Jog-A-Thon

The kids came home a while back with a form to collect pledges for the schools first annual Jog-A-Thon. They needed sponsors to pledge an amount for each lap that they ran. If they collected $25 in pledges they would get a cool T-Shirt. I hate hitting up friends and family for stuff like this (they do have one more week to collect pledges though just to let you know) So I decided to pledge $1.00 per lap for each kid. For some reason I thought that they would be running around a normal sized track and in the back of my head I thought, OK the kids will run for 1 hour so I think they could at max run around a normal sized track about 6-8 times. Well this morning was the big event, and while I was getting ready the thought hit me that elementary schools don't have a normal sized track, then I thought....Oh no!! They are going to be running laps around the gym! And I pledged $1.00 per lap!!! They are each going to run like 50 laps! I was trying to figure out a way to get out of paying my pledge, or at least changing to $0.25 per lap as we pulled up to the school. Luckily they had the kids running laps around on the playground. It was not as big as a full sized track, but it was about half that size. The kids had a lot of fun, but it was really cold and windy. I am not sure on the totals so I think that they each ran about 20 laps. Nathan even went once around with Trevor! Not to bad, I will have to pitch in the extra five to get them their shirts I guess.