Alexi Richardson Brings Home 2nd Place in 5K Run

It may have taken several generations, but the Richardson family finally have themselves an athlete.

In her first ever 5K road race, seven year old Alexi Richardson grabbed second place in her age group last Saturday at the Cougar Classic in Evergreen, Colorado. She ran a very tough course (3.2 miles for those of you that are metrically challenged), which was completely uphill, in the terrific time of 40 minutes. And she did it without stopping at all.

Proudly wearing her Colorado Ice soccer uniform, young Alexi had to overcome several obstacles that may have added extra minutes to her time. The first one was her choice of running partner, which was her dad and Dawg Nation founder Marty Richardson. Secondly, the narrow course was so crowded with slower runners, that Team Richardson had to carve a different path around the group to get some room to run.

And then, inspired by a song in her head and the cheering of the fans along the course, Alexi pulled away from her weaker partner and sprinted across the finish line to nail down the red ribbon.

Please join Dawg Nation and everyone from all over the world that look in on the SFG blogsite to congratulate this outstanding achievement!