meaning of 'hashiri ni hashirimashita'?


What is a good translation of 'hashiri ni hashirimashita'?

I'm familiar with the general masu-stem-ni-iku construction: kai ni iku, "go
in order to shop" - but this sounds like "run in order to run", which sounds
strange.

This is from "stories you can read in 10 minutes - first grade". A hare and
hedgehog are racing, and the hedgehog keeps tricking the hare, and the hare
wants to race over and over.

A Japanese friend said it is something like "to run over and over", but that I
could not make my own constructions i.e. "mi ni miru", so I am missing
something.

(btw I don't have kanji - it's a first grade book - mostly kana).

