Photos: Runners brave rain for Tuesday night races

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Kids and parents in the Munchkin League get ready to start their 3 kilometer course at the Bonny Sosa Tuesday Night Races at Bartlett High on September 29, 2015.

On a day when heavy rains wreaked havoc on much of Southcentral Alaska, hundreds of runners braved the weather to participate in the Bonny Sosa Tuesday Night Race Series at Bartlett High.

Starting in a waterlogged field, the course entered the woods and runners were immediately greeted by a trail-width puddle, the first of many on the muddy course.

"It was a tough course," said veteran trail runner Jason Lamoreaux. "The course has so many turns, just when you think you were done there'd be another hill to climb."

Still, most everyone was all smiles in the end, thanks in no small part to the hot chocolate that was being handed out by Steam Dot.