Ka-PoW Superhero Adventure Race

Saturday, the Town of Gilbert sponsored the Ka-PoW Superhero Adventure Race at Freestone Park! Holy Guacamole Batman! Was it Fun!

I found some costumes for the girls through friends and family, got myself a Superman shirt, Brandon a Captain America shirt, and Oliver something in red, white and blue. After dressing everyone up, we headed in the car to the park. The girls had NO idea what we had planned, they just knew it involved costumes, and costumes are always good!

When we got there, and got Melanie and myself registered, we started having fun. First, they were taking free pictures of the runners in front of a green screen. I snuck Noelle into the picture (with their permission) and got a fun souvenir with the three super girls along with a few other super heroes. I don't have a good scanner, so it's not posted. Then we took some pictures with the cut out superheroes. I couldn't pass up a picture with Superman. Brandon and Oliver make a great Captain Americas, don't you think?Grandma Traci came to watch the event and got this great picture of the whole super family!

Then the girls bounced in the bounce houses! Eventually it was time for some running. First up: Noelle in the Flash Dash.

She went over!

She went across!

And She went through!

I'm so proud of her! She did a great job!

Then we went over to the start of the "big race". We got there just in time. Melanie has the cutest, silliest little run you have ever seen. I just love it. It has character!

There were several obstacles on our 1 mile "Wolverine Run". Here was the line up of the obstacles Melanie and I encountered:

Superman's Tower (a large superman bounce house complete with it's own obstacles inside and a slide to get out)

Wonder Woman's Wall ( a 6 foot tall wall, that we went under instead of over... because we are small super heroes. We may not be able to fly, but we can blast through walls, right?)

Wolverine Wash (shown in the below picture).

The Aquaman Slide (a huge slip and slide down the side of one of the hills at Freestone Park).

Spiderman's Web Crawl (a rope web that we had to crawl under to "escape")

Captain America Tunnels (long tunnels made of large plastic pipe)

Back through the Wolverine Wash...

Over the He-Man Mountain (a large pyramid haystack)

and through the Finish Line!

Here we are approaching the finish.

We Made it!

I'm so proud of Melanie. 1 mile is really really far for someone so small. She started strong, got tired and thirsty right off. Walked, Ran super fast, walked, Ran even faster, rinse and repeat. She was cracking me up. She'd stop running, and tell me she was tired, so I would tell her we can walk. Walking is okay. She'd take a few steps and then say "okay, let's run!" At one point, she asked me if we could lay in the grass for a while. I had to tell her no. I had a flash back of my marathon, and my desire to lay down. I told her we can always walk. 5 seconds later she saw the gigantic slip and slide and was off running again. I'm so impressed by her. She did the whole thing and was ready to bounce in the bounce house as soon as she was done.

Since it was a Superhero Adventure Race, there was a booth devoted to the up and coming comic book convention. The people manning that booth were definitely acting the part. We couldn't pass up a photo op. Not pictured are Batman and Batgirl. I'm not sure were they went off to, but I'm really pretty happy with the picture I got. Tell me this isn't awesome!

Way to go Noelle and Melanie! Both of you ran your first races and did an amazing job! Mommy is SO proud of you!!!