Gloucester Township 10-Year-Old Makes Her Mark at Broad Street Run
Allie Hauer was one of the youngest people to finish the 2012 Broad Street Run in Philadelphia.
Allie Hauer cruised across the finish line at the Broad Street Run in Philadelphia on Sunday, holding her mother's hand. Mother and daughter finished the 10-mile race in 1:47:45. Allie, 10, was one of the youngest of 34,012 finishers, according to official race results. "She wouldn't stop, she wouldn't slow down," Erika Hauer, 36, said of her daughter. "She could have kept going after that." Allie, who turned 10 on April 29, said her favorite part of the race was seeing the mass of runners gathered at the starting line of the nation's largest 10-mile run. Along the race course, people cheered on the young dynamo, and sang "Happy Birthday" to Allie as she ran past, her mother said. (Allie and her mom wore matching pink T-shirts that …
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Bryan Littel
10:31 am on Monday, April 30, 2012
Way to go Allie! See you at the finish line. more ›