Nearly 600 runners crossed the 50-yard line at the Atlantic Heath Jets Training Center on Sunday and 8-year-old Ryan Smith of Mendham, NJ, was determined to be one of them.
Ryan participated in the second annual Turkey Trot with his mom, Tina Smith, and another mother-son duo, Ella and Leo Slayne, also of Mendham.
His goal? "Finish. Just finish."
Tina, who will be celebrating a birthday this week, said that the race was exactly how she wanted to spend her birthday with her son.
“We wanted to take our sons to the Jets facility and we wanted to have fun doing something healthy," she said.