really with me. He's much faster than me--but he did join me at the 5K.)
The whole thing sounded like a great idea when we signed up on a warm fall day. A few weeks later...brrr!
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Here we are with our medals. It was cold out! We didn't hang around to chat! Photo by unknown runner. |
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Here I am with Rec & Ed Director Jenna Bacolor, right after I finished. I know! My hair! (I should have kept the hat on...) Photo by Madeline Bacolor. |
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Although they attributed the idea of this medal to Rick DeKeon, in my experience this is also a typical Rec & Ed medal: "Everyone is a winner." Photo by Ruth Kraut
*Thanks, school board member Glenn Nelson, for being a sponsor of the run. That was a nice thing to do.
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